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5 GOOD SUMMER NOVELS--A CLERICAL CHAMPION OF RUM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. SATURDAY. JULY IK 1014. THE COVRTS AND POLITICS. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED A NEW BROOKLYN NOVELIST RELIGION AND DRINK The Rev.

E. A. Wasson of Newark Stoutly Defends "a Little Wine for the Stomach's Sake," and Flays the Prohilitionisls. A Pretty Southern Story by Mrs. Reina Melcher Marquis Alice Brown Acknowledges "My Love and Mrs.

Buckrose's Latest and Other Tales. I I-otn on Their Relation by Dr. William B. Bliiell. Judicial Interpretation of Political Theory" (Putnam), by Dr.

William ''ennett Blstell, is a study of the relationship of the courts to the American party system. It Is the series of lectures which the author declared at the Illinois College of Law, four yearn -go, and the seventy-two chapters cover thoroughly the whole subject. The book's publication at the present rroment, when the question of New York State politics and the governor- rlilp Is imminent, Is timely, and polltl- icAl orators, especially, would do well to study It. GALILEO'S SCIENCE, nalllleo's long unfamiliar to English readers In ther entirety, have been translated from the Italian and Latin Into English by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio, under the tttle, "Two New Sciences." The book is published by Macmlllan. There Is a minimum of note and comment to the matter of Oallllco.

wnicn Is indeed, tne earnest Mildred was a social climber, and she HAT Jehovah and Jesus, that a. ,,.1 that the primitive church and the church Fathers, that the medieval church, that all the Fathers of the Information -Lu-thev, Calvin, Knox and the Anglican divines as well as such pious followers of theirs as John Bunyan and the author of "Swiss Family Bobinson," used alcoholic beverages Uo- Tha followlns boeka have ben raoelv tl Tha Brl durlns pM Tlwy marlta and promptly aa poaalbla. FICTION. "Th Lights Ara Brlfht." by Louis. Kn-nJy Mable, author of "Tha Wlnga ot Prld." I Harper Bros.

1 'Faith TrMtllan." by EMn Phlllpots. (Mae. mlllan Company). "Mana." by tha Baronaas von Hiitttn. tu.

Applaton aV MISCELLANEOUS. "Our Mexican Confllcti," by tha t. Ttinmat o. wreaory. (Hearst International Library i Company.) Report.

Board of Education. State of Con nectlcut. 1S1J. "UaDtttm." by Philip Maura. (Mortan Scott.

I-ondon.) Juvenile Courta and Probation, by Bernard Flemer and Holer N. Baldwin. (Lentury Company.) The Training of a PoroMef," by Olfford Plnohot. i J. B.

Llppmcott educating me i niia fc by Bin "The Art ot Being Alive." by Ella Wheeler Wllloox. tHarper Broe.) "How to Play Ball," a manual for Bora, by John J. Mrtlraw. (Harper A Broe.) Hm 1'nivemity Library: "William Morrla. bv A.

nutton-Hroolc, "The Ware Between England and America." by Theodora Clark? Smith: -Sei." bv Patrick Oaddea and J. Arthur Thomson; "The Grotrth o( mrT i and Ml Tlmei. by Grace E. Hadow. (Henry Ho" "Shall I Drink?" by Joaeph H.

Creek (The niirrtm Prena. Chicago. I A dlculon of the drink problem, baee.i on tba reiulla of recent scientific Investigation ervatlon," by Richard W. Muller. M.Li, mm- lain R.

Jenklna Co. New jork.) "How to MJke a Country Place." by Dlllawav Sawver. Kirange, Judd ompany Nw York. An account of the iucoeeeee and the mlitake of an amateur of thirty-five yar or farming, building and development. Plana are augncated for aecurlng a home and an independent Income, aumltig with a amau capital.

"Religion and by the Rev. E. A. Waon. Ph.

IV. rector of St. Stephens F.plnco- pal Church. Newark. N.

i. (ourr rnnum Houe. New York.) "The People'a Law," an addreaa by William Jennlnga Bryan. In which are dlscuaeed the Initiative, rererenoyim ana rvciui, tlona, education and labor. AUTHORS AND offered rr- Wasson as (in Its Communion mantling them ln the worship offered pronouncing wine to I.e a holy Him) and approved, commended, and (1) lnVoKiK to "bless to a certain extent commanded their alm pnn, tity" It.

This Church is fur-use all this and more is deduced by ther declared to requiro of its hoye on dynamics and the first systematic stonhen's Koiscoual Church, New-work on the strength of material. The st; 8 trielnalwas first published in 163S. I. ln his book, just published, and the four chapter, or "days treni I lilt' irnininiiuc yjhivii oyim mnmn i'. fnr to fracture, of the cause of cehe- slon, of motion and ot projectilos.

There Is an appendix which contains theorems nnd demonstrations concerning the centers of gravity of solids. The typographical form of the book Is excellent. The pages are made up to represent, as nearly as possible, the Italian original. It will Interest physicists in particular, and ln general all who are pleased to see old writings brought before the public of the present day. THEIR WAYS dents of philosophy, and to encourage original work in the fields that Nietzsche exnlored.

I inomiun iv. rumens, mo i weuut-vu Century Uncle Remus," whose books anlmal atorlcs for uttle folk hav() al- ready sold upward of 100.000, has had so many calls to give talks before women's clubs, nature clubs, that he con- well written and highly enjoyable. True Amateurs of the Drama, An excellent book for boys and one in which many srownuus would un doubtedly find plessant reading, ts The Barnstormers," by Max Aley, I ublished by Charles Scrlbner'a Sons. Jt Is an account of the dramatic er-lorts of four boys calling themselves ine uarnstormers, who produced "Zara," "Blanca" and "Rupert, the Red Ranger," ln Barnvllle, which, since those days, baa gone back to Its original purpose, a storage place for hay and a home for cattle. The author dedicates the book to the three who, with himself, formed the original ciub, and though, in their boyhood, they were great Thespians, not one of them now has the slightest connection lth a theater.

"The Barnstormers" first score a success with "The Cap tive of Coe-tile." Then they try "Blanca." taken from Louisa M. Alcott's "Comic Tragedies," and so freat Is their success with this that they are asked to play It at a weekend house party before the guests of Mrs. Cawdor MacAnnaly, snd they r.ctually get Into print. Their final I und greatest hit of all Is "Rupert, the Red Ranger," written by "Bob," one of the Bamstormers, the full text of which Is given In the book. A Love Story of the Veld.

Miss F. E. Mills Young has written another strong love story with the English settlements in South Africa as the scene. This author's "Myles Calthorpe, I. D.

was a novel of much power; her latest work is of equal merit. It is called "The Purple Mists," and its heroine is Euretta Monkswell, a girl who had lived nearly all her life around the great silences of the veld, and into whose life came John Shaw, physician, just at the time, acting as an assistant for the resident man of medicine. Shaw became strongly attracted to the girl and when the epidemic of typhoid broke out ln the dorp, Euretta volunteered as a nurse. Her act estranged her from her sister, and nor brother-in-law, with whom she lived, but Shaw backed her up and she went in to nurse a white man ln tho last stages of the disease whose negro wife had just died. Her heroism made Shaw love her and tin proposed.

Euretta was amazed. She told him she did not love him but he wanted the right to protect her and got it. As tho rii.r.tM'3 uift.i ratio 1.HOW11 ill- to high society, where her beauty face nnd fls-nm found manv admirers Married men made love to her and even Dysart, the man she nursed back to health and who had bad a negro wife, paid court. Shaw was wrapped up ln business, was much away from home and there were few occasions when husband and wife were together at home In true marital felicity. They misunderstood each other.

Each seemed to think the other was at fault and there finally came a day when sharp words were spoken by Shaw and Euretta, her heart breaking, left him. She went back to the veld but her brother- in-law turned her away. Dysart, who had followed her, met her when she was apparently tnout nome or menu and pursued his love-making, sue r.n. Town. where they occupied the same house but their relntionshlD did not change for the worse.

Tto Dr Bha found Euretta one day fondling her baby. She told her story truthfully and though he came with murder in his heart, he could not disbelieve her, so while Dy-1 sart, defeated ln his desires, peered unseen inrougii WIUUU, HO. her in his arms and rectaimed her. a movltii atnrv with stronar dra-: matic situations and Is writen with; much power and charm. The John Lane Company is the publisher.

A White Slave Captive in Egypt. Mary Hastings Bradley's novel, "The Palace of Darkened Windows," Is a thriller. Its scenes are laid ln Egypt, where a pretty American girl, traveling for pleasure, makes the acquaint- ine im pivaauic, ance of a young Turkish officer, CHp- tain Kerissen, who falls In love with her and resolves to win her at all costs. Arlee Beecher, the girl, has no suspicion that he is anything but honorable and trusts him so far as to go with him to visit his sister. Arrived at "The Palace of Darkened Windows," she finds herself a prisoner and at the mercy of Captain Kerissen.

She Is unable to communicate with her friends, but Billy B. Hill, a young American na-ineer. who had also fallen in lovel romance of the purest kind. lOOKLYN has been the home of a Ion list of novelists, 7 7 poets and historians, so that any new book hailing from thls borough commands local Interest. That low "The Torch Bearer" D.

Appleton by Reina Melcher Marquis, and It will be Increased by the knowledge i that the author is the wife of Don Mar- juis, whose "Danny" was so heartily enjoyed two or three years ago. "Danny," as most novel readers will recall, was predominantly a book of ,1,8 1 humor. "The Torch Bearer." on other hand, Is a story of sentiment, enhanced by a graceful style, governed by a delicate sense of reserve, for which many a flamboyant novel would be the better, and ln Its conclusion it stands for a high ideal of womanliness which cannot be proclaimed too often. Its heroine. Sheila Caldwell, is a girl with ffn'iT.

iT-nr-i ii i Hi JXEINA MELCHER. MARQ.UI& Author of "The Torch Bearer." a. writing gift, born Into a quiet Kentucky village. Her wise old grandmother, who understood that "a career" Complicated the ordinary domestic life of a woman, tried to save Sheila for a teacher some years her senior, knowing that he would sympathize with her talent and develop It in a way which would bring happiness for both of them. But before Peter Burnett could think of marriage with his but recent pupil one of her playfellows, Theodore Kent, had won her.

Theodore was a downright, straightforward boy, without an ounce imndnnii hi a rMoUo in Hhella truly enough In his own way, but the only writing which he could think compatible with her dignity as his wife was to help him a little to make interesting the paper he had bought and was struggling to make live ln a place where no paper had ever thriven before. Of course, the time came when Sheila must write, and she did. It was after her baby came, and one day while she was writing the colored nurse maid took Ifflllilliftli iiSlIIfslllltlili Chat About What the Writers Are Doing, Where They Are Going and What They Mean to Write Next, as Their Publishers See It iinipiftiw, vAvvi.unu ivliuic nlbltton or rum in "j' the autumn. Two new titles in his pop- Starting on a voyage, he gratefully nc-ular "Bedtime Story Books" will be is- 'ceptod a supply of wine and ale. sued in September by Little, Brown Thomas Coko, the first Bishop of "the Adventures of Mr.

Mocker" Methodism, complains in his Journal and "The Adventures of Jerry Musk- thieving sailors had abstracted rat." Imindrv "bottles of excellent old rum" the Rev u- Wasson, rector ot Hclicion and Drink." It purports to be an unbiased examination 01 tne liihlo and of Church history ln this Held. Whether his conclusions are jus- titled or not, the book has this merit that all the evidence is clearly set forth, with its sources plainly lmli-catea; so that anyone can toe and judne for himself. It is startling to be told that the first act of Jesus' public ministry was the making nnd serving alcoholic wine and that his last act, on the cross, was the drinking of alcoholic wine. Again, can it be true that i.to ii.lrA run a. nrlvnto llll t.uumi mm mo a V.

a unlni-Arl nlCO- 1 Drewery, mm itmi holic urink to rank next to the Lords Prayer and a good heart as a solace In trouble? Equally startllns are the drinking habits and drinking principles that the writer Imputes to the Fathers of Methodism. If his citations are correct, John Wesley pronounced alcoholic wine "one of the noblest cordials in nature." He gave up its use Indeed for two years, in his early ministry, as an act of self-denial. But as soon as he found that people mistook his motive, supposing his teetotallsm to be a matter of principle, Wesley of principle: was not a of. 'quire abstinence." And ho continued "Christianity, ne wu, tne Use of alcoholic wine ami ui w-'oi POr(1inB to Dr. Wasson) to the end ot long life His brother, Charles likewise The Uev.

George whitefl'eld, the greatest of Methodist preachers severely denounced the pro- 'that his friends had given hi in. Bishop Francis Asbury, the I ather of Anmn- lean Aieinoaism, is qumwi -j son 89 leacimiK in o. proper to drink, but not to excess. JULY MAGAZINES The leading editorial ln the North American Keview for July Is from the pen of Coe Harvey and Is entitled, "Greetings to Our Colonel." Spencer Clark writes on "A l'erennini national Problem," the ever overflowing Mississippi. The situation in Colorado set forth by Governor E.

M. Amnions, while "The Real Mexican Problem" Is discussed by Roland G. Usher. "Homo Rule and After" discusses the situation ln Ireland nnd ls by F. P.

Jones. "Must the Church Adopt Christian Science Healing?" by the Rev. J. Wlnthrop Hegeman and the Rev. Dr.

Randolph M. McKlm's "What Christian Science Reully Toaches" gives the view of two churchmen on this much discussed subject. Lipplncott's for July offers a complete novel, "Northborough Cross," by L. Copo Cornford, a distinguished Brit ish author. This is a "buried treasure story of a new tvpe.

The scenes are laid In a staid English village. Owen Oliver contributes a short story entitled, "The Wisdom of Folly," Thomas Grant Springers offering Is I "Babes In the Woods." "That Bloom-1 lug Azalea," hy Agnes Edwards, has aj subtly humorous touch and may help I to solve a vexing problem that Is both- i erlng more than one woman. A I out-1 munal Execution, Dy rancis jamea MacBcath, is tragic without be ng crewsome or horrlblo, Philanthropist," by Lucy Coplngor, Is a funny yarn about a tough schoolboy and his teacher, who displays a distinctly feminine trait. Yale Review for July contains: and tlon, 1 trial this too, the the for Is tho no the the tho or 1 1 I i a to Samuel Hopkins Adams, author of I u-m. .111 the early part of the summer at nis nome i In Auburn revising the proofs' of his new novel, The Clarion, unicn, will be published ln October.

In July be will have as guest for a few days' I fishing Mr. Ferris Greenslet of the firm of Houghten, Mifflin Co. The proper count for naval salutes a subject which has lately proved of In- ternatlonal Interest Is often, says Ad T. Manarli ln Uis autobiography, From Sail to Steam," a serious mat- ter. "Gun for gun is diplomatically as imnnrtunt as an eye for an eye." He i 't anecdote how once, when he was a young officer about to fire a national salute to a port, his captain provided himself with a number of bean8 wnjch ha put h(s pockoti v.

41 DiiiLiniB vl ueau lu 1110 uuiui (luvncv "mi eacn gun in oraer to Keep count, wnon I finished he called to me: 'You have only fired twenty 'No, I replltd, he repeated, for I have a bean 'All I returned, and I banged an appendix; after which, upon counting, It was found that the captain had twenty -two beans and the French twentv-two a-nns a 'fleer' which I hone twenty-two guns tiger wmcn nope they appreciated, but am sure they did not Algot Lange, author of "In the Amazon Jungle," recently published by the Putnanis, has acquired a piece of territory on the Upper Moju, Brazil. Along with the ownership of the land go responsibilities of an unusuul order. Mr. Lange writes he will have under his protection a colony of Ararandewara Indians there resident, me author of i the baby to some shanties, where helscarcel audible. His Jailer heaped contracted scarlet fever.

In her suf- i Petty ln8Ulte upon him dally. During ferlng the mother vows to abandon nls walks In the open air the author her writing If her child is spared, a sa.y,s.:,, vow which caused her many a pang Miles always walked with htm and after Eric had grown to be a sturdy I Permitted an occasion of this boy. And there was always Peter. 1 t0 without directing at his Peter and the gift went together, while help es Prlsoner Personal Insults so other husband and the gift were antago-1 that Davis cut his nlstlc. That Is a situation from which snrt to be rid of his tormentor, melodrama and tears have been drawn I A favorite pastime of his jailer was to by many a novelist, but Mrs.

Marquis admit crowds of vulgar sightseers and 1 curtmifl ro- Whlli-lleld. and As-I'iliy not l' ronnwil in tin nwiui'tTMup ot any church tho Ucr.i.mui.ai.m that they founded. "Kellgion and IMiiik" quotes plentifully from "rilKi'iin's I 'rocrcss" to that the pilKimiM were cheered und Invigorated on ihcir way to Um Celestial City by alcoholic "ine and spirits. The Episcopal Church is quoted hy girls, nelnre coming to comiruia- to learn nnu oeuevo mai mu strengthens and refreshes the body. nr.

Wasson ascribes the incre.ising t0B present day to indus- changes rather tnan to me lom- perance propaganda He rites Gov ernment figures to show thnt with tho growing temperance the use of drink there is at the same time. In country, an Increasing pt capita consumption: ami predicts that these tendencies, if continued, will result In everybody's drinking nnd nobody's getting drunk. Ho declares, that tho Government figures for divorce nnd for church membership in old time prohibition Slates ot Maine, Kansas and North Dakota indicate that prohibition Is Injurious to fjjmily nnd church. For the period 1S87-1H06 Maine had 1 divorce to ti marriages; Kansas, 1 to 0: North Dakota, 1 to 10; whnrens the ratio for entire country was 1 to and wide-open New Jersey 1 to 45, tho best in tho country. Maine nnd Kansas aro also declared to bo very deficient ln tho matter of church membership.

But the unklndest cut of all tho author's declaration that missionaries from tlio "dry" sections regularly swarm the great "wet" centers for contributions to keep their "dry" religion alive! He concludes what may be called evidence from the texts with this sweeping and bold request, which will doubt be promptly taken up: To name one single leader ln tho Church i.oti, not a proiesseo asceuu, throughout tho entire history of Hovo- uuion, from the Call of Abraham to year 1800 after Christ, who ro frnined from alcoholic drink or coun- selled others to refrain from It on the flpueu otners 10 reiraiii iron ground that It was wrong. The finnl pages aim to show thnt tho rollglon of the Iilblo relies on character rftthor than coddling; and that Its Ideal is a moral senso so trained aa freely to choose the good and reject bad. It should be noted thnt In this hook word "drink" means the alcoholic beverages spoken of in the Bible nnd other alcoholic boverages no more hazardous. BIH FLY FISHING. The increasing popularity of dry fly fishing ls creating new literature for, tho disciples of luaak Walton.

The dry, lloatlng fly as an agency In tho sport of trout fishing, is a development that must be credited to our British cousins, among whom experts like V. M. Halford, Sir Kilward Grey nnd Leonard Wost are still preaching tho gospel of accurate Imitation nnd fishing up stream. But If we owe the Invention of tho dry fly to England we are not without our own authorities on Its use, somo of whom are producing' books nnd treatises on the subject that nro well worth study. The lateht contribution to tho literature of the) dry fly is George M.

L. La Blanche's mo 1 'liy1 Sons. Mr. La Urnnchn Is an experi enced fisherman who after serving his apprenticeship to tho sunken Hy wns among the first In this country to adopt thn Kngllsh method of taking trout. The book has many points of value to experienced fishermen as well as to be ginners, but lis chief Interest lies In ho author's demoiiHtratlon that tho fast flowing streams of tho Eastern ns for the float tig as the more sluggish waters the floating fly will ho necessarily sub- merged or "drowned" In fast water Is fallacy.

DANCING AS IT SHOULD BK. A(1herentll of Terpsichore will flnd explained In a volume J)lm Mm.Inv Andcn.on, "Social Todnv" (Stakes). Dum-lnir teachers of the better class are aiming educato tho public to an appreciation of good iluncliiK, free from tho vulgarity which has often characterized the tango, the maxlxe nnd all tho rest. The present, book Is a step In posed with his partner. No Need to "Rest Up" After a Colorado Vacation "THl Hi" wIhto I ran K'i f'r a vnrat.on without Iih vIiik lo ivM vln-n I fret bark." flfttil a husinrsM to hip I said ami whn he returned ha agnM-l wtth m'.

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At any rate she tried her ena awoae rrom his dream with some bitter memories. About that time he met a real woman whom he could have loved and who did love him. But Miss Brown knows that there are such things as character duty, so her wuiimn leiia me man wno loves her to "go on being splendid," that Is being faithful to his wife and loving and training his child, while she goes on caring for all the unhappy and distressed who come to her hospitable doorstone. The best thing about the book, next to its ideal, that character is better than happiness, is the por trait or its poet. Blake, ana its novelist hero, Martin Redfleld.

One would suppose that there would be more lifelike portraits of writers in novels than of any other sort of peo ple, but somehow there aren't. Miss Brown's portraits are genuine, sympathetic and true. Thomas Dixon Exploits Jefferson Davis and Attacks General Mile. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Southern Confederacy, is the central figure of Thomas Dixon's latest novel, which, undor the title of "The Victim gives a graphic description, of scenes and incidents with whicn the notea Confederate was associated during the Civil War. In a prologue the author writes ln Interesting fashion about the boyhood days of Davis, in Woodvllle, Mississippi; the kidnapping of young Jeff by his elder brother so the little! fellow could get proper schooling, his later entry at West Point, his graduation and his experiences ln the Army as "a lieutenant under Colonel Zacha-ry Taylor; his marriage to Taylor's daughter and her death, which was one of the hardest blows to Davis ln his whole career.

Arriving at the opening of hostilities ln the Civil War, the author Introduces a pretty South- enl lrl an1 a young Northern spy as the heroine and hero of a pretty love story which runs through the book, the thread being picked up here and there between more serious passages relating to the war. As in "The Southerner," Mr. Dixon's previous historical romance, he has drawn the scenes from authentic records and he fays: "I have not at any point taken a liberty with an essential detail of history." Jefferson Davis la pictured aa the hero who by his genius and force' of character held the South together for four years against an ene- superior in numbers ana backed boundless resources Of Davis terrible experiences following the close of the war. the author had consldera- hlG to say- Davis was so broken In puyoim oxiiouieu his death momentarily. In his prison, where General Nelson A.

Miles was his Jailer, he was treated more like an animal than a man, according to Dixon. His body had shrunk to a skeleton, his eyes were set and glassy, his cheek bones pressing against his shining skin. His breath came ln short Sasps, and his voice being 1 aM prisoner, "Never during the Ions- hours nf these weeks and months of torture did he lose his dignity, or his lofty bearing quail before his tormentor. He was too fflned and dignified to be abusive and too proud, ln General Miles' delicate phraseology, 'to The story concludes with the trial of Davis for treason and upon the fJjsTeement 0f hls tral judges and his subsequent admission to ball Davis stood for three hours shaking hands with weeping men and women. "Jo subllmer tribute," says the author, "was ever paid to human worth." "The Victim" ls published bv D.

An- pleton Co. A Brisk Detective Story. A detective story with plot well worked out, a sleuth with brains and the solving of mystery along sensible lines, are presented in Mrs, Charles Bryce's "Mrs. Vandersteln'a Jewels." It tells the story of a beautiful widow, celebrated for jewels, who was simply mad to break Into the company of royalty. Mme.

Querterat, her hnlrdrester and masseuse, takes advantage of Mrs. Vandersteln's weakness and frames up a scheme to get her patron's jewels. She forges a letter from a nobleman declaring his love for the widow and Mrs. Vandersteln falls Into the trap. She is lured to an unoccupied house where the masseuse kills her with chloroform and with the aid of a man accomplice disposes of her body Inside a safe.

Mrs. Vandersteln'a companion, young girl, escapes the clutches of the murderers with a fractured skull and after Glmblet, the detective, has a ooui ciearea up tne case she Is found in a hospital. Mme. Querterat flees to Boulogne wnere she poses aa Mrs. Van dersteln and sends a message to Lon don announcing her arrival.

This serves to throw the police off the scent for a time, but Glmblet sticks to bis clews and rounds up the criminals In great fashion, Incidentally bringing happiness to a pair of sweethearts. The novel is published by the John Lane Company. Back to the Days of Henry II. "Jehane of the Forest," by L. A.

Talbot, published by the J. B. LiP' pincott Company, ls a romantic tale of the days on the Welsh-English er' naa Tl JSZ heroine, is the daughter of Pargeter, the Woodward, keeper to the great Lord John de Fort-Castel, Earl of th Forest of Wyre, ln the heart of which was Jehane's home. Jehane In her rambles through the forest one day came across Lambert de Fort-Castel, who has gained the 111 will of his father, the Earl, for gambling, nna sin tho Fori abhorred was nnd Lambert had gambled heavily and lost all abroad, having had to borrow money to return. In his depressed inlrit and afraid to venture near the 1' art, Lambert had lived for days In the forest till he met Jehane.

The loaned him a horse and gave hlrr some money to get him to his uncle, whom he hoped to get to Intercede with the earl ln his behalf. In return for her aid Lambert declared "If It ls my fortune to return to ii father's heir, ask what you wlli of Lambert de Fort-Castel and I will rive it to you. If It Is my doom to a landless wanderer, call upon Lambert, the outlaw, and what hi ight hand can get for you shall be equally yours And In the following years, when Jehane has partly resolved to enter a convent, and, ln fact, has entered the novitiate, Lambert da Fort-Castel climbs the walls of the monastery and curriea her oft to be his bride. It la with Arlee, starts on a hunt for her. the Amazon Jungle has during the I York Harbor seems to have special ap-The girl deceives the captain into be-j last few months been exploring certain peal to our great American realists, for lieving that she Is pleased with him, i of the little known regions contiguous is also the home of that veteran nov- lo ine Amazon anu is now gamei nig ellst and cntlc, William Dean Howells.

his adventures into a book which In Mr. Howells is a strong and sincere ad-the fall will appear under the Imprint mlrcr of the younger novelist and speaks of the Putnams. Special interest should of him as "one of the greatest Amerl-attach to Mr. Lange's work, not only I cans now writing fiction." In connec- "Literary Criticism In American Pe- tn right direction, and It Is Illustrated rlodlcals," Bliss Perry; "Latin America! holographs and diagrams, so and the Monroe Doctrine," Hiram that one can practice at home, with Blngbam; "A Pilgrim In Concord," the nld of a friendly plnnn player, or Henry A. Beers; "The Mirror," "Es-Uven nlone, with the gramophone.

The cape," Fannie Stearns Gilford; "Lot-1 text Is from the pens of Troy and Mar-ters from an Old Hair Trunk," Dudley ga.et West kiiuw, Mr. Aimi rsoii has Jeffery Farnol has abandoned his con- templated trip to America this summer in tuuer lo complete nls new novel. The author of "The Broad Highway" has not been In this country since he wrote the book that placed htm on the literary map. His next novel will not be ready tor book publication until lVlb. When death had removed Gilbert, Sullivan and Mr.

and Mrs. D'Oyly Carte, It seemed that the time had arrived for producing a record of their singular achievement. Accordingly, Francois I Collier, who conducted tho Savoy operas i from the beginning, began to write his reminiscences of the Savoy and the Savoyards. While the work was ln progress he too, unfortunately, died and Cunningham Bridgcman, who had hecn associated for a great number of years wth the D'Oyly Carte Company and was meiong lnenti oi nuiuvuii, sieppea mio t)i(i jjrcach flnd tne book t0 com. plction It ls now announced for early publication In England and America.

Louis Joseph Vance is now furnishing the motion picture companies with some of their best material. His autumn novel "The Lone Wolf" will be filmed for the "movies" before William A. Brady produces it as a play on the legitimate stage. Robert Herrlck will spend tho sum mer as usual at York Harbor, Maine. tlon with Mr.

Herrlck's latest novel "Clark Field," there appears with the Imprint of his publishers, Houghton, Mifflin Company, an Interesting collection of critical opinions of his work by Mr. Howells, Frederic Tabcr Cooper, Harald Nlelson and Edwin BJorkinan. The first secretary of a chamber ot Commerce In the United States to be distinguished by an honorary degree is Munaon Havens of Cleveland, who was recently awarded the title Master of Arts by Oberlln College ln recognition of "his making larger and higher Ideals for chambers of commerce throughout the country." Many persons who have never heard of Mr. Havens as the secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce will remember the name with pleasure as that of the author of "Old Valentines," one of the successful novels of tha year. A statue to the memory of Ralph Waldo Emerson has recently been erected ln the Concord Public Library.

It is the work of Daniel Chester French, a friend of Emerson and designer of the Minute Man statue, for which Emerson wrote his famous verses thirty-nine years ago. The breadth and permanence of Emerson's fame Is shown by the fact that contri butions for this statue, came from all parts of the world. A no less striking proof of the present day appreciation of the Concord phlloaoprner Is the large and steadily Increasing sale that ls reported for the ten volumes of Emer son recently published Journals. George Sylvester Vleree.k who Is at present traveling In Europe, visited at Oxford the grave of Pater and the trees where Oscar Wilde was wont to walk. His cicerone was Louise Imogen Gulney, the distinguished Amerl-can poet, who has made Oxford her second home.

The two poets vowed Introduce a new word Into the English Innguage, namely, the verb, "to pool" (pronounced pote). I poete, you poete, he poetes, etc. Vlereck was pleased to flnd all his books except one at the Library of Oxford. Reports from lost month's book sale In Chicago placed Jean Webster's "Daddy-Long-Legs" high in the list of best sellers. The play from tho book, with Miss Ruth Chatterton rs star, will continue Its Chicago run Into July.

It will be seen In New York at the Gaiety Theator early In October. THE WORM) OF MOVING PIC-TURKS. Motion Picture Magazine for August presents seventeen full poge portraits of picture players. Including Louise Glaum, Ned Burton, Marguerite Clayton. Dlllln Bhodos, Francis Ford and Adele Lane.

There aro many stirring narratives which are profusely Illustrated with half tones. Karl Schiller ls the author of "A Romance of the Janet Reed writes of "The Yellow Tralllu 'Across ths Burning; Trestle," is by Alexander Lowell, while a pathetic story Is presented called "The Hops of lillnd Alley," by Gladys Hall. The stories ar short, sharp, crisp and consequently readable. A feature la a heart to heart talk with Rose E. Tapley, a motion picture actress, who says sho would rather sew anil cook than to vota.

sees duty instead. Both She a and Peter have character, and as soon as they understand that they love each other Peter comes to New York to work and Sheila goes on being a wife and mother. When she tries to recover her gift for writing she finds that It has fled from disuse, but she finds her reward when It blossoms ln her son Eric. That outline gives the keynote of the book, that duty and faith are better I than rame or "affinity," but it gives no Idea of the charm which springs from excellent character drawing, from simplicity of style and from a fine and unfailing taste which keeps the author from saying too much. This last quality Is notably rare In first novels, and Its presence gives promise of much more good work from the author of "The Torch Bearer." "Oay Morning" Is a Sturdy Love Story Connoisseurs have come to look eagerly for the novels of Mrs.

J. E. Buckrose, confident that ln them they will find charm, common sense and a sturdy humor which manages to gild the bleaker aspects of life. They will not be disappointed ln her latest, "Gay Morning" (George H. Doran Company, New York).

The "Gay Morning" of the title ls the gav morning of youth, in which nothing can be wholly terrible, not even an engagement to the wrong man or woman. This is the story of the engagement of Stanley and Emma, two middle class young people In a little English town, who had always supposed they loved each other because they had been brought up together from early childhood and fought each other's battles. Emma's father Inherits money and moves Into the big house he had dreamed about In his boyhood. That makes Emma eligible for men far above Stanley's station, but she la too loyal to think of throwing him over, and father and mother Basset have too good hearts to ask her to do such a thing at the promptings of ambition. Then there crmes along a Sir Matthew, with whom Emma finds that the can be friends as she never has been with Stanley, because Matthew Understands so many things.

Emma has a cousin Sybil, a reckless flirt who reguiariy -goes for" Sir Matthew, but who can't let any man alone, and draws Stanley Into a flirtation when ma gooa eaten isn around Of course it all comes right In the end. but the end Is les'fnterTsttfg man ine tnings wnich happen by the way. Mrs. Buckrose has drawn real people, and you sympathize with them as tney go aiong, as well as want to know what happens to them in the tend. The book Is full of capital char-.

acter portraits, and Emma and Sir Matthew are young people worth caring about. Even the old novel reader won't skip. Alice Brown Wrote "My Love nnd Character and faith are the corner- atones also of "My Love and I (Macmlllan. New York), a storv nub last year as tiy "Martin Red- but now reissued under the name of its author, Alice Brown, the Boston novelist. Interest In it will be Increased because Miss Brown has but; won a ho.imio prize for a play, to be produced this coming winter, and because her novels are always worth reading.

This Is about the best worth reading of the lot. It ls Indeed the very charming love story ot a poet who wrote in prose, but who thought and lived hy "the light which never was on sea or 'and." It is such simple, noble natures as Martin's! which mak-s the worst messes of practical affairs like mantage. Because Mildred Lee was beautiful as a dream Martin Imagined that her soul had the jootlo quality of her looks. In fact I i and thus keeps him away from her until Billy B. Hill can find a way to rescue her.

He finds the way and the rescue ls accomplished ln thrilling fashion. It would have been an excellent opportunity for the motion-picture men. Of course there is a wedding at the end and Billy B. Hill then divulges the secret of his middle Initial which he announces stands tor cunKer. He couldn help the name, he said; it had been wished on him, and he had been asked not to let it go.

The story is published by the Appletons; Jl.ao. Harold Blndloss Shifts His Setting to Africa, Haroid Blndloss. the writer of stories of the Canadian northwest, has shifted the scene of his endeavors to West Africa and in bis latest book, "The League of the Leopard," follows the fortunes of two engineers, Carslulth Maxwell and Hilton Dane, who love the same girl back ln England, into the Jungles of Africa ln search of gold. An explorer, wno gave ma lire to tne search for the gold and had prepared a map showing the location of tho river whose bed was lined with gold, had ot his deathbed, given the map to Maxwell who promised to continue the search. Dane, forced to raise money to put an Invention on the market, accompanies Maxwell and from the start the explorers are hampered by the League of the Leopard, a band of savages led by a murderous Frenchman named Rldeau and time after time In the Jungle the Englishmen have narrow escapes with their lives.

They finally reach their goal and Maxwell returns alone to civilization to get financial aid. Lillian Chatterton's father fur nishes It but Maxwell ls shot as he nears ramp On his return trip and dies In his partner's arms. Dane survives though he would willingly have staked his own life on the chance of saving Ids chum. Mr. Blndloss has drawn two exceptionally strong characters ln his heroes nnd many will, no do'lht, like this African story better than any of his tales of the frozen North.

The book Is published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company. A Story With Theories About "Labor" A novel that Is at least striking as the first work of a young man almost fresh from college Is "New Men for Old" (Mitchell Kennerley, $1.25 net). The author, Howard Vincent O'Brien, has given a readable story of a wealthy young Idler, who, upon the death of his father, returns from Paris to find that he has been left practically penniless He starts out to maks his own way In the world and finds the making hard at first, but at last discovers his "me dium" nnd rises to a position of prominence In "business," Along with this is a love story that terminates as love stories usually terminate In novels. The significant part of the book Is that throughout It runs an undercurrent of comment upon and Interpretation of the labor unrest.

This ls Interesting, but not epochmaklng. On the wrapper of the book It Is stated that the publishers who originally hod It on their list decided, after It had been printed and bound, not to Issue It because of the attitude developed In It toward lobor. The reviewer, after a diligent search throutrh the volume for anything revolutionary, can only state that he believes the first publishers he-came panlcstrlcken very easily. The book In essence Is a plea for "social Justice," though we do not believe that this term Is used in It. As the first book of a young man It Is promising.

because of its own Intrinsic Importance but because of the attention that has been drawn with Increased force to this general area through the recent ex plorations of Colonel Roosevelt. Miss Mary Averlll, author of "Japanese Flower Arrangement," sailed recently for Japan, where she will spend six or seven months working upon another book commissioned by her publishers, the John Lane Company. She will take a house, as Bhe did when she lived in Japan before, and resume her study of the language. Who Is "Martin This question, repeatedly asked at the time ot the appearance of "My Love and la now answered in tho surprising statement that It Is Miss Alice Brown. All readers of "My Love and recognized that the name on the title page was but a nom de plume, but "Redfleld" ls one of the characters In the book.

Many suggestions were made as to Its probable authorship, and it was quite vigorously maintained that It was the work of an experienced hand. It was credited to Miss E. B. Dewing, the author of "A Big Horse to Ride," to Arnold Bennett, to Jeffrey Farnold and even by a few particularly discerning people, to Miss Brown. Many reasons were put forward by the critics for the story's anonymity, the most amusing of which, in the light of the present disclosure, Is the one that held that It was undoubtedly the real autobiography or life history of a man, who could not, because he was telling facts, reveal his Identity.

The comment of the Minneapolis Journal is also not without humorous significance now: "Considering the strength of the book there is likely to he considerable discussion as to the identity of the author, for Martin Red- ifl3ld is a pseudonym. One thing Is cer tain no woman could have written 'My Love and This Is the second Important announcement of the year In which Alice Brown has figured. Just preceding It came the word that to her was awarded the $10,000 prize ln the Wlnthrop Ames play contest Booth Tarklngton's "Penrod" seems to be particularly popular for reading on the trains by holiday travelers. Not only Colonel Roosevelt but more humble people, too, have been chuckling over the exploits of Penrod Scholleld, as the train speeds along. When Mr.

Tarklng-ton was traveling up to his summer home in Kennebunkport recently, to his Intense surprise the brakeman hailed him by name and told him how much his wife had enjoyed "Penrod." Almost coincident with the publication of George Brandcs's volume on Fried-rich Nietzsche comes the announcement of the celebration that Is being planned for the seventieth anniversary of the birth of the great German philosopher which falls on October 15 next. To mark the event the admirers of Nietzsche ln Germany propose to erect a monument to his memory at Weimar, near the house In which he died in 1900. It ls reported that a substantial sum ts already In hand and arrangements are now under way to receive contributions ln England and the United States. Any balance that remains after the monument Is paid for will be used to put the Nietzsche Museum In Weimar In order, to found Nietzsche scholarships (or stu- L. Vail; "New Opportunities In the Pacific," Lincoln Hutchinson; "High Prices and High Living," Frederick S.

Dickson: "To a Mocking Bird," Wil liam Alexander Percy; "Liberty; Medieval and Modern," A. F. Pollard; "Life at Great Altitudes," Yandnll i Henderson; "Conversations with 1'nul Heyse," William Lyon Phelps; "The American Vanarl." Theodore H. Wool-sey; "Young Eden," "Surety," Witter Bynner; "The Recovery of Lost Greek' Literature." H. do Forest Smith.

In the July Century John Luther Long, author of "Madam Butterfly," contributes a story of sentiment entitled "The Snndwlch Man." The other stories are "The Dark Night," by L. Frank Tooker; "The Hand of Nature," bv Arthur F. MrFarlane; "The Dagger." hy Charles D. Stewart: "Ills Biggest Venture," by Eugene P. Lylo, "The Great Tradition," by Katharine Fullerton Gerould, nnd "Keepsakes, by Marlon I'ugh Read.

Particularly timely are papers on "Tho Nation Without a Ship." by A. C. Laut, anil "Italians ln America," part of Professor Edward A. Ross' Immigration series. Arnold Bennett's narrative, "From the Iig of the Velsa," describes his personal adventures In Holland.

Albert p.igelnw Paine continues his on "The Car That Went Abroad," and amusing superstitions of tho tropics are described In Julius Muller's "Among Caribbean Devils anil 1 nipples." Among the literary features are "Reminiscences anil Letters of Bul-wer-Lytton," by (iabrlello de R. Wad-dell, and "Reminiscences of Tolstoy," by his son, Count llya Tolstoy; "Two- Story Farming," by Russell Smith. I There are verses by Helen Gray Cone, Gladys Cromwell, Douglas Duer, Louis Untermeyer, Anna Glen Stoddard Reginald Birch, Colelta Ryan ami R. llenct. ArnonK the features of the Metropolitan for are: Cover Penrhyn Hlanlaws; "The Socialist Movement In llelgnini, Kmllo Van- clervelilc; "Pawns of Nature." Clara E.

LaiiKhlln; "The Hnck-hand Drive." I'. A. Valle; "Shall the ernment own tne telephones ami the Telenraphs?" An Interview with ConKresmsn David Lewis of Mary land; six page rotarynravure, show Ing: Joyce Fair, John Heed, Tho I'eo pie Mourn, Inga Hontiim, Mica Retrova, Booth Tarklnittnn; "Little Scenes from Here and Kvervwhere," Harry Dart; "The Man Who Dreams Railroads," Edward Hunger lord. is.