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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, 'WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1904 16 literature record of the navy. Hay we not expect from the governor additional volume covering' other period of hi official life In Washington and In Massachusetts? Such books would certainly be eagerly read and enjoyed by the people of this State. F. B. T.

BOOKS OF John D. Long THE DAY on the Navy Catholic families serve ss a basis of Mrs. L. 1 B. Wmlfords latest novel.

The Black Familiars. The plot In brief concerns tho plan of Lady Delaval to secure entire possession of her husbands property by causing him to disinherit their only child Katherine. To accomplish this, she arranges for Katherine to marry Sir Jasper 8L Osyth, scion of a poor but honored Protestant family, and thus incur for her daughter tho displeasure of Lord Delaval, whose loyalty to the Catholic faith she does not question. To Sir Jasper she represents that the marriage must take place In order to save the Delaval property from confiscation by the queen, which could not happen if Katherine should marry a Protestant. Sir Jasper Is not averse to marrying a young and beautiful heiress and the story of their eventful courtship, culminating In his rescue of Katherine from the dutches of the black familiars of the Spanish Inquisition and the conversion of Lord Delaval to the Protestant religion.

Is one of rapid action and Intense Interest. Jn the Fiction World Socialism in the United States The Siege of Pekin In Wall Street The Mental Factor in Medicine A California Poet A New Edition of Boswells Johnson The Pilgrim Pastor Miscellaneous come ths dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds and the advertisements to each of ths first six editions which were issued at various Intervals during the ensuing twenty years. Two of these advertisements were written by Boswell himself, and tbe remainder, by Edmund Malone, the famous Bhakspearean scholar, wbo at tbe death of Its author, took upon himself tbs amplification of tbe work. It Is Interesting to note that the manuscript addenda and revisions left by Boswell were carefully printed In the third edition by Mr. Malone, and that be proved an exceptionally faithful and painstaking editor.

That Mr. Malone had the gift of prophecy Is made clear by these words of his: Of a. work which has been before tbe publlck for thirteen years with Increasing approbation, and of which near four thousand copies bave been dispersed. It Is not necessary to ssy more; yet I cannot refrain from adding that, highly as It Is now estl mated. It will, I am confident, be still more valued by posterity a century hence, when all the actors In the scene shall be numbered with the dead; when the excellent and extraordinary man, whose wit and wisdom are bare recorded, shall be viewed at a stHl greater distance; and tbe Instruction and entertainment they afford will at once produce reverential gratitude, admiration and delight.

The two volumes in which this edition Is reprinted are ths latest Issues In the Caxton Thin Paper Series, the entire text being compressed In extraordinarily small compass. Tbs binding Is full leather, and the frontispiece portraits represent Johnson and bis biographer. haps our recent wars, especially In the Philippines, have -illustrated this more fully than moat wars. It has been said more cheap, and cheaper, reputations have een made than ever before and there may be a large element of truth in it. One cannot help wondering If he has anybody In particular In mind.

There are many Illustrations in tbe book, several maps and an appendix of a hundred pages containing Important and Interesting documents bearing upon the subject of tbe volume. In Wall Street Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street. By Henry Clewe. Revieed and enlarged by a rtsum4 of the past fifteen yean, making a record of forty three yean in Wall street, while retaining the former title, eta New York: J. 8.

Ogilvie Publishing Co. FORTY-THREE years In Wall Street Is the record of Henry Clewe. the banker. In this volume of 724 pages the author bas set down his reminiscences and experiences In tbe money centre of America, not as an onlooker, but as sharer in momentous events In tbe financial world. Disclaiming literary skill he has nevertheless produced a work which forme an Interesting and Intimate contribution to an Important branch of our national history.

Mr. Clews made his debut In Wall Street on the heels of the panic of 1857, when he bought a seat In the stock exchange for $500, a price ridiculous In comparison with tbe cost of admission today. Two years ago $80,000 was paid for a seat In the New York Stock Exchange. Following ble description of conditions In 1857, Mr. Clews treats of Wall Street as a civilizer and how to make money In Wall Street.

He gives a chapter to the Importance of-business training and finds that sons of Independent gentlemen make very bad clerks; also, that night dancing and late suppers do not contribute to business success. His advice to young men starting In business Is full of common sense and shrewd philosophy. His account of Wall Street during tbe war, the designs of England and France In aid of the Confederates, foreign Intrigues against American liberty. Secretary Chase and tbe treasury and the Inception of tbe national banking system, are written by one who was on the Inside and who speaks without fear or favor. As interesting as any other part of the volume are the author's sketches of the lives of the great financial leaders.

Men like Commodore Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, Jim Fisk. Jay Gould, Henry Vll-lard, Ferdinand Ward, here pass In review under Mr. Clewss vigorous pen. Panics and their causes are fully treated, and the rise of the modern multi-millionaire Is described. The book contains fifty-three Illustrations, most of them portraits of the men who bave distinguished themselves in the money mart of Wall Street.

There is no Index. The Mental Factor in Medicine The FUrce of Mind. By Alfred T. Schofield. New York: Funk St Wagnslls.

MANY readers who are Interested in mental medicine will doubtless remember a work entitled The Unconscious Mind. by this author, published two or three yean ago, the object of which was to establish the fact of an unconscious mind in man. and to trace in brief some of Its powers and the various ways in which they were exhibited. The present work Is 'devoted to showing how this same mental force can be utilized In tlie treatment of diseases, and though Intended specially for physicians. Is yet written In popular style so that tbe thoughtful lay reader will have no difficulty In understanding it.

Dr. Schofield aserts that a large number of diseases are many times of pure mental origin, and can be cured only by mental processes. Sometimes they are unconsciously caused by emotion, and often by allowing the mind to dwell upon supposed ailments. Many diseases, too, are of sympathetic origin. Heart troubles are very frequently Induced by the mind.

Turning to the lungs end breathing, asthma and various forms of dyspnea, coughs and hiccoughs are largely Influenced by emotions or sympathy. But. most frequent of all. the didestive organs. Including the liver, are greatly affected by the mind.

Dyspepsia, of all diseases, is most easily brought on by mental Irritation or disturbance. The author quotes freely from high medical authorities to sustain his assertions, and then expresses his wonder tliat in acknowledging the mental origin of those diseases these same physicians never attempt mental treatment as a cure, but rather regard such treatments as charlatanism. Dr. Schofield takes up and considers the various forms of mental treatment, the prayer cure, the faith cure, Christian Science, and various forms of quackery, to all of which he nllows the performance of cures, but he adds, the effective agent In every case is the unconscious mind. This psychic agent Is sometimes a strong will, or it may be augmented hope, faith, cheerfulness, mental nctivlty, imagination or new mental One great factor In tbe cure is diverting the mind from the cure, and bringing a bright, cheerful atmosphere Into the presence of the patient.

Often the doctor Is more than the medicine. The author is an English physician of high standing, and his book Is one which deserves thoughtful reading and Ready The Jan. 15 Deliverance A dramatic novel of modern Virginia life By Ellex Glasgow DOUBLED AY, PAGE CO PUBLISHERS 84 UNION NEW YORK 11 FRENCH BOOKS GERMAN, ITAUAN bW U. SPANISH, CrPPLES A 8CHOEXHOF 1SS TREMONT ST. (over Wood's Jewelry 8 tore) door north of Winter St, TcL Oxford 10VO-2.

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Vteltorawaloom5AParkS a IS micana, olna mlsta, the rodcl the national flower, and many others which might easily have been made from the pictures In an ordinary seed catalogue. If the spirit artist had desired to show something really striking, he should have drawn pictures of ths animals of Ento, which, according to ths description, are truly wonderful. The volume contains a comprehensive glossary which may, after careful study, give ths reader a good working knowledge of tbe Ento language, and doubtless will he very useful to tourists who are attracted to the planet by this story of the marvellous things to be seen there. This narrative of loving endeavor" was written for the purpose of affording Earthians Information which only through mediation of discarnat-ed spirits can be obtained. A Book of Ancient Verse The Shepherd's Pip Pastoral Poems of the XVIth and XVHth Centuries.

Selected and Arranged by Fitzroy Carrington. New Foy, Dullield A Co. WE hardly dare call It ancient, for although tbs XVI. and XVII. Centuries from which these poems sre drawn sounds pretty far back, yet the poems themselves are of that charming variety which takes longer to grow old than any other.

The simple little preface Itself has a curiously modern sound: I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to Covetousness, ss that one which I have bad always that I might be Master at last of a small bouse and large Garden, with very moderate conveniences Joyned to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to tbe culture of them, and study of Nature. 80 wrote Abraham Cowley to John Evelyn in the first half of the XYIL Century, some time before Elizabeth or Her German Garden was thought of. And the stuff of ths book is made from the reflections of many a man in many a mood induced by a rural environment, and set down In various vers Tbe result is ss happy a collection of verso as we have seen in some time; nearly all our old favorites are included, and there are very few In the book that are not somebody's favorites. Many of the most charming of these pastoral poerris are unhappily too little known, and It is to be hoped that their presence among the more popular ones here will lift them Into deserved prominence. But we must ask, where sre the two perennially charming songs Crabbed age sad youth Cannot livs together.

and Come lire with me end be my love where are theae? They axe certainly pastoral; they were both sung by shepherds, as truly rural shepherds as ever sang among seventeenth century poets. Another Story of Kentucky Red Head. By John TTrl Lloyd. Illustrated. Xew York: Dodd.

Mead St 1t ED Head, by John Uri Lloyd, au-I'l thor of Stringtown on the Pike, JL pictures feud life in Kentucky. A Red Head forbids bans; Holcomb resents this; two lovers separate; and I could not love the dear, so much Loved I not honor more, loses no pathos when voiced In Kentucky dialect: The minister endeavored to protest further, but vainly; for. ignoring his words, the boy continued: Martha cried a bit. fer she a gearl, and gearls cry at nuthln; 'Little Red, she said, ets pow-ful bard, this dlfTrencc twixt yo uns and we uns, but we ain't married, and we knows our places. Yo re a Red and I a Holcomb.

Et ll be an awful feud, she said. Both air grit. I answered. Then the old man called ag'in and she moved off. Thets all.

parson. The next morning, shooting begins. When tbe smoke lifts, little Red Head, hero of our story Is revealed, sole survivor of his house, fleeing to Stringtown. When big enough to handle a Springfield rifle he promises to return to the firing line where Or Holcomb grimly -awaits him. From tbe time of bis appearance at 8tringtown to his sudden and violent demise, the story is essentially as given In the author's previous book and sometimes page for page and word for word.

Red Head, It must be admitted, seems but a feeble attempt wnen compared with the Justly praised Stringtown on -the Pike. Its depiction of feud life, however, is Interesting and not unconvincing In spite of the curiously contorted style which so often caricatures the thought. The book la strikingly bound and profusely illustrated. Child Development The Psychology of CSilId Development. By Irving King.

Chicago: University of Chicago Free THIS volume Is the embodiment of an effort to outline intelligibly and consistently tbe mental development of the child from the standpoint of mental function. It Is eminently successful as far as it goes. Child-study has had such vogue of late years that all sorts and conditions of men and women have rushed Into print with observations or theories about it until tbe seeker after truth has become wary In accepting the major portion of the offering Mr. King has. however, gone to work in scientific fashion and makes out a clear case for his contention.

To speak of the child in terms of adult life Is fundamentally wrong, for there Is a long period when the human Infant Is simply a little animal with only the most primitive instinct It Is Impossible to give the order In which the higher Instincts develop or to say that cei tain emotions belong to certain period There is school of psychologists who would fain convince us that rule and measure can be applied to every function and every form but 1 the facts as educed by this author do not bear out that theory. Carefully and systematically he traces the growth of the child and the progress from one to the next, taking up In turn the various phases from tbe earliest consciousness to adolescence. Some Illuminating chapters, are on Imitation. Moral and Development of Interest The Interpretation of adolescence in its relation to religious cxcitment Is especially valuable. Professor Dewey of Chicago has written an Introduction 'and be includes a bibliography of childrens Interest with charts of child development, making the volume useful to the student of psychology who Is endeavoring to systematize hla work.

In the Fiction World The Thoughtless Thoughts of By Isa Carrington Cabell. New York: Henry Holt Jk Co. The Master-Feeling. By N. AlmlralL Boeton: Richard G.

Badger, the Gorham Press. The Bword of Garibaldi. By Felicia Butts Clark. New York: Eaton A Mains. The Color of His Soul.

By Boa Anderson Norris. New York: R. F. Fen no St Co. The.

Magic Mantle, and Other Stories. By Stephen Jackson. New York: M. 8. Greene Sk Co.

The Manor School. By Mrs. L. T. Meads, author of Daddy's Girl, A Bunch of Cherries, Bad Little Hannah.

Illustrated. New York: The Mention Co. The Blood Lilies. By W. A.

Fraser. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. The Black Familiars. By Mrs. L.

B. WalTord. New York: Longmans. Green St Co. UBT who Is Carisabel no one know; or, those who do know will not tell.

The tltlepage says that she Is Isa Carrington Cabell; but. of course, no one ever really bore such a name as that. Evidently Isa Is fond of transforming her name In various curious ways; and quite likely. If one were to spend weeks and months In delving to the depth of this mystery, he might discover that the true Inwardness of It all Is found In "Isabella C. Carrington." But then.

If one should succeed In penetrating Isa's secret, so carefully concealed, what matters It? He would not," by that means, find the greater pleasure In absorbing her "Thoughtless Thoughts." One cannot peruse the words of wisdom which drop from her lip In honeyed phrase, without recalling the "Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, which have come down to us from the mist of the past. Not that Isa 1 In the least a plagiarist, but that the reader, after drinking in the wisdom contained In these Thoughts, cannot repell the reflection that there were no need of Marcus Aurelius, and that he might well have never existed. When one has once read her reflections upon "The New Man." "Servants, or One's Relations, not only Marcus Aurelius, but even Mr. Dooley himself, sinks Into nothingness. The author of The Master Feeling has produced a rare and conquering character, that keeps pace with the aspiration she acts toward her Ideals, and that succeeds very happily Indeed, after as brave a struggle as ever became the lot of a woman.

A womanly woman, nobly endowed with mental and spiritual qualities and gifts, and possessing the energy and devotion that will not allow her talents to lie dormant, she proceeds to the development of those riches of soul and character whose fruition proves that after all love is master and king, and the only thing well worth living and trying for. The heroine this new author creates has charms that outlive the merely physical and sentimental fascinations of many really fine characters. The story of Agatha Feynton Is a story of a loyal struggle, and of a steadfast progress of victory past temptation through much severe trial, to the consummation of a womans best hopes. Strength and seriousness are revealed, throughout, as well as a very Ingenious and gratifying unfoldment of a well-written story. We may not say so many good things of the publisher's portion of the work.

The cover Is absolutely unworthy of so good a novel, and the proofreading Is by no means Impeccable. Ae the title Indicates, "The Sword of Garibaldi Is an Italian story of the early sixties. Filippo Ferrettl, a rich young Roman marquis who has been away to England, returns to find all Italy stirred up by the war between Plus IX. and Victor Emmanuel, represented by Garibaldi. He falls In love with the daughter of Count Radow-sky.

a Polish sympathizer of the Italian patriot. Cardinal Rcsmlnl'a secretary Is in love with the same girl, and finding out that she loves Ferrettl, hates him accordingly. Ferrettl draws the wrath of the pope upon himself, but manages to evade the soldiers sent for him and flees to Garibaldi. He Joins the patriot army In the expedition to Sicily, followed by Antonio, the secretary, who is acting as a spy In the Interests of the pope. The marquis behaves with great gallantry, and Is rapidly gaining his promotion when he Is accused of being a spy by Garibaldi, who has discovered that there Is a traitor In the camp.

Papers placed In his tent by his enemy, Antonio, serve as proof and he Is degraded from his rank and forced to leave the army. Of his struggles to regain his position and his sweetheart, and his success at last, and of the trials of Count Wilhelm Radowsky and his daughter Olivia, we leave the story to tell In an Interesting and straightforward way. The book is profusely Illustrated. Between Altruria and Bohemia there lies a land where allegiance Is double and therefore doubtful, and it Is of dwellers In this place that The Color of His Soul treats. The hero, who Is an unmitigated scoundrel posing as a reformer.

It depicted In various relations of life, but from no angle does his soul show white, as a true mans should. The author has used rather too much space In Irrelevant details, but as the story grows It Improves, and contains some strong writing. Dr. Herron preaching and practice are sketched In a masterly way and the sad denouement Is done very artistically, so that we see clearly the color of the poseurs soul and It Is not good. The book Is daintily bound ami well printed.

There arc four readable tales in The Magic Mantle. The title story depicts a memorable scene, enacted on Christmas Day at King Arthurs Court, with Merlin and an elfin assistant ns the chief characters. Merlin is presented In an entirely new light; his sorcery Is of the beneficent order, being used solely from patriotic motives, and the utilization Is an Intensely dramatic one. The other three stories of the book are: The Eerie Piper, a weird tale with an excellent moral; A Dream of Developments, a racy character sketch; and The End-of-the-Week Outing Club." There Is first-rate reading furnished herein for all members of the family. Particularly Is The Manor School a story for girls but nevertheless It Is not at all the smooth-sailing sort of story that most American girls are In the habit of reading.

It Is not in the least like the hackneyed (though profitable) stories of home and life that are the textbooks of American girlhood's recreation. Rather Is It a very strenuous story Indeed of English schoolgirl life, innocent enough as to Its final purposes, but questionable as to the eccentric and too often haphazard and at times childishly unexplained acts of the heroine. She Is a veritable little hoyden as she scampers this way and that In search of adventure, without possessing the least lota of appreciation for the happiest of home surroundings and luxuries: but she Is always glad enough to get found out and brought back home again. We cannot say we have much admiration for her or her escapades or for the authors choice of so unmethodical a tiny person. Interest yes, there Is plenty of it.

with variety in seml-demi notea But we prefer the look-up. lift-up stories for girls that direct aright the while they amuse and entertain. The Blood Lilies Is a tale of the Canadian northland field of Stewart Edward White's endeavor country of Hudson Bay trading posts and of whiskey-loving Indiana treacherous half-breeda dour Scotch folk, volatile Frenchmen all murdering the queens English most variedly and tellingly on every possible page. In no points that we can discover, except In greater fulness and sharpness of detail, and In a more tellingly sympathetic Interpretation of Indian character, does Mr. Fraser bear the palm away from his better known and better advertised rival surely not in general atmospheric effect.

In spite of excellence In parts, the work as a whole Is Irregular In movement and uncertain In appeal. The binding Is Irreproachable and the Illustrations are excellent. The disfavor with which the Catholic religion was looked upon in England during the reign of Queen Elisabeth and the efforts of Rome to stimulate waning loyalty to tbe Church among the more Important Schley friend urge that he was there, hi ship was the favorite target of the Spanish fleet and It was fought moat efficiently. Still another reason for the popular pig-headedness lay. in the bearing and disposition of the two men the gallant, dashing.

Jovial, fascinating Schley and the quiet, dignified, distant and Isolated Sampson. Even had Sampson had Secretary Long's gracefulness when he came to dictating that despatch of July 4 (and if he did not write it himself he showed astonishing lack of prevision and care In allowing a subordinate to do It, for despatches after a battle have always been matters of the greatest Importance and care from the time of Caesar's Venl, vldl, vlcl," to Perry's equally famous report on the victory at Lake Erie), much of the sting of that controversy would have been removed. If hard luck ever haunted a man It was about poor William T. Sampson In June and July, 1898. Besides tbe story of the, fights at Santiago and Manila, the author has a very Interesting chapter on Gallant Deeds of the War, Including, of course, Hobsons and many others as daring, but not as well known.

But tbe chapter on Personal Reminiscences will undoubtedly be Judged as the most fascinating In tbe book, and tbe reviewer is tempted to quote it entire. His description of the cabinet meetings of President McKinley Is a brilliant bit of writing and most Ingenious In Its phrasing. Massachusetts people may be surprised at the warm way In which Secretary Long speaks of General Alger, as kind and ffenerous a heart as ever beat. There never was a meaner conspiracy than what proved on the resulting Investigation to be a baseless attempt to discredit him with regard to the supplies furnished to the soldiers during the Spanish War. cabinet meetings were merry.

Alger often refSrred to my battered silk hat, which he over and over again promised to replace with a new one, but has, unfortunately for me, failed to do so up to the present moment. Of Secretary Root, Mr. Long speaks In terms of admiration, although there is a sly dig In referring to his reports at cabinet meetings as having a trained lawyers fulness. Every time Mr. Long speaks of President McKinley, It Is In terms of genuine affection.

And these references are made over and over again In the course of the two volumes. His must have been a very noble and lovable character which could evoke such tributes as those. Mr. Longs words are wise and happy when speaking of the relations of the cabinet member to Congress: It Is ad vantageous, he says, for the head of a department to have served In Congress. It was often Interesting to see a member of Congress, perhaps himself a man of wealth, running his legs off to Intercede for some watchman discharged for drunkenness, or some Janitor arrested for theft.

On the other hand, all this shows how democratic Is our system. Several stories are told of the silliness of the social function rules and the quarrels over precedence. Here Is one: A chairman of a leading congressional committee threatened never to attend another "White House dinner because he was given no lady to take with him, there not being a sufficient supply of that article to go around, but sat crustily between two men. He tells of a worthy gentleman who called on him as a representative of the Civil Service Reform Association of his State to protest against a bill to transfer some temporary clerks Into the regular Civil Service. The visitor dilated upon the enormity of the offence of political pull and upon the delights of the merit system, etc.

As he rose to go he said. Governor, by the way. I have a boy about twenty years old who is trying to do something In a business bouse, but does not seem to succeed. I thought that perhaps you or some of our friends here would have influence enough to get him a position In some of these departments. His paragraphs on Roosevelt must be reproduced.

As assistant secretary of the navy his activity was characteristic. He was zealous in the work of putting the navy in condition for the apprehended struggle. His ardor sometimes went faster than the President or the department approved. Just before tbe war, when the Spanish battle fleet was on its way here, he, as well as some naval officers, regarding that as a cause of war, approved of sending a squadron to meet It without waiting for a more formal declaration of war. He worked In-defatigably, frequently incorporating his views In memoranda which he would place every morning on my desk.

Most of his suggestions had, however, so far as applicable, been already adopted by the various bureaus, the chiefs of which were straining every nerve and leaving nothing not done. "When I suggested to him that some future historian reading his memoranda. If i hey were put on record, would get the Impression that the bureaus were Inefficient, he accepted the suggestion with the generous good nature which Is so marked in him. Indeed, nothing could be pleasanter than our relations. He was heart and soul In his work.

His typewriters had no rest. He. like most of us. lacks the rare knack of brevity. He wfe- especially stimulating to the younger officers who gathered about him and made his office as busy as a hive.

He was especially helpful in the purchasing of ships, and in every line where he could push on the work of preparation for war. Almost as soon, however, as It was declared he resigned the assistant secretaryship of the navy to accept the lieutenant colonelcy of the Rough Rider Regiment In the army. Together with many- of his friends, I urged him strenuously to remain In the navy, arguing that he would thereby make a signal reputation, and that to go into the army would be only to fight mosquitoes on the Florida sands or fret In camp at Chickamauga. How right he was in his prognosis and how wrong we were in the result has shown. He took the straight course to fame, to the governorship of New York and to the presidency of the United States.

He has the dash of Henry of Navarre without any of his vices. Some readers have thought this condemnatory of Roosevelt. I cannot so read It. It is frank and critical, but fully complimentary and appreciative. No one could speak more agreeably of the press than Secretary Long to whom all newspaper men were loyal and really attached.

He compliments the fraternity on Its work and trustworthiness. These men he singles out for approval: Edwin M. Hood of the Associated Press, Richard V. Oula-han of the New York Sun and John Callan OLaughlln of the New York Herald. These efficient and high-class men are fully deserving of this praise.

Some of these and other newspaper men could probably tell Mr. Long same Inside stories of their struggles for the news of his department which would surprise him. The secretary closes his work with an earnest protest against any act which will make any naval officer In any way above the secretary of the navy as contrary to our theory of government, by which the civil Is always superior to the military power. In-ferentlally he Is apparently opposed to the army staff act and certainly he would not wish such an act passed with regard to the navy. This book ought really to be called "Memoirs of John D.

Long os Secretary of the Navy, and every reader is very glad that the author did not narrow It to merely the The New American Navy. By John D. Long. Two volumes. New York: TheOutlook Co.

POSSIBLY the word "felicitous has been as severely and exhaustlngly overworked as strenuous and "academic. But It Is difficult' to find an apter word to characterise the writings of the Hlngham states-, man, whom we all yet call Governor Long. There was price a Western University president cf whom It was said that he could -make the five-minute speech or prayer of all the men In the State. Certainly John D. Long could match the former of those performances and probably the latter, also, if he ever tried.

But he carries that same gift of easy, affable, gracious and witty speaking Into his longer addresses and writings, and hence this book Is a model In respect of Interest and effectiveness. He traces carefully the history of our navy, more especially the new navy, which began with the Administration of President Arthur. The President led in asking Congress for a rehabilitation of the navy. Secretary Hunt reinforced the demand, and the Naval Advisory Board, whose presl-' dent was Rear Admiral John Rodgers and some of whose other members were Howl-son; Evans, Crownlnshleld and Hichborn, greatly aided. It was this board whlcli recommended that steel be used for the hulls of men-of-war, a recommendation which was so Important and Imperative that Its adoption marked as much of an era In naval shipbuilding as the creation of the fleet of new men-of-war Itself.

Yet there were objections to the scheme, and a minority report was made, among the signers being Hichborn. William E. Chandler, secretary of the navy during part of Arthur's term, and Hon. Benjamin W. Harris of Massachusetts, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives during the Admlniztrat'on, also receive warm words of praise for their seal and efficient service In the cause or the new navy.

Under act of March 18VI. the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and Dolphin were built, the first while squadron. Since that time there has been no backward step and the present naval plans contemplate a still greater number of more powerful men cf war than we have ever had. But It is on the period of the war with Spain that one's attention Is most Intently fixed. The story of the preparations tho secretary tells with cautious care, and with Interest.

Looking back over the negotiations conducted with Spain. he says, "one cannot but remark the high pi me upon which they were pieced: how MKit ley made humanity and clv'llxaion, wlfh protection of American Interests, the rardi nal principles cf his poMry. The President's appeal to the American peopla Christmas eve. ISO, for charity for th starving Cuban people. the author says, was humane in its conceot'on qnd execu tion.

as It was also specially characteristic of his own generous nature, but It wa also Internationally significant, for It marked tho beginnings of American intervention In Cuba. Throughout this narrative are fine touches of sentiment such as referring to the despatch of Captain 81gs-b-e announcing the b' owing up of the Maine, which came to Mm at two o'clock on the morning of Feb. 16 shall I ever forget It or the gentle hand that brought It?" a reference which all his near friends will understand. From that moment it seemed that war was inevitable and the navy, which had been quietly at work in a-tlclpatlon for months, now redoubled its efforts, but with the same calmness ns before. The squadrons were ordered to tirget practice and manoeuvring and work of construction and repair was hastened.

By the time war had there were available for the navy, and most of us wiH learn, for the first time, from Mr. Long that of this amount 21 were unexpended Rnd remained in the treasury. It is impo-sble to go Into the details of the history of the war and war preparations, but Mr. Long pays tribute to all his associates. Including the Naval War Board (or Naval Strategy Board, as It was called, which name, it will be remembered was further transferred by the hot-headed critics Into Naval Iethargy Board), ar.d all the Individuals who aided the department, especially Miss Helen Gould.

How Dewey came to get the chance In the Philipnlnes Is of interest. In the fall of Admirals Selfridge and McNair were found to be neir'nv the end of their tour of duty as commander of the European and Asiatic The three men whose turn at sea duty had come were Commodores E. O. Matthews. John A.

Howell and George Dewey. Matthews was chief of the Bureau of Docks and Tards. from which place It was not thought desirable to take him; Howell was commandant at the League Island Navy Yard anl Dewey was president of the Board cf Inspection and Survey. Mr. Long enys.

I decided to give Dewey the Asla'ic and Howell the European station. I remember President McKinley's saying to me In his characteristically pleasant way, 'Are you satisfied that Dewey is a good man and that his bead la to which I replied affirmatively, and the appointment was made. Political or personal influence had nothing to do with One of the most Important and one of the few controversial chapters of the book Is that devoted to the Sampson -Schley controversy in which Secretary Long was naturally an Important figure. With the general features of the author's presentation of the case no one not absolutely blind can at this time find fault. It Is a complete Justification for the action of the Administration in choosing Sampson In the first place and In continuing him at the head of the North Atlantic squndron during the war.

It Is apparent from his account that the Administration erred If at all on the side of good nature and charity In dealing with Schley. Yet there Is one feature of the campaign In which the secretary seems to be too severe on Schley; his delay In leaving Clenfuegos for Santiago. Schley did not surely know until a short time before he sailed from Clenfuegos that Cervera was not there, and at no time had the Nary Department Informed him definitely that Cervera was surely at Santiago although urging Its belief that Cervera was there. Certainly Schley might and should have moved more rapidly to learn whether Cervera was at Clenfuegos, but It would have been foolish for him to have left Clenfuegos before he had either learned that Cervera was not there or had been told by his superior officers that Cervera was undoubtedly at Santiago. Certainly Schley was a trifle slow, but his caution ought not to have secured him blame.

As for his slow trip to Santiago the secretary la right in blaming him and when one comes to read those hysterical coaling" despatches to the Navy Department and learns of that famous about-face and sail to the west from Santiago for Key West movement then can one cease to utter any excuses for Schley. He received better treatment on the whole than he deserved. That the people generally lauded Schley at Sampson's expense was due to several peculiar circumstances. One of these was the suspicion that Schley was being pushed aside for Sampson because of bureaucratic favoritism; another was the fact, maddening to Sampsons friends as an Illustration of the cruelty and Irony of fate, that he was not personally In command at the moment the naval battle began. Then Socialism in the United States History at Socialism In United States.

By Morris Hlllqult. New York and London: Funk St Warnalls Co. MIT R. HILLQUIT treats In an Interesting si way a subject which, by1 Its xnultlpll-A A. city of detail, would naturally be very tiresome.

To give any unity to the steps taken at different times and at different places In this country toward the formation of the present Socialist party Is a hard task, yet Mr. Hlllqult accomplishes It. He considers In Fart the early Utopian Socialism, leading to the formation of colonies and societies, and such communistic experiments as that made at Brook These Utopian experiments he divides Into four classes. Into the first class fall the sectarian communities, such as the Shakers, the Harmony Society, Zoar and the Oneida Community. The first of these religious communities, the Shakers, was established as early as 1770.

The second class of settlements consists of those founded by Owen, or under his Influence, in the period 1825-30, The third class of communities la the one most famlliah, and contains those which owed their origin to Charles Fourier and his philosophy most of them styled Phalanxes (from which "phalanstery Is derived) among these Is the famous Brook Farm experiment. This period Is covered by the year 1840-1850. The last class consists of the Icarian Communities, a series of experiments growing out of a single enterprise of the Frenchman Etienne Cabet. The original community Icarla (named after the Ideal country treated of in Cabots hook Icarla, was founded In 1818 and Its numerous offspring have prolonged their existence for almost half a century. The last Icarian community was dissolved In 1895.

The statistics of these experiments show that the religious communities of the first class have been the most successful and the most enduring the Shakers, the Economy, Oneida and Amina existing today in prosperity and comfort; while of the Socialistic settlements few lived over two or three years and those few that did were In a constant process of destruction and disorganization not. Mr. Hlllqult thinks, so much because of the religious nature and enthusiasm of sectarian settlements as because these settlements were made mostly by Germans, a thrifty, skilful, agricultural people, and especially because with them communistic Interests were secondary and often sacrificed when material Interests demanded. "The Shakers, Harmonists, Ana-Bites, Perfectionists, and other religious communities employed hired labor In the fields and shops, and toward the end of their existence they practically ceased to be communities. and became agricultural and manufacturing corporations.

Their material success was thus to a large degree due not to their communism, but to their departure from communis ib. There has been no country so favorable to experiments In communism as the United States; and the constant failure of such experiments here shows that Communism is Impractical, Utopian, and unsuited to modern social and economic conditions. In this lies the difference between the early Utopian Socialism and modern or scientific Socialism. Karl Marx, says Mr. Hlllqult, "did for Sociology what Darwin did later for biology; be took It out from the domain of vague speculation and placed It on the more solid basis of analysis.

Modem Socialism, he goes on to say, proceeds from the theory that the social and political structure of society at any given time and place Is not the result of the free and arbitrary choice of men, but the legitimate outcome of a definite process of historical development, and that the underlying foundation of such structure Is at all times the economic basis upon which society Is organized. As a logical sequence from these premises, it follows that a form of society will not be changed at any given time unless tbe economic development has made it ripe for the change and that the future of human society must be looked for, not in the Ingenious schemes or Inventions of any social philosopher, but In the tendencies of the economic development. Part II. deals with the introduction and development of modern Socialism and its growth into the present national Socialist party, and concludes with the present condition of that party. New gains In members and supporters, new acquisitions In the press, and new victories at the polls are being reported steadily, and if all Indications do not deceive.

Socialism will be a potent factor In this country within a very few years. The Siege of Pekin America In the China Relief Expedition. Fy Brigadier General A. S. Daggett.

United States Army. Retired. Kansas City: Hudaon-Kimberly Publishing Co. IT is perhaps rather late In the day to Issue a volume on tbe memorable campaign In the summer of for the relief of the beleaguered legations In Pekin; but doubtless there is a place in history for General Daggetts story, which contains many Interesting facts not presented by other writers. It forms a concise story of tbe doings of Americans on tbe march to the Chinese capital.

The writer Is generous In his praise of his associates, as well as of the foreign armies that made part of the allied forces. The expedition was In many respects unique. It was planned to rescue the legations and the citizens of more than eight different nations, and was composed of men from eight countries, although the Austrian. German and Italian troops did not arrive in time to participate in the relief campaign. The Americans took a conspicuous and honorable part, and were acknowledged to lie the equals In fighting qualities and.

In Initiative and brilliance of execution, the superiors of any troops in the world. General Daggett takes Issue with Rev. Dr. Nevin. of the American Church at Rome, wno has been quoted ss saying that the siege was a trivial thing, nnd he declares that If that clergyman made this stater ment he was strangely Ignorant of what he was talking about.

The author also criticises the practice of sending out so-called punitive expeditions, and expresses the belief that many hundreds of Innocent Chinamen were killed by these expeditions. General Daggett tells a little story illustrating the dangers of war against an uncivilized people and showing how ready the American Is to meet any emergency. One. day a Boxer approached Captain McCalla with a white rag In one hand and a spear In the other. On arriving within a few feet of the captain ho thrust his spear at him.

narrowly missing him. Before a second effort could be made tho captain drew his revolver and shot his assailant. There are occasional degressions In tbe work which are quite as interesting ns the main line of the story. For instance, the author points out the difference between the experienced and Inexperienced officer. "Tbe former looks to the Interest of his Government; the latter, impulsive, excited, looks for personal glory; the former, his reputation for personal courage being secure, bends all his energies to tho best methods of gaining victory; the latter, having no reputation for personal courage, exerts oil bis energies to gain one.

Per The Pilgrim Pastor John Robinson The Pilgrim Pastor. By O. 8. Davis. With Preface by Prof.

WUlUton Walker of Yale. Boston: The Pilgrim Press. HERE Is a book which tbs student of early American history should not leave unread. John Robinson, though not among those who sought America as a refuge from religious Intolerance, was the pastor and adviser of those who did, and was active In the movement of emigration from England to Holland and from Holland to the New World up to the time of his death. Bays Professor Walker in his preface, Congregationalism has had its founders.

Its martyrs and Its exiles, to whom It delights to pay reverence; and of these early worthies non was mors attractive In his character, more wide-reaching In his Influence, or more deserving of lasting remembrance than John Robinson. Broad-minded, charitable for his age, far-visioned, he stood firmly for tbe truths for which he endured exile, and yet tbougbt charitably and kindly of those who differed from him In belief. He was a strong, sweet, earnest, simple, brave, self-sacrificing pastor. He, beyond any other leader of early Congregationalism; was the moulding force In the training of the founders of Plymouth. To have been under bis training was, to such men as Bradford, a training In firmness of purpose.

In single-minded devotion to truth, and above all. In kindliness of feeling. In this way he helped to make the story of the beginnings at Plymouth one In which all lovers of New England delight. In the Introductory chapter, tbe author describes tbe religious conditions of the and tbe origin of the Separatist movement In England which sent so many worthy men Into exile. Much of this information will be new to tbe general reader, wbo will be surprised to learn what Importance was attached to tbe most Insignificant forms In the church service, and for what trifling things one could be excommunicated.

Robinson claimed tbs Established Church was corrupt not only in its ceremonies, but In Its polity. "Your grand metropolitans, he declared, "your archbishops, bishops, suffragans, deans, archdeacons, chancellors, officials, and the residue of that lordly clergy, find no warrant in the simple church order of Christ and the Apostles. His preaching and open opposition to the forms and methods of the Anglican Church at last forced him from England, and he removed from England to Leyden, taking with him many families of his followers. The story of his life and labors in his new home and amid bis new surroundings is graphically told, with a closing chapter on his character as a man, and his place In history. Essays in Fiction Ths Haggard Side.

Brin's Eaaaya tn Fiction. By the Author of Tlmea and Day. Auto da FA etc. London, New York and Bombay: Longman a. Green St Col NO one who has read the "Essays in Paradox will neglect the opportunity to read these further papers by the same anonymous writer.

They discourse briefly and learnedly upon diverse subjects, ranging from "Tbs Beyond" to Flaying at Love, and from A Law for tbe Rich to A Trade Tragedy, and they alternate skilfully between tbe bright and the sombre side of life. They are really, as their subtitle proclaims them to be. Essays In Fiction. being a mingling of the Imaginative with the actualities of life. In the little essay upon "Fepys.

we are given a clear glimpse of a quaint personality. This was not the great Pepys but another bearing the same name. He bad come to London in search of fortune by the law, and tbe story of his life Is a tale of lamentable and heart-breaking failure. He soon found that his ambitions had been audacious. He had his name upon a door in tbe Temple, and be lived in the two little rooms behind that door.

Ho waited and waited, but no work came his way. At first he felt that he was capable of doing the work ns well as any of tho bold and confident gentlemen whom be saw in court He often saw them go wrong In their law, and cover their defects by their commanding personalities. He saw the men and their klte-like reputations, reputations of which, like tbe boy. they only held the strings, and the wind of chance puffing did the rest. But his opportunity, which he was watting for.

never came, and lie ate his heart out pining for It. Ho liad not, of a truth, much else to eat. for the man had a conscience. His chanco never came; he received a pittance upon the death of the aunts who loved him. and ho became morbid In his solitude over the dead past.

"I end as I began, says his biographer, "by saying that It Is impossible to write the life of such a man a man who Is in the world and yet not of It, who does nothing that Is worth mentioning, who la not even a slght-seer at the events of time, who leaves no record upon paper, but who waits and waits for work which never comes, and whose heart only remembers. This Is but an excernt from one of these delightful essays. The1 book should be the companion of every essay-lover. Spirit Bands in Man Journeys Ento. By ford Press.

to the Planet Mara, or Our Mission to Sara Weiss. New York: The Brad- IF anyone is seeking a curiosity not to say freak In literature. "Journeys to the Planet Mars should be perfectly satisfactory. The story certainly is a wonder in its way; but It Is about as Interesting as a tabla of logarithms or a dictionary. It describes Journeys of spirit bands to Mars and tells what they saw there, and it Is only through the persistent entreaties of friends on both sides of life that finally she (the medium) has de cided to offer for publication the narrative." The various Journeys rover a period of two years, and the medium's report has been much abridged to bring it within tbe proper space for publication; but there Is enough left to fill the 518 pages In this volume.

In the first party, we are told, were the medium, George Brooks, an Englishman: Agassiz, the famous naturalist, and Alexander von Humboldt. Others were shown the wonders of Mars on subsequent expeditions. author, realizing that this is an age of scepticism, solemnly states In the preface that the story lz In all sincerity, a statement of fact. Mars, It Is stated. Is by Its inhabitants, known as Ento, which In their language, signifies chosen or set apart.

A spirit artist, Aaron Poole, illustrates the volume with pictures of tho flowers, which, in Ento, grow in rare profusion. There era the valseta, rolna, lolsa A California Poet Th City of In. and Other Poems. By Fred-rlck Milton Willi San Francisco: The Mercury Pres. THE author of this book dedicates his work to California to Its beauty.

Its power. Its Intellect and Its spirit. The reader naturally looks to him for some fair exhibition in erse of that beauty of scenery and of climate which he would extol. Tbe scene of bis leading poem Is as dim and uncertain as the geography of Poe's phantom lands and seas. Here is a general picture of the place.

Oer all this wild magnificence. Oer all thla seeming permanence. There brood a feeling of euapenaa. A a the silence, though unbroken. Contained were bunting with a token Of a duom-wurd to be apoken; And on the Stranger will obtrude The feeling that a multitude la moving restlessly, unviewed.

This is quite too panoramic In Its character, and the reader turns to find a more definite picture of Californian scenery. "The Valley of Nil promises something limited In scope and. perhaps, pleasant to the sight. He tries to read until he comes to the verse; Then a stream like a fever-dream With the demiurgic efflux commingled; Oh. alns.

If It turbldne fill (Ala for this Being outelnglel). If It HU all the Valley of Nil! and he reads no more. Scenery painted with so much "turbidness Is not pleasant to look upon, and the ground seems unsafe to the feet. He passes oh to a political piece. Civil Anguish." and he reads.

1 to the homes of the yeomanry, the sinews nse of the State, the fourca of lb civil dm of hand and brain, the primal In Nature's free, ripe bounties; go thither; hag-amrd Poverty Iran 'neath the lintel, trying to think; And corpulent Mortgage, in pining, complacently nude And rubs his fat hands. The verse goes on so to the end. No scene of beauty, no note of sweet content! It cannot be that this represents the spirit of the harpy. Joyous, bright-faced, youthful slater that looks westward over the Pacific. A New Edition of Boswell's Johnson The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

By Jamri IV well. Evil. Two volume. Ckzton Thin Parer Series. London: George Xewne.

Ltd. X'-w York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. pry LTHOUGH no specific Information is Arl vouchsafed to that effect, we take It for granted that the text of these two latest volumes containing the life of Johnson Is reprinted from the sixth edition. Issued in 1811. The original title page of the work as published In 1791 is reproduced, and following It.