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Show & t thit the life of Hret iB,nr ",, r t,cn '' h'11 ln,lmale l T 1 J. r Pcmbortnn, who Mf h roat material sup. ' ill friends I ,, e lamentln the pur. n 11 nimed American" of a " ,, of books. consisting l ' , , Election embraced ' r of Caxlon's press 1 n uii Moirls'n llbrarj S(, i Mint by 'ho Oxford I ' nth ccnturv. The first ' 1 v , i the Tyrunnius Hull- ri tC , t f All HM t" !8 ' ' ' "n i -1 The second book I " , ncrps ct unlca of the if ' j on the Limenta- mude by John Loth- I ' oo 1 ut border. The ' ,- x, I inntlones notnblles '"'i f ,i lutnl Unite f "am. "lr. i I i be the orils one of '",: A public llhiars. and f ' i r the last named vol- V ,,,. , le In 1800 was. 300 ,,,, 1 it the short story Is " if i Saxon blood rouses " ',,, f , i mtrlbutor to The "' H t undcitancl hy what 'im, i illon that legend has " ,.r i he adds "The mod- ii w f peifcoted by an ' i.to ' P " Alln" rop a" Rr" 1 fur -l fmcd In the 'land ?V i I rancc, though IB- ! " ' '. . -iik i ii remarks that there ioilt r. IK "'or(' ' "' ,uln t0 turn fJ.p3f ,1 cony of a "unluuc' B. It c thf following Muslin- ,., n f ' enturles the now fa- .irt f t n "f the Mnlerml Blhle lii ' npletelj lost as If It ' rii r x ted V'lthln about a ,, ,i u other two copies were ,,,1 ii by Mr Voyn'ch In Italy ,i of bv the Due de Rlvoll In ,. i; ! if ently a third cop un rthed by n continental ti lor a" 1 doubtless other exam- .it i und li due course. A r, i rth at least flOO" i.fr n r e Is Chiilcs Lamb's "( nu j verse, "The Klne and i,i t for which an entlui- ",l if piltl $1110 last March i siiv t first of a second copy i fen nf a third brought the price mil. . . . ( trg'l H publishers of Charles ,-saiw ngf report that their an-Haiti an-Haiti 'or a number of sears hac rtpi nuirter of a million copies in h It 'a pronnture to speak of I j n v. nlng In populurit). tm f "II the modern historical u Mr II Lnnc-Poole. In his pre-(til1- l completed 'Historical f Mr n Hurope." saja that the 1f-j? Knrl on ripruner, a joung t In th" Kanrlan army, who Is-ji Is-ji fir lltlon of his "Ulstorlsch- iripbli he- Hand Atlas zur Oes- rtt i w iln Uuropis ion An- Idd Mlti'iH rs his auf die neueste la ISti throiiKh the enterprise of dm Ji C na publisher, William "hf A onil edition nppeared In I TMush h s military duties called t u t nn the further Improve- and r .Islon of this work he iJ n h i his Hxcellency Karl j nn Meiz (lenernl of Infantry, I dld nn Mmust 21, 1S02 his name alii In II ilubly asoclited with Attai It nns fortunate that just 'rizhi tii a man with a speilal i fnr hutoi al cartoKiaphy was i!' lo tak It, the task This whs Tk"-1 Menke, who settled In iU h ' I nd after fifteen oars' -or r odu rd the third edition of nntri At i flssO). nn edition which u lo t -i i!ftel lemodeled that Jt ii tin rink as a nt and Inde d-t v k the basis of all til t i cenersl historical ntlases "" f' 'h nime No his--al si f Km ope noffcsltifr a ' " i le his hitherto appeared J it I I nn Mir mittcr of time, we sup-number sup-number of American au- i ai r nl wealing the white 'of 1 tiiunelcHs life, will meet In 'UK where and compile to. I I the firmulion of an American "n I innlnclnii Is snrearilnir inlr miuuKed to provide Itself I i nm hndj of academlo charac--1" f which the mere author, ) n neen cleierlj excluded '"i i nrj (iermany Is talking t ' 'lie I'orty Immortals of ' R i many Immortals of Its i or - " of course, differ wide- fun i report of tho situation. n ' f the older men such as 1 Pnil I.lndiu and Adolf IT'S, i ire iiBilnst the heme" . ipposltlon will be suc- "" 1 tie iloisn The ncademlc I" In in nlr and nil the nations 1' " i r it Ihej mn make of It be. ' in lesunio the even tenor ' r i c mvalt Ith much ru. " ,r llnilnaiy steps toward ( ff.ii i an iHiiOciuy on our own "J i , FciiniiM wilier alone Is f I iimnnir our Kort), the in simple ennuch, seen , 'of pw at least. Hut Man i i in when the boomster " "i I it Ii solntj on, and thu ,r f Ji o (XK) i oplcs come to his l" mk Tribune. A ' xH or 1'AM.TIME. " Winter wind, V , UP tllO lllll. . ; t leckn hn wildly dinned ' re nil was mill, .'.., uufli the foreit deep, V." ' the leaies i in hi tho comliiir ileep 1 hummer urines, ! yj n Hie loiel field, , ' r lowly nodi , r nun who would not leld 1 ,' llentod ) lur rrown of gold; slit HHioeil I , his heurhiK bold- nifrnld ' -1 nine oer the Innd, Wirl'Mnomo ' , ptei In the hand ,,w tintheiniiin" - it trnwnlnff blist J wan hlown . V lriminilKinmn at Mat 1 tu lur tluoiiu , m Inter wind, , , I. town tho lilll, t, , n hi midlj iiriiiiied , " "" fll ,' i i to all the leue, )ii1mlI uml hushed ,r whcio utrlcken Buramcr ''v n nt and blushed. ;5'r ' retmrt that a Trench book 'k ' io,"'', "f f,,r n ,r",e Ht u ,, ' i the Pirls nunys an nrlsN ,y the story fiom which , " I i look the plot of ' Othello" .,, r ' ri nf Hie Jloor of Venice " ' Jtithlo Desdemnnu Is beat. , l (ltlu tin uml Ihko with 'in h leave no murks of Uo. ' aril they pull down tho niiiB iilmvo her and di. ne has heeti killed hy acclt .. ' "ii y concludes with the ' "'tliello by Deelcmonas t ,h , ' ho Iiuh been perpetually " ' ' 'in enlio by the Done. Mr h " "Hi no will shoitly Issue n . '""" nf his poems, which I i '.." We,i "f 0l" lllersmre at 'in i luny ot ,lin M'lumes are out ii, L" ' they nre of all shapes and 4 ot us whu ho u number of them on oui ehe u. .,.i , Prt will, t" " ' iliMll ueiei which fet 1, hlsli iii. i, .'." 0""' "f rooms but ,e , ,'nu '" ! "u,1,!" would brinit .Mr Swinhl,,? ""Hon offorrulnr0;rn,?:'n,?f,0hlw",n, Waie,,o,XfXdSipi;erTe.hWd0r'! HAED HY ma SISTKn fort, of "."".'' .m"y."'n' " !' " larKinRton the author of The ii.iV tleman from Indiana Heamilre ..V rher..5" ","in '"lint"!- friend She TarklnJin; T,,rll"S,0n Jameson lul.nf ihi " .,!n" n" "ceptlon to the rnm "'Jected maniincrlpt. had be-;,lrt""w, be-;,lrt""w, ,0 h"n i'lnatly as ?m i v' '"J"' ,he niRimsirlpts were 1.1. s 5lo'l0,k ut "" Wthn of it is no us sbiler were Tarjlnr. tons pathetic words. "Uib. Dooth bIk hhIJ -thei neer renH JT, ,VVnu'tnt-lfl' H to me ftad fiilthri." 1,!? ,I0UI" !'" 'tooted and iaitntul slstei wasfjlnir eamivaid from Indianapolis as fast a, the train would permit and In fortj -eight I o rs Sfd'Shih '.,U"i" f-"r " l" to "h her eir ' '"' ''," Mnt ,n hl'5 "'"ted tellee U "ni1 rlalnly W,IU "" ,m "Ot uLnJ? ' lninu r'l't hud been lead Would the publlKher klmiij CHM the TloZlr i ' V "ilnl , ,TI" "ner eame He said he had read both manuscilptx nan "" " ''"" Ul of tllc or,lu wi,!le!in?i,'."l,'r "lB"r '""nlajed her wit and dlplonmc she le.lted sup. Posed passiiRea from the works of her hZ thZ.Jn$ ",k"1 ,,1C ' tn'lr' ' l( he ?h. i? thein and not appreciated them He said he had but did not see that the paSBanes were remarkable Here was the moment for the coup MM Tl,rnlne '" "'" Publisher, she 'Just as I thouclit, these manuscripts hac neier hern read .None of the pas sages Just quotid bj mo occurs In cither storj " The lesultlnif consternation 1ml bet-ter bet-ter be Inmclned thin described The in inuscrlpts now received attention, atten-tion, and Tarklngton's fame was soon Except for Mrs Jamesons extreme cleverness her brother mlchl ue k!-en k!-en up In despair nnd neer been known by the reading pfcbllc The Pilgrim. Tim ortEATcsT or zoia One of the whole miss of Kola's works howeier. thero looms up three colossal mastcrpleies so wonderful, so overwhelming In the evidence nf genius which the ufford and so Imposslb'e to forRet, as to be assured of an unques tinned Immortalltj, These thiee masterpieces mas-terpieces are ' IAssonimolr " 'Nana' and ' I.i T)baele, and the ale linked so closely In their purpose and In the development of one dominant Idea as to foim n trllosv from which no mem ber can be removed Tbej nre (be residuum re-siduum the endtirlnc residuum of the whole ambitious series of the HouRon-Mactiuart, HouRon-Mactiuart, and thc, above and apart from nny of theli companion volumes effect tho purpose which Zola formed In 1800 of ex.ilalnlnc throuEh the me. dlum of fiction tho social life and the political decadence of the hecond Em-plre. Em-plre. This Is precisely what these three extraordlnarv books ntrompllsh and In wrltlnK them their author was In-tplied In-tplied far more than perhaps he ever knew, For the three exhibit an un broken sequence and they work out with all the pieclslon and the sureness of a scientific demonstration the thesis which wis In the writers mind In ' Ii Assnmmolr" we have to do nllh In dlvlduals In ' Nann ' with society In ' l.a Debicle," with an entire nitlnn III ' Ii'AssommoIr ' tbeio nre exhibited to us Die vicious Influent's which beset the pioletarlat, the leaven of evil and uncleanness working amidst the haunts and hovels of the deitrnded poor In "Nam' the poison spreads and cits Its w ly like a cancer Into the homei ot those who live In the Krent world In "Ie Debacle" we see a chivalrous and gallant nation Infected with the foul disease, and smitten to the earth because be-cause of the rottenness that has eaten out Its manhood and riesttoved Its strength Fiom ' Pmlle Zola,' by Harry Har-ry Thurston reck, In the November Dookimn, |