Show BOOKS wmOH HAVE j rA1r k 1 t f1 r r v r THIS PAGE OF TllE WON THE OVA CURRENT I F t J PUBliCATIONS I r TRDUN WILL XEP OF LAER OF TH II 1 IJ II 1 1 j 1 I II YOU IN TOUCH V1T33 LITERARY WOE LD J J t a sji j j TR MASTER 1IDS L = Tho EiiErlnccrlns Magazine for March cot of American Ovenland Transport to the Orient n brilliant article by Harrington Har-rington Emerson which pouts out n pending reversal or the commerce route Ia the Sue canal it IB a treatment from tlio workpoint oC a chitngu In the great iradcrouto to tho Orient Modern M II slilncry for Excavating and Dredglns by K W Robinson shown the jionderotis and effective machinery In use The General Gen-eral Manapcmcnt oC Metal rul Mines by Albert Williams Jr deals with the selection se-lection and UKO of the expert help Cost Flndlny Methods for ModerateSized Shops fourth paper The Betterment O SteamBoller Economy Tho British nal Engineer Under the Now Scheme r special papers ot merit An attractive feature of tlH innsuslms Is I the largo num b of excellent Illustrations that accompany Ct 01 excelent tu5t1 tlm pany the pupciu I Is a groat and Instruc tlvo montlily Ths Engineering Magazine O York J J rho Now Kngland Magazine for March that for fronllspSccc a fullpcge plate fho at Mnrvlwid Tea Parly with explanatory explan-atory ivvtlofe tho scene being the burning lt tg Stowurt that was la or the brig iW St1lt den with tea for the colonists WaterCraft Water-Craft of the World Ir a study compar Jng tho aijelcnt the comparatively uiod rn and the present Early ipUira ILlons 11 of the New England Coast Mar conis Cape Cot Station A Notorious t Pascal of the Good Old Times Ncw 3ngland 1 5r American Colonial 1 Literature Litera-ture Modern Posts all Pcillr Na I tureLove Among tho lets of Ancient Greece aio nomo of the apclal pupviH nil of them good There avc good short i titorics and poems too and the nil HUT 1u a strong II one AmerIca Compsuiy publishers I pub-lishers New York Tho Craftsman for March cor talnn a Bludy or Trinity Church Boston as u I I T onumcnt of American Art ably written writ-ten and comprehensive The Painted iVWIndow Is an excellent study In that ranch of art and has four prizes of elegant ele-gant Illubtra lions Decorated Windows follows a good supplementary article l An Arts and Crafts Exhibition at Minneapolis Min-neapolis with I page of Illustintluns ii Leadlines with a t Jlnc Fusion versus Lcadlncs illustrations Danish Do page of ustrtons nnd A Blgnor with three pages of pictures of thiinty work arc most attractive Other articles are The Making of the Glass In Defense of Fire The Jnlliumcc of tho Jews on Manual Training Not sand s-and Book Reviews 111 extremely pie Bcntahlc The United Crafts publishers I Sintcusc New York iAn i-An Afternoon Reception in the 13ost Room of the White House Is 1 very lute lullpage frontispiece for the Delineator for March The Spring Fashions comprise many fullpage plates sOno In colors and there IB a page devoted to fac aimllcs of I fashionable sUitlonery The Spring MI1 llltcry The Dressmaker An Outof Town House Fancy Stitches and 10m ftoroldcrics Illustratcd Cookery Sto rle and Pastimes for Children Lace Otaklng Tatting Crocheting Shlrrlngs Bead Bags Health In the Household1 fTho Newest Sooks Childhood fourth papir Social Observances House Tumlshing To the Young Housekeep lr The Kitchen Practical GardenIng Garden-Ing Tea Gowns and Negligees Col loge Newu Club Life Girls litter este arc home of the tithes of good things In the nnmbcr Amelia E Barrs serial Thyra Varrlck draws toward Its close and the stories and poems are all good lhe Butlcrlck Publishing Co New York rho National Magazine for March has for features Jack Londons Klondike Htory ° Tho One Thousand Dozen and How I Ran for the Presidency by LId I va Lockwood The frontispiece show the I TapaneNo Doll given to Mrs Roosevelt l and I Members of the Cuban Legation at Washington Wash-ington Personal Recollections Lincoln I and Statesmen of Ills Time Practical Help for Reservation Indians 1luiaes 1 Jpf Aiicrlcan Affairs are some of the choice special articles Joe Mllchull Chap pies Affairs fit Washington with many portraits or promlnunl people 1 is I excellent reading us always Men and Affairs of Modern Moxltfb by S Glen Andrus tells ot tho great mineral wealth of the I rulnoa and of American Investments In them The Great Republic or the Fu turo in a report of a aemlhumorous speech by Archbishop Ireland It Is a lively entertaining magazine The W W KPoller Co Boston roter 1 The National Geographic Masaznc for Mitrch has a paper on Tho CannuDan I Boundary by the lon John W Foster I I A i Sccrntary of State Tho Mouuolns I jof Unlumk Inland Alaska by Ferdinand jWoatdnhl Is an illustrated description 1 jftclotirly written OpenIng o the Alaskan rTtrrltory by Ilarrlngloii 13nersonr il I 1uatrated Is enthusiastic on the njjrlcul I 1 total pofslhltltkH o our Arctic po scs lonl and of their eapaclty to misiain a largo population The Forests of Cai pada Work In the Far HUt h Tho I fyJevclopmcnl of Cuba Thcjorlcc of Vol I 1 l caiilc Action are papers of merit and i tho special geographic notes records and 9 proceedings of the society arc given Pub llBhed ror the National Geographic Society So-ciety by McClure PhlllSpn Co New ort t j t CossicrH Magaalno for MaielL has for TronUsplcco a line poi trait or Pcrclval I Tobertz Jr bjid a biographical sketch of 11m la given A large number of excel I el papnrn are found In the number among them Great Britains Naval Su ilpromacy I with ten illustraliona SVork i inc Pcopleo Homes showing what Is be I InK accomplished by American UulUling and Loan Association with fourteon AmocIIUons wIh l 1 vustratlomi Soma Abnomul British Lo XJinotlve Typcn with fourteen llltiatra thins The 1on Modern Power Probleii olcc Itric and compressed all power with ihlr I to n iUtisirullons HCjislnoss Tialnlng for tIts Engineer Electric Tmnsmujsion nee line wIre mutcrlals tOld high vol los Piogrcfslvo NonUiIon Labor 0100 fcHlurca of tho system and manasc tcit at Iho Baldwin locomotive vorki I lh lino illustrations uA Decade of Maim Ma-im Shop Progress from L LO to VJIM 1 flit there Is an excellent presentation of I tnt topics A handiiomo and Instruu ti c e puhllcatloji Too Gassier Magazitie J C New Yovk unlonr Magazine for Match dlsciMinon i ntw aniltrust law fron the atand r ntanl In t that the power it confcta upon 1 1 Government are altogether too owuep tt Rut danserotis n curloua reversal of 1 J Democratic Idea that tho legislation I v i OUnt to little Openlnjj of New 10 Itl I = ew trettt In Cubi HluGiialid tells of UM C line that has recently been1 built H Sin Cloia to Sanllago Imporl J 1ek J of Currency Reform Poverty at i vtni Vtaracicr IJulldor JSduwvilon In the t it Pplnci Our Arid tidorulu Pb 0 1 Private Uallroad Owners Gfn 7i A lltll nr Uw IIW71WI CltH Zaii ltlltr1 ° r 111 Pnnall Cal1l urcall I P rQ 0 nu It lu altittys a GUO t Ihouirhtstlrrcr The union Company Mibllahcra New York Tho Successful American for March gives I porlriltfi and biographies of eminent emi-nent ilnnnclerfl nniuiifaclurcrB state men municipal officials 1LII otis archl tech leading Jurists mitt hit and aulhorn There are excellent editorial iiummarlcs of mil comment upon tho business and ndiiHtry of tho country and personalities of prominent people It Is I a good and useful use-ful monthly The Writers Press Association Asso-ciation publishers New York The Literary Collector for February gives with fau simile tltlepaKC an account ac-count of The Connect Icut Law Book of H > 73 quaint and curlow The llrsl pan of Tint Uowfant Club ot Cleveland Is inrrled and there arc book reviews Cal lectors guide to the magazines nolcs inory I mil COll men t and current book tuples It t Is I a magazine of lute flavor of looklshnciis limo Literary Collector Co New York The American Quarterly continuing Pocl Lure for March has under the U tie Life and Letters a comment on American rural I Ifo and literary appreciation apprecia-tion some deficiencies of Instinct in thu unciiHured people and Rome dellclcn ok3 ol sense In the cultured critics the now soeliil ccmsclousnusu especially In DAnnunzIo and Druse what it Is to be draTiaUcal judgments of Aristo phanes Bollenu Leasing Knderlck the Urcat ni I veto of mudcrn critlcw bias against Robert Irownlug I as a dramatist Illustrated In Stupford Brookes opinions iho principles upon which a aIr Judgment Judg-ment should be based There Is chat about literary Uoston and the lOmcrson CcnteurIi alt a Talloyrinds prophetic diagnosis of Amt erlean culture Social end llls are i ciiusldvred In ivvlews of roceut sociological war Xolas social I theories and In connection with the coal strike Poetry and ilclion arc represented in a prose < all by Max Dreyer On Probation very long and tiresome and ThoughtBearing a very good poem by Blanche M 1 dimming Appreciations and 13ssaysv School of I literal tire and Reviews Re-views and Notes close a large line mim her A publication of unusual merit Poet Lore Co Boston What Maniicr ofMan By Edna Kenton Ken-ton Published by the EowcnMerrSH Company Com-pany Indianapolis A cruelly hard story of a famous artist Kirk Thnycr He is in time Hush of his irluniph ali has persuaded persuad-ed n good friend of his Mrs Davenport to let him paint and exhibit her portrait Then hu wants her to pose for him In the altogether which shu refuses to do ho raves about his inability to llnd a proper prop-er model which ho Is sure she would be but site holds back not because of her feelings but because she would be found out t After I though she Is a good pure woman thoroughly In love vllh her husband who allows her every hclitude a t trust of which she Is worthy Then Thiiycr recalls 1 a beauty he has met alone al-one of the Islands off the Scottish coast nnd whoso fancy ho had captured on a brief call at her home He goes to her finds that the only way l < get her Is to marry her which he does In swift hasle amI lakes her to his home In London where he persuades her to pose according to his desire but the shame of It weighs her down and at last the horror of the I picture causes her to awake to the realization realiza-tion of what he married her for nnd helices he-lices to her fathers home and dies HIs H-Is IL heartless tale and reminds one very much of one of Blacks stories in general plot and though more cruel than hip It la 1 strongly told and the characters arc I admirably wrought out I Is a most absorbing ab-sorbing story the one who begins Its reading will follow It to tho last line From the American Book Company Chicago Chi-cago we have Barness Klcm ntary History the United Stales and Barness tory I of Unied StIs < Bnrlcss School History o the United States both good textbooks tile latter convenient t and useful aa a reference book as well as for instruction In schools The present editions edi-tions arc thoroughly modernized tho elementary ele-mentary by James Baldwin who tells the story In biographies and thc school history his-tory by Joel Dorman Steele Ph D F G S and Esther Baker Steele Lit D 1 Also A Boy on a Farm by Jacob Abbott the popular wrltcrTor boys It Is a pleasant little account of a boys farm llf his work and hIs pleasures told In simple style Also Botany all the Year Round byE 15 F Andrews A tel lsvritt en and profusely pro-fusely Illustrated textbook fO high schools employing words easily understood under-stood and leading the t pupil to I make his own Investigations comparisons and applications ap-plications as Tiucli as poaHlblo The plan Is I fo arranged that t each subject IK inkcn up I at the time of year when the material for studying I Is I most abundant It I I Is an excellent work in which the self help if the sludcni Is l brought most promlnuni 1 jy Into play AlM A School Grammar of the English En-glish Language by W 1 Baskorvlll amid J W Scwell I Is of the usual stiff theoretical Inc soulkilling techni calterms sort and would cllterms probably not siand In the way more than other books of that sort In hindrance to the acaulre ncnt of a knowledge of Urn language Also Language Lessons by the name authors and ocnially adapted to retard pupils In the study of English and switch them off Into the desert of barren quibbles and dellnltlonn of useless terms Also tIme Childrens First Story Book hy May H Wood a nice lllllo variety in reading for the tots Also Commercial Gcrnan by Arnold Ar-nold Kutner adapted for nice In commercial commer-cial schools and in commercial courses of High schools Phis Is I claimed to bo the ilrst textbook lo introduce American stu clenls to a foreign language by mcana of its trodc terms Its doilnitlons are rich in tho German trade and business words and terms and the hook Is I mifllolcntly comprehensive com-prehensive to Include a pretty full and PractIcal selling forth of tho Iniloctlons and conjugations I ought to be a rljjhl useful work for the student True Love a Comedy of the Affections Iy Edith Wyalt Published by McClure Phillips Co Now York A story of Chicago and Cenlcrvlllc the scenes shlfl Ing prelly rogularly between the two places with ControvHlc having the better of It as regards honest humanity and decent de-cent purposes Chicago being made hopa llssly pretentious and humbug The characters char-acters Include two girls one straightforward straightfor-ward and plain setIng and the other a little fraud who tirotuglmt she was tread ing time heights of sublimity when In fact she was a prig A male prig of course i was time pattern she set her conduct by I The other man was a hustling practical I chap with no foolishness about him but I with I heart o gold and a helping liund Tho clearsighted girl comes lo her own In his heart ali the little fraud llnally wakes out of her droini and gets butter l than she has deserved The story Is told I with grace and rush and Is well adapted Ito I-to pass away a pleasant hour There should bo a good demand for It for light rcadlni I Anna of the Five Towns a Novel By Arnold Bennett Published by McClure Mc-Clure Phillips Company New York A story of Staffordshire and tho Isle of Man The girl Anna is brought up on I hard lines by a brutal and Incredibly scltlsh old miser o a father and has lo assort herself usually lo no purposox and I to do things scrrcplltlouly Unit slio in II fact has the right to do openly but is thwarted by him from so doing She Is kind and helpful and a girl of very strong character I Her lover Is I about as grasping and Hellish as her father hut she docs not know this when she promises to mar him and when she finds him out the affair af-fair has gone too far for reversal and she feels bound by her promise to marry him At the last she discovers that her heart I has gone out to a weak ncerdowtel who Is I really due In jail and who Is goIng go-Ing away to Australia She marries her lover and Is IL good wife I to him I Is a story that glvis glimpses of a ery vivid I and mean life In which however unusual un-usual characters arc molded and rood I characters are developed and straightened and tie auihor has done an admirable piece of work in planning and developing the story It Is attractive from Ilrst to t last and deserves to be in popular demand Edward W TOWn CIH1 the famous author au-thor of Chlmmle Faddcn comes before the public in an entirely new role In the publication of novel Lees and Leaven a New York slory of today published by l McClure Phillips Co New York It I is u work In which the authors great and minute knowledge of New York finds room for expression It portrays faithfully faith-fully and vividly the Goilmii as the publishers pub-lishers say the seething rushing New York of Jodny Here J Is shown the hustling hust-ling I nerveracking pageant the titanic struggles In the world of finance the huge hoaxes In sensational ncwspnncrdom the gay lliV of the theater opera restaurant and the calm and comfortable domestic scenes of wholesome living A beautiful lovestory Is carried along on the turbulent I turbu-lent stream a shining glory of human fnllh and devotion There Is a profuse collection of cluinictcrs all brought Into In-to Illustrate and exemplify the complex life of the great metropolis Mr Town scncl shows himself In this work to be possessed of lino artistic powers aud he makes his characters serve their different and difficult places In thai great checkerboard checker-board oC existence with a vivid power and sklH that ornaments every page It Is emphatically a novel for Americana by one who Is an American to the nerve of his backbone and should achieve an Immediate I Im-mediate ami brilliant success It Is conceded to be an nvcnt In the literary lit-erary world when Mrs Humphry Ward publishes a novel This will prove especially espe-cially so with her most recent one which has been running as a serial In Harpers Magazine and Is now published in book form by Harper t Brothers New York Its title Is Lady p THE ONLY TWO I 1IIJIIt I Th i14 7 1 JtL i 1 1 I I I I I Yes the Nowrlchcs reception after the horse show Hit other night was very select There were only two eotninon people there Who were they Mr and JIra Xcwrlcho I Rosos Daughter and It Is Issued In red binding a handsome book with eight full pago phologravurcH Aa with all of this authorn novel the art is I admirable and tho plot largely conceived con-ceived and thoroughly worked out It Is an antonlBhlng story one that It la Impossible Impos-sible to Imagine as true to any condition of normal society anywhere A daughter fulle born of a woman who hud deserted her husband lo her loer a palnlur the woman of uoblo blood tho painter I an anarchist an-archist This daughter raised In a convent con-vent after tho death of her parents suddenly sud-denly Hhows up In London and wins ex iraordlnary favor and social aud political 1 MICCCHS Few know her antecedents but from her place as companion to a great lady who In ulno an Irascible vixen amid whoso confidence she abuses tho adventuress adven-turess has society at her feet Cabinet l Ministers delight to do her will and ahc lakes part In the advancement of a number num-ber of young men One of these she fall desperately In IOVQ with but linda thai ho la engaged to marry her cousin ihi daughter of her mothers sister who fiat never departed from the right way of life In time meantime a loyal steady ant sturdy young1 man of tho nobility win Is I In the line of succession to a Dukedom and llnally Inherits H falls In love will Julie and offers her marriage she refuses re-fuses him Tho man she loves Captalr Wxirkvorlh gets through t her an np polntment he seeks lo a post of danger It Central Africa Just prior to starilnr he declares his Jove for Julie nnd 1 though adhering to his engagement to her cousin pleads with Julio to meet him In Parla secretly se-cretly and enjoy their mutual love for few days at a little hotel he knows o In the environs Sho agrees and arriving arriv-ing In Paris to kcop I the I Illicit appoint miill Is met at the depot by her Engllnl lordlover who Is there t on other I busl ness but suspects her errand He I tell her hat I her grandfather Is on his deathbed death-bed and hurries her back to London Shi IB furious with him and wild to keep hei ruinous appointment with Vnrkworth but has no chance to do so and ho ioci on his African expedition Ills deatl there tho death of Julies grandfather her own long and severe illncss the flnu straightening out oC her affairs arc the not all thoroughly threshed out Jn th story As we said It Is all bcautlfull written and nuikcs absorbing reading but there Is the feeling of unrcallt about It all that makes It Impossible ti think that anywhere anthin like I thL t could be a t picture of real I life There wll of course be a rush for the story everybody every-body will want to read It but It will no prove to be of lasting favor TIlE LOST LAND Wldcrshlns and round about Among the gorse and whin Open gates o1 Fairyland I Opo and lot me in Cold and cold the worlds way And the roads bard and weary Back I come lo tin lonely hill And thc old land o Faerie < i Cold wind on the heather Gold light In the sky Open gates o Fairyland Ope and lei me by I Wheres the trick I used to know 131llnloIIs arlnging1 Wheres the way lo the olflnland And the wide gate swinging Wldcrshlns and round about Among the t gonte and whin I Open gates o Fairyland Oiic and let me In Gold fetters on my feet And gold chains bind mo Lone I stand on the cold hillside And the gales barred behind me C Fox Smith in the London Outlook Keen and analytic as It Is Principal Falrbalrns sketch of James Martlncau which appears In the Living Age for Ieb I rimry 21sl might almost be called an appreciation ap-preciation I so sympathetic Is Its tone t Headers of all shades of theology I will Hut the article nolablc and significant A charming sketch of time School colony I at MandrossurVuIr sustained by the I XI tic arrondlsscmcnt of Paris as a summer I I sum-mer resort for Its school children appcars In the Living Age for February 21st from I tho pen of Sit Kdmund Vcrney Readers who have grown a trifle weary of the garden literature no much In vogui will enjoy the cleveisklt In the Living Age for February 2Sth which the Hon Mrs Anslruthcr names The Garden Wift Jn light gosHlppIng vein and yet full of subtle reflection Is the striking article called Kings and Queens which appears In the Living Age for February liSth The author the Counlcas Hilunc Vaearesco Is of the Roumanian court and writes will especial freshness and piquancy of Car men Sylva To hgr ruvlew of a recently pubilshcc volume of Talnes Correspondence Mme iimcirm tux Mary A F Robinson adds some delightful personal reminiscences not only of the philosopher himself but of hIs group of Intlmalcs The review will he In the Living Age for February Sth The Edinburgh Reviews careful and ap h prealallvc criticism of Mr Henry James 1 novels Is attracting much attention among English render Tll is reproduced entire lithe li-the Living Ago for March 7th There Is to be biography of Bret liar I u willtcn by Mr Kdgar Pemberton a friend of the novelist He I will write It I Is said not of the author but of the 11m Last years literary output In Englan was considerably In exccus of Hint of the preceding year thc llgures being SSI and 0011 There was a slight Increase In tim oloz and a considerable increase In lie lion There was an Increase also In publications in Limo fields ol art and science hut history and biography have been In a stable condition for the lust three years Morlcys life of Gladstone It Is nov supposed will not bo ready for publication publica-tion before the autumn Curiously enough the longexpected biography of the rival statesman Disraeli will ho brought out about the t satnc time Mr Morley WL arc told has retained for his own us < about COO volumes from Lord Acton Ibl rAn r-An English mngalnc ha introduced I n serial of a novel kind 1 described as A Honmnc That Is Never to Kml 1 I 1Itho introductory paragraphs it Is explained The principle upon which this story Is 1 constructed Is very slim lilt We fokethe I chief events of the month and use thorn as the central Incidents of a series of short storlts each of which while corn plelo In Itself is linked on to all Its predecessors and to those which com n Her It by l Its bearing upon the fortune of till Gordon family whose widely Hcnllercd mumbsisi arc at time heart of moft human tufa Irs In all parls of the world 1 Jt Is a daring experiment and It la I a matter of doubt how many reader will take to an Interminable serial wit Iv reference to which they ruin never tell how It lu golnir lo cone out OMINOUS 0 men an omen oft you nee Hut do not lei one trouble you Unless the omen chance to lie Preceded by a YIn Y-In that case It In wo men aOl a-Ol women and the trick 01 them Is Just to wall and liavo thlr way Untll you take your pick of them Felix Carmen In Life The new letters of Mrs CarJyle whIch arc aoon to appear were annotaud by her husband It ui long since we have tJln a reforvnco to that hulfsad halfUidl crous storv told by Dickons conccrnln this lady nnd that other clever and sharp longueif personage Mrs Proctor rIme I two wenl to breiikfini with Royors 11110 A morning In those days not lontj before he died when tho old poet was somewhat anderlng and I dreamy Both dames were excessively talkailvc very cjulck and clever and bent on entertaining him hell Mrs Carlylu had lashed and lione before him for about thrccciuar tOms of nn hour on one subject he turned his poor old eyes on Mrs Pi odor and loluilng to thu brilliant discoursed with hIs poor old linger snld Indlgnanily Who In she1 Upon this Mrs Proctor tilting In delivered It Is her own story a neat oration on time life and wrllingfl of Ccirlylo and enlightened him In tile inpplcst and all leal manner all of which h ie hoard staring In the dreariest sl cncv and then said Indignantly ns before be-fore And who time you l When Harpers Magazine Is being irlntvd the women who cue employed to sort or gather together tile different lections nf ony copy of the t periodical I uindlu 1000010 or these sections In one day This gives Homo Idea of the work nvolvcd In gelling out one edition of u opular magazine A statistician in tIme larper factory hac also computed that siuh of these womun while gathering ogother the separate seclions of time I Magazine preparatory io binding ualks Irom live lo seven miles a day Tho women are incredibly swift or move neni their hands whirring back and forum like hummingbirds and In cot 1 cctlnir the scparalu suctions tram the great while plies of printed sheets tilt eye cnn scarcely follow tholr rapid mo Ion In cases of extra editions like hat I of Christmas the above figures arc largely Increased If Mr Howells were to have his way lrlK would read PoetrY and fiction least and last Comparatively few probably err nowadays In reading poetry toexcess but as to fiction that Is an cllier mailer Mr llowellSi I places among the Indispensable elements ot a girls reading history biography travels I studies In the speculative and exact sckncts and philosophical and critical essiiys One might almost Imagine lIm l to be jciiliriK Furlher he has this to say about novelfi all In Harpers linear Most novels arc worse than worthless I not because they are wicked hut because they are sIlly and hnlplcrsly false Among the worst of the worse than t worlhle > s arc the historical novels which pervert nnd distort history not FO much because the authors are willfully Indifferent to the facts as because llioy have not thc historical his-torical sense A very very few novels of this kind are above contempt but these arc uo good that they redeem nil their kind Some of Scotts but not many Matmuds lOr Promcssl Sposl I Slrndhnls Clinrtrcuse do Pnrme Tel Slots War and Pence DAzeglloh Nlcolo de Lunl and the novels of 13rek maiinChalrlan treating of the Napoleonic Napoleon-ic campHlgTiH arc books of such superlative superla-tive excellence as to give one pause In any headlong censure of the class they dignify But whon a poor girl has rend them xvhitl shall she do Go on front them to worsc novels l By no means she must go buck lo thc best antI read them again and keep reading them and them only Some of the qualities which show them selves In Mrs Humphrey Wards llctioi may be explained I by the I fan that I sin has been fortunate always In having continual I domestic nsxoclatlon with brll liar I men Site la the daughter of Thomas Thom-as Arnold a granddaughter of tIme famous fa-mous DI Arnold of Rugby nnd a niece of Matthew Arnold Her husband Thomas Thom-as Humphrey I Ward Is it man of unususi attainments and culture who IH perhaps best known for his edition of thc English Poets BABYLONIAN OHtGIN OF THE BIBLE A synopsis of Prof Frlcdrlch Delltzschs lecture upon the results of his recent nrcheologlcal Investigations at Babylon which him become famous owing to the mingled praise and censure of the Ger man Emperor who heard II i I has nppearci III the Vosl she Xeltung of Berlin and Is triinshiled In the current number of the Literary Digest The bold iconoclnsm l of Dr Dclltzsch may be Judged from the following extracts There Is no greater mistake that the human mind has made than to suppose thai m the Bible Is the personal revolallot of God The contents of the Bible In many ways antagonize this view How I do matters bland with reference to the Tea Commandments In the light of scientific rcscircir Jt can be reiclll shown thai changes and additions of aim essential character were made In these at various times If the Ten Commandments are the revelation of God then Moses himself him-self was one of the first sinner igalns them not only by breaking the stone tablets tab-lets but by I giving different versions that do not harmonise The Book of Job contains passage that virtually amount to blasphemies Time Song of Songs Is full of secular uongs or carnal lust and the efforts of prcjudlcci Interpreters to find In It higher rcllgiou Ideals signally fall Scientific theology ha long ago recognized the truth that the Scriptures came Into being by the gradua accretion of various literary document Into a canon A r tally honest confessloi of time heart must admit that we remLily do not need any jurther revelation than that found In our own selves One of the Interesting developments or the I controversy t that thus arisen over Prof Dclllzschs address Is I the criticism that lois come not only from orthodox theologians which of course was to be expected lint from the specialists In syrlology who Inslsl that the professors sweeping Infer cnces as to thc Babylonian origin of the Bible are rot warranted by the facts THE TEN BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN CHIL-DREN Why should grow nup folks have a monopoly mo-nopoly of lists of best books St NIch olns the wellknown childrens magazine has been Inviting the opinion of its read crs upon the best books for children uncle 10 years of age and In December awardu the prize to the child who sent In this list Alice In Vonderland Lewis Carroll A Childs Garden of Y scsnuJelt Louis Stevenson 11111 liircia ijiriHimai < UOIHlalO Douglas VIggln Gicek Heroes Charles Klugaley Hans Brlnicer Mary Mapus Dodge King of the Golden River John fur ItII Little Lord Fnuntlcroy t France Uoclsaon I Burnett N TIn Frlncu and the Pauper Marl r vimm tim VatorBabIcB Charles Klngslcy The Wonder Book Nathaniel Haw t Ii a rim C In Its January Issue SI Nlcholan publishes pub-lishes another list showing In the orde of preference Ihe ten mosl popular books as they appear In the multitude of ropllc scnl lii for the competition Little Lord Faunllcroy France Ilodzson Burnett Mice l In Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Wonder Book Nathaniel Jlaw thurnt The Birds Christmas CnrolKlllo Douglas Wlijgln Wild Animals I Have Known Ernes ThompsonSolon VatcrnnblcsChnrles Klngslov The Jungle Uookn lludyard Kipling Mhick Dca II yAnl1a Scwell Nights with Cncle RemlNToel Chandlr harris CltanclUjr Gnrdell oC Verses Rober Louis Slcvenscon The Lamp formerly Iho Book Buyer I IIIH13 time fhsl IJt IL good Jilt tutu the I see milI far n1lllO Intrcg1 The dIffer CIHU It lYI Il jUHt IImIs till IIlst list Is IItI t OttO 81 Klehnlas lhlllls 11 I the beet if aU UIOHC submitted while time seconc list represents the opinionsof the children llnmsclvei |