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Show I 1 REVIEWS OF BQOKS1 II I ESSAYS BY DE. ELIOT. : i Tlie Durable Satisfactions of Life. By I . 1 Chavlos W. EIIol. Published by Thomas Hj Y. Crowd! & Co., New York. H ' No ono is better' qualified than the illustrious ex-president of Harvard col- 3eeo to. deal with subjects related to H j this title. Ho himself is a conspicuous illustration -of a man who has reaped H some of the highest and most durable H satisfaction that 'any human Hfo can H provide. In these essays, five in mini- ber, lie discusses, first, the solid saus- factions that may come to an educated H man through his cultivated tastes and I ; ' his intellectual interests. The cquclud-j cquclud-j j t ing seritoiice of the advice given in this H is that a man should "livo today and j t ev6ry day like a man iof honor,'' ,and surely nothing is better than that. , Then he discusses "The Happy Life" 1 and in connection with it, tho moral ' purpose of tho universe; and here he i pays his respects to the difficulties that I 'j a man feels in tho modorn scurry in j living a life of thoughtful happiness. Tho next essay, "John Gilley." gives the biography of a Maine man who M i was fisherman and farmer, who lived an i lionorod, useful life, full of toil and or H j liumblo achievement. , Tho next, "Great Riches,." treats of I J the achievement of men in money- j gathering which is altogether in excess I of their gains in personal satisfaction, ' i since the time of the civil war. The ' . vast acumulations of money in few . liands is shown to bo, while m some , respects a menace to the country's bet- ter sentiment, also lacking in sati6fac- ' ; tion to the accumulator, who gets little I ' ' out of it after all in advance of what I .tho man of more humble means may I ' ' even more fuly enjoy. , 1 Tho last essay, "The Bohgion of the : Future," is the much discusod "new Teligion," which President Eliot has I ' been so much praised and blamed for I ' -putting forth. It is a lecture delivered I ( at tho close of tho eleventh session of I ' f the Harvard Summer School of Theql-I Theql-I of". July 22, 1900, and is materialistic , and human throughout; From it is U banished theoloiry as it is commonly ' understood and all elements of super-I super-I titition and the supernatural. The final I paragraph of this essay is ns follows: I Flnallv, this twcntleth-ccntury' religion ' , is not only to be in harmony with the I great secular movements of modern soil so-il cloty (lemoeracj-. Individualism, social idealism, the zeal for education, the spirit m of research, the modern tendency to wel-I wel-I come the new. the fresh powers of pre-I, pre-I, ventatlvc medicine, and the recent ad-I ad-I , i winces In business and Industrial ethics I ! t but also In essential agreement with the I I direct, personal teachings of Jesus, just I r , as thev are reported in the Gospels. The I 7 revelation he gave to mankind thus be-I be-I ' comes more wonderful than ever. I $ THE WOMAN'S SIDE OF IT. I W . IF .A Circuit Rider's Wife. By Cotra: Harris. I ' With Illustrations by William H. Ever- I .- , elt. Published by Henry Altomus Com- I r i pany, Philadelphia. I I Jf this" is the genuine production of I an old lady who had passed her youth I and her middle age as the wife of a I circuit rider in the Methodist church, If as the scheme of it purports to be, I it is certainly a remarkable production. , t is full of keen criticism, of humor. h and of ill-roprcsscd scorn for a good many of the things she encountered dur- I I ; dug her wayfaring through life. There I, . ' is nothing in it that is absolutely ir- religious, to be sure, but there is a f, guod deal of human-nature contempt for the constant denunciation of the world I and of the tilings of the world hi favor 1 of an exalted hereafter which it is our duty to live up to, without knowing J ' i .exactly what to expect, j ; The scene is laid in northern Georgia in the backwoods riding circuits,. The woman goes as a girl to her duties as a minister's wife, and falls into dcop , discouragement and gloom as the pros- j pect; but her spirit rises above tho temporary ill and she comes out tri-1 tri-1 umphant. Thirty years of a skimping life in impoverished circuits would seem j ,a precarious lot for a woman of vi- 1 "vacity and temperament, and yet this circuit rider's wife passed those thirtj j years with an enduring faith in her i husband and a kindly interest in all the 1 different people with whom she came ju contact. At the last, however, tho 'dreaded superannuation comes for the old preacher and soon after, feeling himself to be a more cumberor of the . earth, he passes to tho hereafter which ' 'be has made the g'lory of his life. In introducing her work this circuit rider's wife says: "But now, aftor an absence of nearly thirty years, I am : -addressing this series of letters to the veople of tho world concerning life and conditions in another, removed from : this one bv tho length of country roads, ' -by the thickness of church doors, and , by the plate class surface of tho reli gious mind. They will record some experiences ex-periences of two Methodist itinerants, : and 'whatever I tliink besides, for they ! are written more particularly to relieve my mind of a very great burden of opin-i. opin-i. , ions, for William hns been promoted. , He has received his LL. D. in tho kingdom of heav.en by. this time, if there are any degrees or giving of de-i de-i grees there, along with Mosns and Eli- ,iah. And I doubt if there is a more re- ) spotted Saint in that great company," Some of her. comments are cortainly worth attention, as when she says; "I never knew but one pastor who told the whole truth in a funeral sermon, and he had to be moved immediately toy his i presiding elder. The whole community regarded It as one of tho most brutal . outrages that had ever been perpetrated ) In their midst." 1 ', A woman Is .a very poor creature. I i think she hankers more Just for love than " she does for heaven. I don't know how 1 . she will get on In a place where there i Is neither marrying nor giving in mar- ' rlagc. It's ound to be hard on her if - the Lord does not give her something 1 i more than u harp and a golden crown y with which to fill tho aching void she Is 1 sure to have sqmewhere under her breast H feathers." ' At the last the old lady, worn and j beaten in tho stress of life. 'goes to .' livs with nn older sister in New York, but this sister has lived a more worldly J life, and looks ten years younger than i her sister who has spent her life ns : tho wife of an itinerant pronchcr, This aarouses a little pang of jealousy, and ; the new life seems to her something . very much out of place, and yet she ' has the fair common scuro to say: "I ; I have not been morally offended by any- H-: i thing I have 'con in tho theaters or other places of nmusoment, but I have 1 had 'conscientious ecruplcs about the : churches here. This would be tho Sab- ,'. Ijath day far away in the country, where .. I the lulls are at prayer and the pine i trees swing their shadows over tho lied- wino churchyard. But hero in Now ; York it is merely tho day when you H' change your occupations and amuse- ') monts. Still, thero is preaching for those . Who are not drunk or asleep, or in the pnrks, or at Coney Island, or giving B': week-end parties at their country places ; or planning the millennium without God along socialistic scantlings of thought , '' and barbed wire theories of thovbroth- erhood of man." The work as a whole is ono tnat is ; .qmiiyjntlv worth the reading, and is .. ospocially worth attention where she : makes pointed and heartfelt criticisms upon the poor pay of the circuit ridor, M tbo lack of advantages at his com mand, and tho rut into which ho inovit-ably inovit-ably is forced by the onginery of his organization and his calling. It is .a raro thing indeed for a backwoods cir cuit rider to rise to any prominence in the church, or oven to a comfortable life plane, being deprived of the advantages ad-vantages of association and of study, and being so hampered m moans and so lacking of helpful friendship. As a cry from tho heart of a woman whose life has been spent almost in vain, tho book is 'worth tho attention of the American public, and specifically the recognition and considerate atatention of those who rule in tho Methodist church. A FINE YORKSHIRE STORY. The Doctor's Lass. By Edward C. Booth. The Century Co., Publishers, New York. This is a story tho scenes of which nro laid in the East Riding of Yorkshire, York-shire, as was "Tho Post Girl" by the samo author. Jane, "the Doctor's Lass," and the heroine of this novol, is own sister to Pam, tho post girl of the former novol, who 'was a most admirable ad-mirable heroine, and tho novel itself was ono of the finest in its year. Tho pith of the story is that a strong-minded, strong-minded, fine-grained English woman, Jano's mother, while dying begs tho Yorkshire country doctor, whose young manhood she had wrecked, to take her little daughtor for his ward. Unwillingly, Unwil-lingly, bitterly, ho docs so. Then tho girl's fragrant sweetness and charm win first, his tolerance, then all his heart. Jano is a bewitching sprite of a girl, and, of course, she has more than one lover. Her fnther, a dissolute vng-.abond, vng-.abond, who uncxpectedl' appoars on the sceno; a narrow and straight-laced suitor, an Episcopal clergyman; the taciturn, tac-iturn, lovable doctor, form a trio of characters whose tangled relations and misunderstandings form the fabric, of a story unusualh- dramatic and picturesque pictur-esque Between the two, the girl and the doctor lead the whole neighborhood a merry chase, scorning instinctively to understand each other and to work out mutual results and understandings without with-out words but with sufficient clearness to keep everybody elso out. The publishers pub-lishers have put tho book put in handsome hand-some form with a frontispiece in color b' Denman Fink which is a work of art. j THE LATEST ROSTAND. Chantcclcr: a Play in Four Acts. By i Edmond Rostand Translated by Gertrude Ger-trude Hall. Duffield & Company, Publishers, Pub-lishers, New York. This is the play which roused such a furore in Pans and scorned for a time to set Ihe theatrical world afire. Tho actors in it are first, of course, tho dominant " Chanticlcr," then the Blackbird, Black-bird, tho Peacock, the Nightingale, the Grand-Buke, the Screech Owl, the Game-Cock, the Hunting Dog, tho Carrier-Pigeon, the "Woodpocker, the Turke3', the Duck, the Young Guinea-Cock, Guinea-Cock, the Pheasant-Hen,, the Guinea-Hen, Guinea-Hen, the Old Hen, tho White Hen, the Grey Hen. the Black Hen, the Speckled Hen, the Tufted Hen. Besides those principals there are a gander, a capon, chickens, chicks, a cockerel, a swan, a cluckoo, night-birds, fancy cocks, a woodland warbler,. a spider, a heron, a pigeon, a guinea pig, barnyard animals, woodland creatures, rabbit's, birds, bees, j cicadas and voices. j Tho play seems to have gone with a great rush and to have evoked tremendous tremen-dous enthusiasm in Paris. It is very llikclj- that with modifications it would have quite a run in the cities of this country, but it certainly would take a great deal of money to sta -e it properly. proper-ly. The "-costume's," if we may so designate the makeup of the actors and actresses, must be rich and fairly true to life, and must afford effective disguise, dis-guise, Tho play itself seems an absurdity ab-surdity altogether, but the absurdity on thc stage is what often 'makes tho .best hit. We should like to see the play produced in Salt Lake, and doubtless doubt-less it will be here in the course of time. In the meantime, those who undertake to read the play will find that it hardly justifies the expectations expecta-tions created by the furore reported on its production in Paris. A RHINEHART MYSTERY. The Window at the While Cat. By Mary Roberts Rinehnrt, With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. The Bobbs-Mor-111 Company, Publishers, Indianapolis. This window at tho White Cat was surely a wonderful window. It wus overlooked by a window of tragedy in an adjoining warehouse, and the two windows furnish the mysteries of the story. The author takes pains to make those mysteries as baffling as possible and to add -one after another to the complications. Thero is an old lady who is a runaway but who was sup-posedto sup-posedto have boon murdered or kidnaped, kid-naped, and the twp stories intermingle in a way that is inextricable for a time. This author by her previous stories, "The Circular Staircase," "The Man in Lower Ten, "'(which Tho Tribune hns printed as a serial). "When a Man Marries" (which The Telegram is now running ns a sorial). has made a great impression upon the American public. She is recognized ever3rwheroas ono of the most ingenious and fcrtilo story-writers story-writers of the day, and in this fascinating fascinat-ing narrative she shows us a fine exemplification ex-emplification of her powers at their best. AN UNQTJAKERISH QUAKER, Tho Quaker Boy: a Talc of the Outgoing Out-going Generation ns It Appears Chronicled Chron-icled in the Autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham. The Cochrane Publishing Pub-lishing Company, New York. It is curious that stories of Quakers gonerally take the Quaker hero entirely out of the Quaker onvironmcnt and put him doing things wholly unquakerish and in consonance with tho doings of "the world" outside. This Quaker boy is not in tho least known for his Quaker qunlitics but for tho good, red blood thnt is in him, and for the doing of things such as men.younp and old, have constantly been doing since the world began. In the story there is a "book" of nine chapters devoted to the war of tho rebellion, four of those describing tho invasion of Pennsylvania by General Gen-eral Leo and the throo days' battlo of Gettysburg, which description is faitli-ful faitli-ful to history and very well written. INFORMATION ON RAILROADS. The Railway Library, 1900: a Collection of Noteworthy Chapters, Addresses, and Papers Relating to Railways. Mostly Published During tho Year. Compiled and Edited by Slason Thompson. Manager Man-ager of the Bureau of Railway News and Statistics. Chicago, Gunthorp-War-run Printing Company, Chicago. This is a most interesting and valuable valu-able book, giving facts, statistics, and arguments in convenient form that it would bo difficult to have access to otherwise. Thero is an interesting intro-ductign, intro-ductign, then a description of tho "Prc-Kailwaj' "Prc-Kailwaj' Era in Amorica." Following this we have the first annual report of the Pennsylvania Jtailroad, company, then "Railways and the Pacific Northwest," North-west," by James J. Hill; "Southern Railways and Their Needs," by John F. Wallace; "Problems Confronting American Railways," by Daniel Wif-lard; Wif-lard; "The American Railroad Situation Situa-tion of Today," by Frank Trumbull: "Transportation Charge and Prices," by Logan G. McPherson; "Tho Freight Rate Primer, Progressive Safety in Railway Operation," by A. H. Smith; "Railway Mail Pay," .by Julius Krutt-schnitt; Krutt-schnitt; "Tho Diminished Purchasing Power of Railway Earnings," by C. C. McCain; "Tho Railroads and Public Approval," by Edward P. Ripley; "Railroads and tho Public," by John C Spoonor; "Railroad Problems of Today," by J. B; Thayer; "Tho Relation Re-lation of tho Railroads to tho State," by W. M. Acworth, M. A.; "Railway Nationalization," by Sir George S. Gibb; "Concerning Advances in Railway Rail-way Rates," and "Statistics of American Ameri-can Railways for 1909." LITERARY NOTES. Messrs. Archibald Constablo fc Co. of London have just taken over from Messrs. Henry Holt and Company the English markot of Mr. and Mrs. C William Beobc's "Our Search for a Wilderness." which, If the critics are right, seems to be an unusually entertaining blend of science and adventure in Venezuela and British Guiana. ' Another Sherlock Holmes is about to make his appearance in contemporary fiction. His name Is Paul Beck and his adventures are for the most part so strikingly original that they make fascinating fas-cinating reading. Whether he Is extracting extract-ing a confession from the guilty secretary secre-tary of .a murdered millionaire, unmasking unmask-ing a French count who was the smartest smart-est diamond thief in the world, or befriending be-friending a beautiful Spanish prisoner, the Invincible Paul Beck Is always ccpial to the occasion. The American rights for Paul Beck's exploits have been secured se-cured by Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, who will publish "Tho Quests of Paul Beck" early In September. "The Wild Olive," -which is roported by the impartial literary magazine. The Bookman, to be the best-selling novel In the United States. Is being reprinted again this week by Harper &. Brothers. "The Wild Olive" Is hy the author of "The Inner Shrine," which was the best-sclllng best-sclllng novel last summer, according to The Bookman's figures for two months. "The Power and the Glory' n new novel by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Is now on sale. It is a story of an upnpringlng and conquering self-reliant girl of our southern mountains. In her determined fight for success you see clearly the power and the glory In one who truly wears the "sandals of- joy." The publishers, pub-lishers, Doubleday, Page & Company, announce an-nounce an antcpubllcatlon sale of over seven thousand "copies. Tho first "Napoleon" book of the autumn au-tumn will be Tlghe -Hopkins's "The Women Napoleon loved." in which this painstaking and talented English author has, after assiduous research, set forth Napoleon's relations with the other sex. The book, adorned with six photogravure portraits, will bo imported and published by Little," Brown &. Co.. Boston. Ernest A. Gardner, professor of archaeology archae-ology in tho University of London, ex-presses ex-presses a broad'vlow of- tho effect of art upon religion In the volume entitled-"Religion and Art In Ancient Greece.." which lie has contributed to Harper's' Library of Living. Thought "It is instructive." he-says, " to turn to. a system in Which Idolatry, the worship of Images, was an essential part of orthodox religious observance. ob-servance. It is easy and customary with a certain .class of minds to dismiss all such examples of Idolatry with a superficial super-ficial generalization such as 'the heathen in' his blindness bows, down to wood and stone,' JBut it seems worth while to devote de-vote a short study to an attempt to un-dorstand un-dorstand how such a system worked In the case of a people like the ancient Greeks" And again: "There Is no essential es-sential reason why the contemplation of a beautiful statue, embodying a worthy conception of deity, should not be as conducive to a state of worship and communion com-munion as an impressive ritual or ceremony, cere-mony, or any other aid to devollon." Mr. Bram Stoker, novelist and blog-rapher blog-rapher of Henry Irvine, has .lust wrlt- ten a book which ought to afford good entertainment under the title Famous Impostors. Sturgls & Walton promise It for fall publication. The world likes to read of the great Impostors who have duped It. and this volume tells of famous swindlers, charlatans, char-latans, and pretenders who have, many of them, achieved notoriety In two hemispheres. hem-ispheres. The authorship should bo an assurance that It will be both amusing and carefully documented. Treating of an Interesting phase of social history, it Is also a curious study of human gullibility. gulli-bility. Various types of swindlers, humbugs, hum-bugs, pretenders and mystngogues are presented pretenders to the throne of the lost Sebastian of Portugal. "Princess Olive." pretender to the English throne, the "false Czar." and in more recent times the Humberts. Madame DIs de. Bar. Dowle. and a strange group of men who, for their own purposes, passed JEM themselves oft for women, and of worsen 91 who passed themselves off for men. 'sn |