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Show BOOK FOR SPORTSMEN. W.!i5 f jit 0 Conservation ! n Tbeoi"y ami Prucik-o: I-.f-l tires Delivered Before the Fnreat .School 01 Yluo l.'niv.r.sltv, Ky Willimn T. Uornaday, Sic. 1). "With n Chapter on Private Game E're-ervos E're-ervos by Frederic C. Walt ott. Fub-iiyhe-i by Yule University Press, Now Haven. Conn. Thy author, who is a director of tlio New York .uolofiical park, 1b eminently lined to write authoritatively on this subject, sub-ject, one dear alike to euortsmen and .overs of wild animal life. Mr. Uornaday Uorna-day has ffone to no little trouble and expense ex-pense in com pi liny diita on this Important subject and the results of his res-eairh are at once scu riling and of intense interest. in-terest. "Had the same birds ami game quadrupeds of the United StatL-a." he ntat.es in biy opening chapter, "been 71 roper! y and conscientiously conserved from the beginning- until now. the wild buiialo, elk, deer, turkey, c rouse of various vari-ous species, ducks and "wild sjecse would today be yielding 10 us oaeh vtair $10.-'HX-,000 worth of good food tha t" had cost only $500,000 for warden service to manage it n nd protect It from unlawful killing;." Attain he states: "The army of destruction that annually takes t he Held ag-ftlnst wild life, openly and according ac-cording to law, contains at least ,ti-i2J!'4 men and boys. Through a little investigation investi-gation we found !n 1011 that twenty-seven twenty-seven of our states Issued hunting licenses, li-censes, and that the total number actually ac-tually iPsued for that year was or an average of v0.04t Cor each Pt.ite." Vie estimates that the twenty-one states not issuing hunting" licenses font as many hunters per capita Into tho field in I&U as did the other states, and these, computed on existing avernycf, make a grand total fur that year of more than 2.6CO.0OO. In speaking of the conditions in t'tal'i, Mr. .1 (ornaday wri Uf: "Us stock of prame. excepting the migratory ducks of 3roat Pull lake, is at. a very low point. The population of the stnt" is only 37.1, CM. but in 1911 that stat sent an army of 27.S00 well-armed men Into the held acainst her pitiful romnant of game birds and cjuadrupetls." The volume, which contains in excess of C30 pages, makes many other stanlin disclosures, and the work will doubtless do much to stimulate discussion and the enactment of laws that will be of much benefit not only to the many species of wild animal life that are becoming all but ; extinct, but to nature lovers and all true sportsmen. The book is interspersed with many excellent illustrations from photographs. photo-graphs. A CHRISTMAS STOEY. . The Bur?!ar a.nd the Blizzard: A Christmas Christ-mas Story. By Alice Duer Miller. Author Au-thor of "The" Blue Arch" and Other .Stories. With Illustrations by Charlotte l-faroing. Published by Hearst's International Inter-national Jjibrary Company, New York. Geoffrey Holland, a young man of wealth and standing, had stopped over In Xew Y'ork with the expectation of spending spend-ing the holidays at his suburban home, Hillsborough. learning there had been several robberies committed in this suburb, sub-urb, he hastened his depaiture and was surprised upon entering his home to 11 nd the burglar at work. And no ordinary burglar It wns, for on bfcing told that he would be turned over to the officers of the law, asked in the most nonchalant manner tliat he bo allowed to go after his sister, who was established In an abandoned hut come distance away. This proposition Holland refused to entertain, and he was then requested to himself po after the burglar's sister. Holland showed his surprlso at such un usual requests from a burglar whom he had made his prisoner and decided It was a scheme to get him into the hands of n gang of thieves. Thinking there might be fi glimmer of truth In the story and not wishing to have a woman suffer from cold on such a blizzard y night, he decided de-cided to undertake the errand, first locking lock-ing his prisoner In a closet, lie found a most beautiful and accomplished young, "woman and discovered she was In total ignorance of her brother's nefarious occupation, oc-cupation, a nd he decided not to inform her, at least at that time. Quite a strange Christmas party that gathered around the table that Christmas Christ-mas day a burglar, his inticent and lovely sister and the man he had robbed. Events now hapoen in quirk succession and the climax is a most happy one. even for the burglar. The author has handled her story wonderfully well and the result ib a most breezy and entertaining story, fold In a hanpy-go-free manner, as all good Cbristmns stones should be. j HONESTY IN BUSINESS. j Trade "Morals: Their Origin, Growth and Province. By Edward D. Page. Published Pub-lished by YaJe University Press, New JJaven, Conn. Trade morals Is a subject of the utmo-t importance In the ethical procress of our race and Mr. Page furnishes a convincing answer to the ni?n who says that the world has not progressed mora Ily t since the middle ages, or who asserts that present-day business success is won only at. the sacrifice of good faith and fair dealing. The author is eminently well fitted to advise on this subject. For nearly t'ortv y ea rs he wn s en ga ged in the dry good a rommifston business and, advancing from the foot of the ladder to its head, ended as senior partner of one of the most important im-portant houses in his line, in New York and Boston. Close touch with ma mi factor! fac-tor! ng conditions was superadded to 't lie training of commercial tra vel covering all of the Important trade centers east of rhe Rockies, thus acquiring an intimate knowledge of the trade customs of all sections. In 1K4 he served eis a member mem-ber of tho committee of sevent In New York City, was active in the qood government gov-ernment movement and. later, one of the organizers of the Citizens' union. J h: Investigated In-vestigated the exchanges as one of th Hughes commission of 1!09. and for more 1 ban a decade has headed the. vert' active committee on commercial law of tne Merchants' Mer-chants' assoeia lion of New York. For years his vocation has been the study of economics and sociology. His work has the Interest of originality Nowhere elfe is there available so careful care-ful a study of the philosophy of trade. The author lias reached Ids conclusions first-hand. His studies In business ethfea are the oijtcomo of experience: an nt'fort to explain I he problems arising and the conclusions practiced during main- vears of successful business relations. His book has, therefore, tho conviction of reality. TRAVESTY ON MEDICINE. Cured! The 70 AdvenLures of a Dyspeptic. Dyspep-tic. By Hrta n Boru Dunne. Foreword by IT. G. YYells. With cartoons by Gugh Doyle a nd rover dcslcn bv T7n-rico T7n-rico Monettl. Published by the John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia. This book, thonch ronsi-dently witty and humorous thr oughout, has in Its con- J elusion many of the earmarks- of an e.x-plol e.x-plol la t ion eampaiqn for o: u lists. Tho last treat merit ami the only effective one iried by this remarkable vhiik: man was for his eyes and the fitting uf eyeglasses eye-glasses which suited his peculiar condition. condi-tion. In a period com pi i si 11- some eight years Mr. Dunne underwent scvenlv different dif-ferent treatments, nme proving efHca-Woue efHca-Woue until the la nr. The dw-loiH dium, using us-ing Ids case arrived at diffenmi conclusion conclu-sion anl in ff cases did anv two agree. 1 le tried dieting and he t ned gorniandl.ing: he tried climbing hills, running. swimming, bicycle riding, at different periods, a nd v;i rimis ot her -rierlments In the hope of alleviating his suffering; but all witii I he same ,-es.ult--h!s malady showed no signs of responding respond-ing to any of the Ircatumnts. nn the reeommendat tun o'" a en 1 im n inn In; even disrardod all professional advj.-e ;in! plunged Into dissipation, only tu find tii.il hi a trouble lem me more acute. The j same friend then urged that ho try ro-" mance as a proiiable cure, but this also failed to benefit. il was only after he had stoically abondoncd himself to his fate and 11 was suggested to him that his malady had origin in his eyes that he happened upon a cure. i Though something of a travesty upon the medical profession, it is safe to predict that physicians themselves will enjoy a perusal of "Cured!" no less than the i general reader. STORIES OF MYSTERY. Incredible Adventures. Bv Algernon Rlackwood. Published by the Macmil-lan Macmil-lan Company, New York. This volume comprises a group of stories, each dealing with the manifestations manifesta-tions of things unseen, the dimly recognized recog-nized elemental forces that are often called "supernatural" because ot" our ln-a ln-a blllfy to men h ure them with our finite rules, but which are considered by many thinkers to be perfectlv normal expressions expres-sions of esta blished laws, but vaguely understood. The stories are five in number num-ber and of these "The Regeneration of Lord Krnie" Is unquestionablv the best and the. most Impressively written. He describes the ceremonies of the etrange pagan peoples, whose worship of the. fire a nd wind is modeled upon the a nefent rites of the mysteries. This description 1 is so far beyond the ordinary capacity ! to convey that quotation Is the most advniitagcous method. High on the wind-swept mountain plateau the traveler trav-eler sees the huge pyres, blazing In the midnight and the author seems to have become imbued with the unparalleled majesty of the scene. "Of varying, yet calculated size, these towering heaps emitted notes of measured meas-ured and alternating depth, until the roar along the entire line produced a definite scale almost of melody, the near ones shrilly singing, those more distant booming with mountainous pedal notes. The consonance; was monstrous, yet conformed con-formed tn some magnificent diapason. iiue cuuiu ui rire-music paced tne tire-II tire-II t sky, directed, but 7iot overmastered, by the wind that measured it somehow into meaning. Repeated In quick succession, succes-sion, the notes now era shing in a mass, now singing alone in solitary beauty, the ' effect suggested an idea of ordered sequence, se-quence, of gigant Ic rhythm. Ir seemed. , indeed, as though some controlling agency, mastering excess, coerced Win raging elements to express through ' this stupendous dance some definite idea. , Here, as It ere, was the alphabet of , some natural, undifferentin ted language, ! a language of sight and sound, predat- I ing speech, symbolical In the ultimate deific sense. Some lord of fire and sume lord of air were In command. Harnessed and regulated, these formless cohorts of energy that men cull stupidly mere flame a nd wind, obeyed a higher power t ban had Invoked them. yet. a power that bv understanding 1 heir laws of being held him most admirably in control. 11 seemed he had a cosmic body In which new centers stirred in life, linking him to this source of natural forces." The other stories are "The Sacrifice." "The Damned," "A Descent Into Fgvpt" and "Ya yfarers." While these stories cannot be said to compare with the first mentioned, they are all away from t he conventional path of literature, and those de?tring a change from the usual routine rou-tine will find them ail engrossing. THE SUFFRAGETTE'S HOPE. My Own Story. By Emmeline Pank-hurst. Pank-hurst. Illustrated. Published bv Hearst's International Library Co", New York. Mrs. Fankhurst here writes with a sincerity sin-cerity tliat cannot be questioned, and her story will no doubt throw a new light on the hopes and alms of the militant movement move-ment which she so strenuously advocates. While the methods adopted by this body of women will be strongly disapproved of 'by many, the cause in which the women are enlisted will receive the support sup-port of a vast number. Most of the events here rela ted precede the visit of Mrs. Pan.khurst to the United States in October, 11)13, where by lecturing she was enabled to add to the coffers of the militancy mili-tancy cause a sum ;i, , ees of '2,U'iij. Mrs. Pankhurat plaiw. forth that on account or the med conflict now raging in Kurope. t..e cause of militancy mili-tancy has been merely placed in abev-ance abev-ance and will be resumed when peace is restored. She adds; "When the clash of arms ceases, when normal, peaceful, ra- demand will again be made. If it is not quickly granted, then once more the women will take up the arms they today generously lay down. .There can be no lea) peace In the world until woman, the mother half of the human familv, is given liberty in the councils of" the work!." The book is finely illustrated. Is presented pre-sented in excellent style and will he found good reading bv all who have taken an interest in the remarkable career ca-reer of Mrs. Fankhurst and the cause she represents. A CLEVERLY TOLD TALE. The I .a st Christian. By George KIbhe Turner. With Frontispiece in Color. Published by Hearst's International Library Li-brary Co., Nc w Y o r k. Although one is likely to imagine from the title he Is going to read about the overthrow of the Chuivh, this is far from being tfce nature of this work. The "last Christian" referred to is merely the last one in a certain small New England town to interpret the Bible to the letter and to keep the faith accordingly. Must of the others adopted liberal views, and some even departed from the fold altogether. alto-gether. Of the last named, Calvin Morgan, Mor-gan, the young hero-lover, was one, and we are led to Infer that his sweet heat I eventually followed him. Phe was the daughter of the "pastor of the While clnuch, the venerable Mr. Griswold. This stalwart old man remains true to the last, and this notwithstanding the fact that he dwindles to a lone minority. Jt is not made quite clear whether the author means to Imply that the. Christian Chris-tian church is approaching the obsolete stage, but this Is an impression tha t many will get. Many of the doubts and misgivings of those who think they have become too advanced to accept the old dngmas are here rehashed. To offset this effect, however, Mr. Turner devotes libera! lib-era! space to the reasons given bv t In: faithful for the hope which Is in 'them and why the scriptural revelations und commands shouid be obeyed. BOOK OF POETRY. The Falconer of God and Other Poems. F.y William Pose Pe.net. published bv Yale University press, New Haven, Conn. This beautiful scle. tinn of poems, many of which have already ;) ppea red in a number of tiie leading magazines, exemplify ex-emplify the author's true poetic instinct. "The Falconer of Cod," the first poem and Lhe one giving title to the book displays the excellent style maintained by the author throughout. The opening stanza reads: I flung my soul to the air like a falcon I sa.id, "Walt on, wait mi, while 1 rldo below! T shall star! a heron soon In the marsh beneath the moon A Strang-1 while heron rising with silver on Its tvin;,K. Rising and cr.vlng Wordh ,-s. wondrous things: The sc el of ) he stars, uf t lie world's heart strings The answer to their woe. Then stoup then optm him. and np and) hold him so!" j LITTLE-KKOWN MOUNTAINEERS. SUht to the Blind. By ,huv Furmon. With an introduction bv Ida Tarbelh Published by The Macmillan Company. New York. In this little volume Miss Furman explains ex-plains the wonderful work that Is being done, by settlement workers In the mountains moun-tains of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. The same scenes and environments of her former production. "Mothering on. Perilous, Peril-ous, ' are the basis for her present hook. In tills section there are thousands of families, many of them descendants of the 'best Kn.glish stock, who for their services In the war of tho Revolution I received land -grants. Here they have re-1 re-1 malned and reared families and for the j want of educational facilities these have ; developed only their primitive Instincts. 1 The educational campaign inaugurated : among these people was under the auspices aus-pices of the State Federation of Women's Clubs of Kentucky. On Troublesome creek, at the small village of Hlndman, the scat of Knott county, these women established a Settlement school, where more than a hundred children now ljve and where two hundred more attend day school. Nor is the work confined to educating edu-cating tho children. Tho homes are visited vis-ited by trained nurses, lectures on sanitation sani-tation given and suffering Is alleviated. The story itself deals with the ignorance ignor-ance and religious superstition of these people. Aunt Da I man 11 thy, as she was called, having lost her little girl and becoming be-coming blind about the same. time, was told by the preacher that the judgment of Cod had fallen on her for her rebelliousness. rebel-liousness. The nurse from the Settlement Settle-ment school persuaded her that the blindness blind-ness was caused by cataracts and her sight could be restored bv proper treatment. treat-ment. .She finally consented tn go to the city and undergo the treatment, and her sight was restored. As Miss Tarbell expresses it: "A more Illuminating Interpretation, of t he settie-nifc-tt idea I ban Miss Fur-man' s stories, 'Sight to the Blind' and 'Mothering the Perilous, does not exist." OF INTEREST TO PARENTS. Una Mary: The Inner Life of a Child. Py Vna Hunt. Published by Charles Seri brer's Sons, New York. Tills Is the story of the Inner life of a strangely Imaginative child. I'na Hunt believed that she possessed an inner self and this part of her personality she. named Una Mary. Her memory dates from the lime sho was not quite 3 years of age. and she relates many of her longings and imaginations through her childhood. Deprived of gir companions, she sought to fa thorn the mystery of her ex ist ence and other problems so strange to the mind of the child lacking the environments environ-ments that their animated iiHturs demand. de-mand. She t ells how the little prayer, "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," frightened fright-ened her. believing as she did that death came onlj- at night. At the age of 14 she experienced a change and had what she considered a revelation, but what was really the awakenfng of a normal mind. The experiences of Una Hunt are to a large extent common to all children who, lacking wholesome surroundings and companions, com-panions, tind outlet for their superfluous energy in morbid brooding. The book should prove of interest to parents no less than to the younger generation. j POETIO VARIETY. I A Caravel of Dreams: A Pook of Verse. I By I 11a Mtinni Talntcr. Published by i Sherman, French & Company, Boston. i The sweeping emotional appeal of these verses is indicated by the titles of the group"? into which the volume is divided-poems divided-poems of love, fancy, revery. nature, sorrow, sor-row, tragedy. and religion, In which "moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, und attraction of form" that are essential lo an enduring art. ! The Heeling, elusive delights of love and fancy have been captured and Imprisoned Impris-oned In words that hold them fast, yet never crush or mar the beauty of their wings. Kpvery's caudle lights old scenes and faces with the kindly glow that softens harsh outlines and leaves, only beuuty. Nature brings pictures of her own clear und fragrant. Sorrow and t ra gedy grim sisters a re presented with Intense sympathy for the bleeding he;ixt of tho world. The volume closes with religious re-ligious verses which include some charm-lug charm-lug Faster and Christmas poems. The artistic form of the verse throughout through-out is excellent, the lyric expression well embodying the singer's noble thought. FOR THE MARTIAL BOY. The Bo"s Book of Famous Regiments. Bv II. A. Ogden. With the Collaboration Collabora-tion of T-l. A. Hitchcock. Illustrated. Published by M-'Brlde, Nasi & Company. Com-pany. New York. Of particular interest In these warlike days should "The Roy's Book of Famous Fa-mous Regiments" prove. In it are related re-lated the history and exploits of the fa-oious fa-oious regiments nf the, nations, from Cromwell's "Ironsides" in ItlH, down through the years to the present time. Many of t he time-honored regiments of Kurope. are here described, and these will prove of unusual Interest because of their participation in I lie, present conflict. con-flict. The four Illustrations in color are masterpieces and comprise "The Scots ('revs and Gordon Highlanders at Waterloo," Water-loo," "Napoleon's 'Old Oiiard" at AYater-loo." AYater-loo." "The Pennsylvanians and Vlr-! Vlr-! ginians at Oetlysburg." and "The Prus-, Prus-, slan Grenadiers at ilohenfrledberg." Besides Be-sides these there are numerous lllus-tra lllus-tra lions in black and white. Tho book Is an excellent one of Its kind and no better selection could he made for the boy martially inclined. PLEASING CHRISTMAS STORY. Next Christmas. By P.yron F,. Veatrh. Author of "Men Who Dared."' "The Two Samurai." and other stories. Published Pub-lished by Browne & Howell Company, Chicago. This little volume rings with the true Christmas spirit. Tt concerns a man wno had left his New l-higland home early in life and had allowed twenty-five years to e'apse without returning. Fa eh Christmas Christ-mas ho had promise' himself that the next Christmas he would make the promised prom-ised visit. In the rnea ntirne he had re-alized re-alized his ambition of making a success in life and had become wealthy. ITpon determining to make the visit he experiences experi-ences such a .loy as he had not known 1 since childhood, nor Is he satisfied vvilh being happy himself. Upon his ai rival, at his old home he proceeds to make i those who have been less fort una to Mian himself In lite experience this same happiness. hap-piness. The climax is indepd a Joyful one, for he rnents the sweetheart of his boyhood, who through ail the years has hVerr wailing for him. A most delightful Christmas story. COLLECTION OF VERSE. The Grand Canyon and Other Poems. Bv 1 Henry Van Dyke. Published by Charles Seribncr's Sons, New York. This collection of Dr. Van Dyke's recent re-cent verse takes ha title from that hu-presshc hu-presshc description of the Grand canyon of Arizona at davhreak, which stands a umng the most bea u t tt'ul of 7r. V.i n i lyko's poems. In a dd i t ion to the poem giving; title to the volume, I here are t a em y - two m hers, all of which displu y lhe rare poetic genius of this author. THREE SHORT FLAYS. Pbivs. Third Series. The Fugitive- Tho Pigeon; The Mob. By Jorm 1 ;.i Isworl ! iv Published by Charles Seribncr's. Sons New York. The first of 1 hrse pla vs. I he t ra uie handling of which is 01 ui-ol. i, i-- .-vcr new the fate of the woman with no pro tector who is thnvn n on hr own resources, and who is ab-ohitely untrained un-trained in anv service oy which she can eain H livelihood. "The Pigeon" deals also vUh a prescnt-dav theme. "The. Mnli" disclose,, the bite of a statesman who. for the sake of Ids convictions, con-victions, nlienale.s his I'amilv, his political constiiuenls anil his peers. The plays each tell a slorv, chttirly and l"g,ea'ly, and are forcibly i mpr i-ssed upon t ne reader by t he supei ior st vlu of the author i PANAMA AND THE CANAL. Pa nama : The ('anal. The 'ounl rv and the People. Bv Arthur Hullard (Albert Fdward.s. Revised Hdillon with Addl-1 Addl-1 lopal Chapters. Illustrated. Published Pub-lished by The Macmillan Company, New Y'ork. This book was originally published in an ali ridged form- three veai s ago. and at that time gained for Its? If the distinction dis-tinction of being one of the l-e.si (.lift (.li-ft round descriptive volumes on the isthmus. isth-mus. Tt maintained remarkablv .the bar-anee bar-anee of interest, no one topic of importance import-ance being sacriilced to make room for unnecessarily long and tedious discussions discus-sions of some subject with which the author might have been espeeiallv concerned. con-cerned. As was the rase with the former volume, the present work Is well appor-Moned appor-Moned among (he matters relating directly direct-ly to the canal, its history its construction, construc-tion, tho people of the isthmus, their past, present and future, and among (he descriptions of the outlying lands. F.very-thing F.very-thing which appertains to a clear understanding under-standing of the locality is found in the volume. In his former work Mr. Bui lard saw fit to assume a nom do plume, (hat of Albert Fdwards, but t ho present one is under "the author's real name. The text has been thoroughly revised, and two new chapters added, bringing the progress of tho canal as nearly up to date as possible. The chapter headings arc as follows: "The Sea Route." "A Cu rgo of Black-Ivory," Black-Ivory," "The Canal Zone in 1309," "Colon a nd Pa na ma CI t y, " "Th e Geogra phy of the Isthmus' "The Panamanians, '"'The Darien." "The Thirst for Gold." "The Jungle," "The Coming of the White Man." "The First Colonists," "Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien." "The Southern Sea." "Pedrarias." "The Conquest Con-quest of Peru," "Las Casas." "Tho Days of the Cireat Trade." "Prlvateors and Pirates." "The Buccaneers." "The Presbyterian Pres-byterian Tmnnion," "Tho Decline of the Spa nish Kmplre," "The Wars of Independence Inde-pendence Miranda," "The Wars of Independence Inde-pendence Bolivar." "Early 1st hmla n Transit," "The pa nama Railroad," "Our Predecessors on the Job," "The n."! Revolutions Revo-lutions In f7 Years," "The Secession From Colombia," "Beeinnlng Work," "The Boss of the Job." "Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics," "Transplanted Americans." "The Big Jobs in 1911," "FxperlmentH In Collective Activity," "Finishing the Job," and "The Profit." The volume comprises more than RO" pa2es. exclusive of the Illustrations, more than forty in number. There is little in connection with the Panama canal and the Isthmus of Panama which Is not covered, cov-ered, and the work can well be considered consid-ered an authority. AFFINITIES OF HISTORY. Famous Affinities of History. Bv Lyndon Orr. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. , The side of the lives of famous men and women relating to romance and love is here told In interesting a nd elaborated detail by the author, who has marie an exhaustive study of this feature In the world's history. No part of the historical inteiest or Information relating to the various principals is left. out. and this serves to supplement and strengthen the already interesting tales of famous love affairs. Among the stories with which the ou-thor ou-thor deals arc "Antony and Cleopatra;" "Abelard and .1 leloise;" "The Story o( Aaron Burr." which holds additional in-lerost in-lerost for the American; "Napoleon and Marie Walcwska :" "Queen Klizabelh;" "Mary. Queen of Scots;" "Maurice of Saxony, and the "Famous Actress, Adrl-enne Adrl-enne Lccouvreur," "Rachel," and another famous actress who shared honors as a peer in her prof es.i ion in the nineteenth century with Sarah Bernhardt and Klea-nor Klea-nor Duse, "Charlotte Cord ay a :id Ada in Lux." and many oilierF. No attempt has been made by the author to make a se-qeuntlal se-qeuntlal story from his short tales, but. each of his writings in itself Is complete. In 'detail. All told, tho author has completed a look which lolls of twenty-one of history's most famous love affairs. The work is profusely HI us' rat ed with engravings. Though history records the progress and development of the world and the rise and fall of nal Ions and rulers, nevertheless, chronological history does not always relate re-late the Inner or human interest side which attended many of the bisgest hap-enings hap-enings In history, and for this reason Lyndon Orr's book is exceptionally tn-j tn-j teresUng. STOrvY OF PHOTODRAMA. The Photodrama. P.y H nry Albert Phil-hps, Phil-hps, Author of "The Plot of the Short. Story," "Art In Short-story Narration" a no umer Mones. .1 ne tiannope-Dodee tiannope-Dodee publishing Company, Larchmont, N. Y., Publishers. From his connection with the motion-picture motion-picture industry almost since its infancy and his knowledge, generally, of Ills subject, sub-ject, the author In this work lias completed com-pleted a work which should be of inestimable in-estimable value, not only to those who exist from writing photoplays, but also to those whose Interest centers alone on what the photopla y world has to offer them on the screen. From any viewpoint t he book is timely and Intensely interesting. inter-esting. An introduction is written by J. Stuart Black ton, associated with the Vltagrapb company, who explains the purpose of the book and tells of the possibilities which the latest form of drama has before it, Mr. Phillips goea Into his subject thoroughly and he leaves no part out which goes to make up a comprehensive treatise on the philosophy of the photo-drama photo-drama find the nature of the plot ami the dramatic construction and technique. Separat-e chapters deal with "Parts of the Photoplay and Their Purposes:" "Various Devices, Their l.'se and Misuse;" "Visual "Vis-ual iza t Ion;" "Characterization;" "Theme, Treatment and the Censor;" "Development "Develop-ment and Continuity;" "Sequence and Suspense," and others. Mr. Phillips closes with a complete description de-scription and the order of things tu writing writ-ing a motion-picture play or drama. The technical work is so handled In telling the story that tt is not only instructive, but interesting reading as well. SEARCH FOR TRUTH. The Rediscovered lrni verse; or. The Power of Right Thinking and Righteous Right-eous T aving. By Daniel Conrad Phillips. Phil-lips. Published by Sherman, French & Company. Boston. A book not written to fret the hearts of men with weary argument, its statements state-ments are dfrect, positive, and unequivocal. unequivo-cal. The author makes his meaning plain In no uncertain language, its pages are hold and fearless, because for these many years sixty or more the author, enamored of na lure's truth, as he has perceived it. has paid fa I lb Tut homage at her shrine, searching for the gems she h eager to bestow, and beseeching her for the secrets she is willing to dis- ! close to those who, in the light of reason, I seek to know her unfailing ways. With J the love of truth as his compass ami , guiilu, and helpfulness his purpose., he has searched in the wilJcrnest! 1 of J thought, among whispering trees and j sheltering rocks of truth, o er rugged' 1 crags and precipitous mountains of eu-or. 1 that he mi:-; hi bring the message of five- j 1 doni to the hosts wandering still fn the I bewilderment of thoughtless beliefs. ; Willi unfaltering courage he has pet ie - 1 j tra fed t he Jungles of creed a nil dogma, j flinging- dettanoe at the beasts of -i-n- ,i geance, anger, and fear of punishment . j His statements consequently are surpri.-.lng I and startling. Firmly root-id in his convictions, con-victions, he calinlv challenges a nuivr 1 his Joule who can. I !e has searched j 1 every nook and cranny of impulse or pas- i slon." and Muds thai humanilv is earnest. f devoid and aspiring, not a ra f sinners 1 grovelling in depravity. -The volume, boldlv attacks and darfnglv cha lie n-j es I ; the preaiing trend of religions belief' as I f an ..flense o real Christ in nil y. , ! This volume Is the product of km; :ndl cerious vears o" pondering upon In",, audi; its problems. Throughout this perioj lf 1 ' inure than ihree. score ytiirs roplu.lt.'j' memoranda, were made of thoughts as they came responsi ve to the author's earnest search for truth. The present volume is reaJly a. reprint or copy of the journal thus made. This booU as such was never planned or contemplated: it was the inevitable result of experience and conditions. VIRILE VEFvSE. The Man Sings. Bv R.oscoo Gilmore Ptott. Published by Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincmna Li. This new book of verse contains poems that are virile, often artistic and always human. Now and then a tone of darlns shows the author's desire to reflect a man's genuine nature. Air. Slott has attempted at-tempted no difficult forma of meter. Rather he has sought to produce lyrics that will appeal by virtue of their certain cer-tain sincerity. "The. Man Sinks'" boldly, at times very tenderly, and agaln with the full soul of some awakened saint. The themes vary with pleasing proportion. The verse is reprinted from eight magazines, maga-zines, to which collection Mr. Slott has added his i a.-w tat and perhaps strongest strong-est work. BOOK OF POEMS. The Rainbow Chaser and Other Poems. By Kenneth Rand. Published by Sherman, Sher-man, French Co.. Boston. The epitome of these verses might, perhaps, per-haps, be characterized as youth and cleanness and Keenness of vision and expression. ex-pression. The almospheie has always t he freshness of a rain-washed sunrise. Joy of life Is full-bosomed, deep-breathing, lusty a nd earth and air and ocean arc Inherent in it. There is no neurotic, hulf-knowiedged pleasure, nor yet feverish fever-ish ecsirtcy, hut a full-throated song of the passion of llvln- a whole life honestly honest-ly out in the open neither shunning; sorrow sor-row m.ir hugging it close, but reckoning il in. as every man must. It is not a picture of life it is life, from uhoso wonder the poet has "wrung- the skill to trace In flaming- frlyphs a dream of majesty To strike a stone to rapture, or to grace A sorrow with a robe of melody." LITEKABY NOTES. l.mojuestiomibly onn of the notable, biographies bi-ographies of the reason is '"The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Eeresford." In two volumes, in which this popular Knglish admiral has told spiritedly and entertainingly the story of his adventurous adventur-ous earner. Koth the American publishers. publish-ers. Utile Urowp. & Co., Boston, and the English publishers. Meihurn & Co., announce an-nounce second editions of these memoirs. Credit is an estimate of your capacity to worry about pa.ying- your bills which is held about you by a lot of total stampers. Credit is also a belief held of your ability to pay for something long after you have ceased to derive any benefit bene-fit from IL Credit is likewise u paupe of your willingness to deceive yourself into the belief that you can afford" to buy j something because you cannot pay cash for it. If everybody paid cash, there would -be no bond issues, no huge clerical forces, no national debts, no armies or military systems, no schools such as exist ex-ist today, no war. no degenerate fashions fash-ions nothing ;but pla in, everyday llvi ug. Credit enables everybody to "live a ncti-tious ncti-tious existence. Nothing exceudts like credit. Life A certain preacher, In one of the southern south-ern states, was preaching away one Hun- da y night when a fire alarm broke the attentive stillness of the sanctuary. 'Sif still:" he cried to his disturbed congregation. "If there is a lire, the Lord will take care of His own. and not let anything happen that shouldn't." Just then two child ren, who had stepped outside, shrieked : "Oh. it's the parsonage! It's the parsonage par-sonage !" Without a word of fa rowll Liiat preacher made a wild bound from the pulpit and struck out for his burning residence. "They is t imes, it seems. " said a lean member of the congregation. "wiir-n th' liOrd needs he'p." Na tlonal .Monthly. Love has no doubts. To Itself love is the very substance of reality. The phenomena phe-nomena of sight, sound. Touch, and their fellows, are but tho conditions under which life has made a foothold for itsr-if in this boisterous i.-nrld; i:,e .-en.-t-.s know nolhiniT beyond their 0-rr they miec not e.ng to -r- .. eiin ...1- purpose 01 1U ',,, .i" larnr ami eiioi't of vi . . -ivrL;i ail Its siil.-iv-al ,c.,,, . . et;K-r";il immensity i-..., . 01 pro lucin. iove. Of w:-4 .. is Ir. y.n. in,. r ins-nsihU k.c. myriad reirs or ro-sipi". e - lit i of conscious life iIIumhiM by the labor, or n in on?cious i r---out an m aat.-.- .ot time. Cr..u, out a mlnisior to ln.-p. to i,. to be. 1 i(.,-'-mn'-r Atlantic |