| Show v j 4 1 A d v vr vI r I I r rT T 4 t u LIFE IS WHAT T WG WE MAKE IT Lots Lets oftener talk ot at noble deeds And rarer ot of the Lad bad ones OIN And sing about our happy dAYS And Ami not about the sad ad ones We were not made to fret tret and elgh And when whon grief sleeps sleep to wake U It Bright happiness Is standing by This life Is s what WI we make maleo it ft Lets find tho sunny Bunny side ot of menOr men 0 Or be believers In It ItA ItA A light there thore Is In every soul That takes the pains to win It ItOh It ItOh Oh theros a slumbering good In nil all nilAnd allAnd And wo we perch perchance may wake wAka Iti It Our hands contain the magic wand This life lito Is what we make It Then heros herell to those whose lovIng hearts shed hed light and joy about them Thanks be to thom them for tor countless gems goms We neer had hod known without them Oh this should be a happy world To all who may lOllY partake It the faults our own It It Is not This life IlC Is what we make It It N Mary E Wilkins says sas that two to trib tributes tributes utes have much It not most pleased her during her career or ot of successful ful au authorship One was a generous letter ot of congratulation which she received from trum another author after win nine a In a contest In the tiles ot of the latter and ono one In which she had been a competitor The other tribute le Is an echo ot of the Span SpanIsh I Ish h war A distinguished prisoner con confined fined d In Morro ens castle tie found In nn an old illustration from Jerome with which he had decorated his cell his chief con consolation consolation during his confinement Mr Robert W Chamberss recent novel The Conspirators which many of oC the critics have havo round found fault tault with on account ot of the authors daring Intro Introduction ot of two no lose less personages than the and Queen Is despite criticism meeting a nola bit ble success AlthoUgh published scarcely five aKa ago It hall bus already alread gone through five editions and It seems probable that It will prove the most popular ot of the authors man many successful books Miss the author ot of ned led has hili throughout her literary carefully avoided all newspaper publicity and only In an ewer Iler to Inquiry has she consented to Jf reply ly to the charges ot of a number ot of English that In her portrayal ot of the Rev Rov Mr Ir she has made madean an unjustifiable libellous attack on the high church clergy Writing to Mr J hJ Hodder ll horns Mss says say 1 have attempted after atter years rears ot of patient h not to describe R a type tYlle not tOo b wound n a party In the church among whom I count some mine ot of m my best friends hut but to create a character as Individual a as I hope Pratt Is Individual yet no captain In the guards so BO tar far as asI asI I am aWAre thinks that I Am attack attacking ing the arm army or even their department rf or It when whon I describe Captain Pratt hit h is III a worse man than Mr Grelle The whole hole point ot of Mr char appears to rue me w to b be missed miNed It he J 1 1 regarded as an ot of It a class clas tr as 1111 anything except what hl he Is name nameh namely ly h a I man with a closed mind rn the whole Miss Is II well taken and It If the rf of Ih the American press may be taken n as evidence the character ot of the Rev Iter Mr r Ity has been better unde lood and mule molt keenly appreciated In this country than on the other uther after atter nil all allis is III not unnatural F A Stokes Is busy just now with making ready JO John n Oliver Hobbes Mrs sequel to A School for tor saints which Is to be called Robertot Robert ot of Orange Throe Three years ago Mrs brought her School for tor Saints tn o 1 a close with the words The story I et elf Iran os f life lICe of oC his litera litem literary ry und rend political life lICe In ot of his with Disraeli and ot of hl his hiscar CH car rr er In the will be told In a subsequent volume and the present is 18 the fulfilment of at that promise W D has the following to say ot of Jane Austen It remained for the greatest ot of th the gifted d women who beyond any or all other novelists have fixed the tf ter and b behavior or of fic n to assemble In her delightful tel tal tnt eat all that was wal beet In that ot of her ller raters Jane Austen Au ten was Indeed so 80 fine fin an artist arUtt that we arc aro stilt only b beginning to how fine she was tv to perceive after atter n a hundred years that In the form torm ot of the fact In the expression ot of personality In the con dut ot of tile the narrative and the or of Inc lent to character she Bhe Is still to In time til branch or of Anglo axon fiction In American fiction Action Ua Hawthorne Is to be named with Ith her for tor perfection ot of form torm the th bt beet t novels nOels are arc built upon mr mere symmetrical lines than the bett novels novel and have hae Shaped lJ themselves upon Ivan the Ideal which rh She instinctively and instantly realized fit of course It wan not merely In exter externals externals nals that Jane Austen so o prompt her mac The wonder of my any beautiful thing Is that It Is beau In so map many ways 8 and her fiction III RS for Its humor It ims delicate Ura Its Its rood sense Ita Its kindness its truth to nature all as tar for Its form torm There Is nothing hurried or I huddled 1 it tt t or oh ob cure seure nol no HIt 1 I or inordinate of It It t U lions the 1 lea be because cause caule It U 10 ah she Wrote from rami familiar liar the fiction that had ante j trot her herThe Time The t l n q 1 artl Ard among w P Ig t Illustrated by bo bothe bythe the tact fact I that t the Wellesley College e book tor placed laced an order with the for tor copies of at f fobert 11 H Oreene Greenes ad admirable mirable I t entitled Healthy Exercise women or men no better bet better ter alt this subject has hal been beell published 7 t fie I purpose la he lato heto to help t till t der to 0 keep In a really healthy and Abd hue his system stem is II so 10 thoroughly tI cUcal In Its simplicity that It ly to see He that It Is Ie meeting I I general a adoption Harper I ate are following UP their sedition ot of Motleys works 1 n library edition and an edition d dc iota lJ ot entire works ot of Oliver G Ot Rj I Including Forster life This d di luxl will be known as the ld and will be beIn beIn In twelve I met each to have ten phot and n Illuminated title page on lab Tupan Japan paper The text Is r lh the Cunningham edition The Int U is written by Austin 1 I rationalize tb the death of our Lord ThIs lust hult Illustrative or of aver a very Important element In Prof Professor eor treatment nt namely the tracing ot of the gradual rise of at theology through the New Testament literature In his hili treatment Professor Gould traverses I some me traditional b beliefs In a way that thatIs Is likely Ukly to arouse some The Company have In press a n new work by Professor Nash author ot of The O or of the Suc Conscience upon the motor history or of t tI higher of the New Testa Testament I ment This n new v volume lume or of Professor I I Is one on ot of the New Testament Handbook Series and promises to bt be beof ot of exceptional Interest Professor Nash Nuh NuhI I has hal given something more Inore than a mere mett statement of at the various vartoul school ot of criticism and has hal produced what is II In fat fact a sort eort of or of the critical movement from Crom the earliest times Practically It Is III the flat book to bl be written on the general feDeral subject In English h t 1 The recent failures In Ute the publishing world orl lead the New York Jo Evening Post I tu to draw the following moral I however r great the success of single le ventures th the stability ot of a hi h use Ulle depends pend not upon unexpected sin single JIll gle s lri IN eases but upon the general 1 and good jul shown Ahun in III till Ilse I x of It Its whole list and upon 1 I the hi native and ul I of all good books boob un on It For there I lt is such R a thing as a ubI dc It of a blok bi ok In this art In III Indeed I deed lies If one or of the secrets of success the art of t a gad book alive In Inthe inthe the public mind as II Ion long as the tho public mind Is II receptive Unexpected ted and un In unusual usual successes uce e probably do even een more to demoralise a publisher that than the they elo do doto to tn demoralize an author authur or the public I In fact falt the If It suffer at nit alt l suffers least In tile the of values that thaI ouch successes bring Hardly one cue or of the books that have bae had phenomenal sales In recent ent yean has b been n a bad book some ome are Inane and most are ot of little permanent literal literary value aluf but they the have not degraded even If they have not elevated the public taste The They have hav had however a very I tendency to introduce Into pub methods and Into the ales ot of Writers the extravagant expectation I that hat all games of oC hanoe encourage l front frol ever every point paint of at view a as the failure ot of two such BUell houses t h there is II no warrant for or the concision lon that It Indicates a 11 falling a away Wit In the I public appreciation ot of lit literature or that enterpriser when wl wise wisely e eh ly h and conservatively managed are more hazardous than the formerly were wert They a are no doubt somewhat Ie less profitable All as most mOlt torten or of bust bUll nees nt are for tor the percentage percenta of at profit lap shrAnk Out U market for books Is Ie IAl larger r than it ever wa wad The share hare or of the profits that now goes to authors Is larder and the share h re that goes to the publishers is 18 smaller than used uNd to b be the cue case but It h his a hardly yet et come to pus PUI that thU the downfall of oC publishers can call be laid at the door ot of authors greed Among the many parts part says the ne new London paper the Dally I which h hoe s played during till his eventful career It la is not generally known that once It at least he successfully figured as I II a preacher It happened On board the em empress press liner on which he to be crossing the Pacific a a quartermaster died leaving a widow ant and JulIe harge family The following thre appeared on the notice board halt half the entertainment program this brief In Intimation 9 p by a Lay Layman Layman man The SAloon was wa crow crowded d with curious folk at the time and Mr I from Crom the front ot of an Im Improvised platform proceeded to preach II a begging sermon ot of some fifteen min minI I length The appeal was addressed AAA W VV lURING TOLSTOI WESTWARD 1 S b bor T or orY orI orb I b Y t tr r ra raI I rs r I f 1 T l preSident ot et the t University or of Chicago hopes soon t to have Grout lt jr the tho eminent Russian author humanitarian anI reformer lift III fUr Als guest President Harper has just returned from a visit Iset to the lI hit where he spent a time nl lie Is III the tho 1 most o tJ nent In his country ot of the cult cultA A A A A A A A AA A A A A A A I Dobson the h are by how howand and ard j and A J 1 J t hs have 1 also ulso under way a now new tC of Lorna Doone Doane illus illustrations nod Jid n a photogravure portrait ot of the tha The l Q subscription de dea If the way since of MN November Francis FrancisA a t last h In charge ot Mr Francis FrancisA A Win t i in Boston Doston through his fora b o With Houghton Boughton j jIn AO S In his The Theology ot of the which I is shortly to tobe tobe be l ed l by the Mc MacMillan lIlJan Company Com Compan pan pany In ow Handbook Series Serie Ut IC P Gould has the M I ID which will bt be of at Interest to I It nut not to the gen general erat eral 11 public Why Is II faith the ot of rI The answer 1 this ts III o to any one olle who l is with the Pestles thought M least le Jt the moat mast obvious answer I is t justifies because It conn tl tf he man n With Christ Our Ourthe Lord 19 elt the ot wha brings Rud this the neeP the ne J Aud Is hat the ou Add the t of nt the lit life together f id toots bring th the plant and the soil Any Anything thinS in hi either God or tl t which Is restoring sad and object ok ith sad mR o oli the e object o In the ot but QI as t ml thing just as It Is Christ It the bal l object et or of faith Ill le lime death th of Christ rather then than the other or of Ills 1111 ute life and so 80 fire e ha haft Ache tINI ha first attempt to to his hearers sense ot of justice rather than to their charitable Impulses IL a foreshadowing ot of the later homily whose hOlle retrain refrain Is 18 Pass the hat tut for your credits sake lAke The result wu was gratify gratifying ing From a congregation numbering fewer than the sum Bum ot of 70 odd was ral eda practical proof ot of eloquence that many professional pulpit orators might sIgh for In vain aln t BOOKS VIsit to th the Hawaiian wallan Islands by Mary II 11 Krout Is another nw new and publication recently Issued by bythe bythe the Book BooI company Since the Hawaiian J Islands hue have now become a part ot of the United States Stata It Is Important that the children or of our schools should learn something ot of the ot of these the Islands anti and ot of the people who Inhabit them The history ot of these elands though re restricted as asto s sto to the scene ot of action hiss been as lag and dramatic a as our own This book OOk de describes the Imaginary Journey ot of a little girl who starts with her parents from Chicago and after atter traveling g to San Francisco At wt last reaches Iter Hertt e eshe she remains main for tor bra months month and when the time lime com comes for tor her to leave Ive she ho ho has acquired a knowledge knode of these thee tropical islands which la I and In in and can ean forgotten A vivid Ild picture Is II given of the objects t she sees MH of the peculiar man mann n nees and customs of the people and ot of the and luxuriant Ju flowers and olla e Everything le 18 noted a as It acv ac and as It would be seen by one going for tor the time to 10 this unusual and picturesque country There Ther is III also included fn 10 the book a list lilt ot of names flame and terms with their u Uon W Ve have In the lath by Agnes and nil authors ot of The Pride ut of a one of these light books onee begun beun It Is Im Impossible possible no to read through but which It I Is IJO o to write about partly uN the they do not tully fully determine fn their rr readers the kind ot of writing their authors to 10 represent or orto II to pin Pitt It differently are not Dot quite their own excuse rr fir bpi I and partly partir because we remember tb them long enough nough to term an any definite and decided about them To sent Orl criticise trifles which merely amuse U us would woul be its 1111 absurd as al to 10 In measure au the merits merit ot of by dramatic laws Bath Comedy is III not lit so much tL a comedy as AI its title would lead one to lo u a laugh lauh at th the very Idt Idea a of at comedy b It itself C a fart Car k kal rl mockery ot of comedy In the sense ene that Sheridan I h 1 a farll mockery t trag tragedy ed edy The writ writers of If this hll have 0 th their lr Imaginary stage with some half n dozen hlen old stock n young youn wile who fancies that her husband har ht ceased to love loe her a de llIn IQ she ht is III encouraged d b by bythe the de et I of lC hll female friends Rit an Widow wh assures lit her l that the I to h r Is to lm 1 J lIu f hl th hu ball who into Jt jealousy two or friends I ham h he au In turn t them hm In to III his hie Q Own rth for tor Sufi which do not occur all an lib ab R a rescue and so PO on and cron movement light chatter but bet that hears the Ihl semblance urt till the aNion action and actors playing ln each h other the Ibl whole hIng an anI I game ame of If If 1 vt e which hleb deceives nobody and even creators of these people who lI flung ud save stuck Ituk their tongues In their rind winked at each other 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