| Show l I t 1 0 It i 1 1 I j I j jI I I J i 1 i I j i u c o i J PW i J JJ FROM SUN J TO SUN llo years J roll 11 c crio rio ns us this Iho world wIll crows hh Ami nt t CI U I I 1 It j t n of un earlier Mother l i Yuul Childs Ch festival I Across cro tho mile I ll e of driven rl l Ii l vanished days IlUs r cull ci lI lIe e I II I whom e to know 1110 7 I Wm of 1111 felo the Iho lIeL 01 Ihu o when watched HO 10 tenderly ten r I It t Ton were a baby bill at Ill her hll breast t t chilli lier hel knee 4 Wera when nt the of day i V 11 heard the tho story L Y Imply told Which l th nl lAh the whole broad blond earth 1101 Can for us u old Ami io so it that thIll when tho Falls s on our y n culm 01 i Ihl sho Iho UH for fOl our Ihl i I Will no moro cheat L ns us or 01 deceive V t But that ns liS mo moro fair fah I fl last III t 1 ft Is 0 will us 11 Micro To lo tho Iho festival of o Christ I U II II 11 in December f L NOTES OIES I II I Of the tho difficulty with which celebrities escape the lure of the tho Womans oman club lecture Ic turo tho Lh Kentucky poet p et o 01 be being h hIng ing brought out in III n limited edition do de It xe by b mall Maynard lay nard Co tells a good g d story at the tho expense of Percy Mackaye r the playwright The chairman b a Chicago womans club dul about ut a year yeni ago wrote vIota t MI Mackaye asking him to lecture before b foro proposal was Its startling t to the dramatist who consult consulted cor sult ed cd a friend ns is to graceful gr modes moll PH of declination Tho most businesslike bu wa Enid this who t be an r Is to Jilt Oll pre high that be to nc I Cit a lecture lII I Mackaye e wrote a proposition to that j effect only to t receive Ic a telegram Como Come Lt Ho went delivered d as best be t ti i Sli co td t and thereupon Had to entertain a proposition for fOI three 1 As Mr observes It is ISI I to got ahead of the good women ii ho art and literature pos po sible in this hl country s 11 Hour iff I not after all If we ore to believe bellove AugusLUS whose novel from his hi play the th Harpers Huper have just published It Is 2 J Jo o in this tho morning In both play and e that the clock clo lt strikes ft la i also in the lit Ill little tle stanza from which rises t J I UP pf the stately ole old Judge as ho first fint boyish boYI h sweetheart I And over vor since then theil when whon the tho clock fl two to She walks unbidden from fr m room to tolf lf room And the all air is tilled filled that she passes through With sad nd perfume The he delicate te odor o of mignonette ghost of ot a bouquet Iff all that tells of her story yet Could she think of a sweeter way 1 an all editor may ma sometimes bo moved to enthusiasm as witness os the following f letter Jetter WhIch the publishers of Zona Z na Gales Friendship Village have havo just received from om the th editor of a pro pvn 1 weekly we kl journal I Have just reading olio of your recent Jl by Yon Galo and cannot retrain refrain from tolling Sou you how charmed channe and delighted I J have ha VI been j O 1 with It In Ih its humor Its Itil t tess ess Its I tender pathos its deep look into tho Inner things of life liCe Us de depleting I of the tho good home Ie its utter J havo hayo not n t rend read anything that surpassed It il ih many years I have havo already given n i ly order for several sevell 1 copies caples to bu u eld about Christmas time but l ut I J am I will liae l ii e to goback go for fOI more I hope tho book will iULO very vloe circulation Ui KO so much of f tho fiction of today tollay it leaves a goo tat in ones If Ir women really are as thEy are said sahl to be the tho greatest readers of stories that describe Illicit love loe they ought to tobo toI bo I diverted by the Iho case for 01 Gilbert Neal a Harper novel of f tho triangle lrI C order member of l their sex presents prese with a kind of fierce h tc t 11 cannot this Ihl a f Independent Ir deny that I o of or borl lle Tho 1 characters in It areas reul as ath the moral l as homely l OS t u usually Is when Jt has h been I In the of ti 11 few decent but unfashionable folk Yet Yot it Is Jr th the 11 most interesting t feature l lr tl s bo boI I cau c the N ro ISO Improper per por If the author had clothed thorn Ihorn with lih ml d by b the th most v i IJ writers rt lie wo have to dia cuss d of the th sin in in inthe the story sto fi t I tall t with a of all If i had t and teJ olt fh G l t wearing apparel I There Is not a It man manIn manIn In tho country who can an show with such diabolical accuracy how h w animal ecstasy may be mistaken for fot spiritual l not one who Vho can ean so completely divest both worldly and c Iem of Its It fashion Wo Vo do dl nut not recommend mend the tho hook book but it is a I good QUO a IL man cannot detect tho dif difference ference between a it and his own OW 1 procreating Instinct lie 1103 Is IH in Ill dan danger ger gm of hell lire and ought to know It even if he has to tl be told Booth who will doubt loss always alwa H be best known as the au alt author thor thol of and ant The Tho Conquest of o arid luid Harry I Wilson I ori who won fame with Tha Spenders Spender appeared as collaborators n na na a story I tOI which tho Harpers are arc publish publishing ing this week It Is called The rhe Man ManFrom 1 n From Home find and is the th hook book of tho play by these authors now running in New York Augustus Thomas author of Tho rho Witching Hour author of the play und and novel both the latter r of which the thu Harpers have just published although a n New lew at present Plesent halls from Missouri The University of Missouri has notified Mr lIll Thomas that at tho next commencement ment there thele will be con conferred upon him the tho degree of ILU tho degree which It Il recently gave gae to Mark Twain Tho rho president of tho uni university in presenting him 1 for the tho hon br 01 referred to Mr Thomas s as the most distinguished dl living son on that Missouri has produced pro with the tho exception of Samuel L Clemens fact about Joaquin Millar 1 In Iii his neat noat method of or sel Ho found fot lIl that B best appreciated ted him when ho clothed himself In III a sort of Wild West and so 10 half tho time lie he affected stylo st lo of or attire His wild Songs of the Sierras surprised u from fIX British readers that sort of admiration the ar aristocracy of that country afterward ex expressed expressed pressed for Buffalo Bill and his cow cowboys boys bos Then rheu too lot let tho literati say sn what it pleases leases l there thoro Is a charm in The ArizonIan The Talo Iulo of the Tall all Alcalde that Is not to tobo tobo bo measured with the poetic and tho English public wore not slow to find that charm Soon all ull literary London was talking of tho new west western ern poet What wings to verso CISO was Its unstudied un stu II quality Its wild abandon and a certain breadth and swing which even the tho most critical will not deny him In Ip those days he came C nearer to realizing for us Brownings careless rapture re than this country has hus over eVer produced Ilia ideas were ee now new to England d and I nd his point poh t of view so fresh and refreshing that those same samo s whom Ctrl lo profess l cd to find so heavily dull and lacking lackin in literary appreciation did not fall to find a sort of delight In Millers strange ge songs Then too there thel was a lilt In his big best oost lines l les a n kind of nn that I find In the songs of no other American singer SILVO Lanier Of course Lanier would have put into Inte moro more scholarly l language such lines as fiS the tho prelude pl to Ip Kit Carsons Ride Hide but ho he would hardly have given gen us liS more sweep and swing Room room to turn round In III to breathe fOld find be free floe freeTo To 10 grow to be bl giant to sail as at sea soa With the speed of or the wind on a steed with willi his mane To tho wind Wlm without pathway or route or a rein My 1 plains of America Seas of wild lands From a I land in the seas in a raiment of foam That t has haB reached to a stranger the welcome wele me of home to yon ou loan lorn to you ou lift you ou my m hands From Fro in The rhe Wild by Bailey HulJe Millard in tho December er Book roan mu BOOKS I The Wolf Hunters ers by b James Oliver Curwood author of nf Tha Courage of Captain Plum Illustrated by b C M The Tho company Ih II a for boys hOYs hut but it is IR so 1 0 pleasing to tn tho adult read rud ruder reader er that the h does not realize the fact fuet not been mentioned that It Itis is a 11 juvenile until hi has nearly fin lin l hl the Ie tory story Ht is h i only the manner iii lu which slight hint of romance ro 1 n e is suspicion l n and finally awakens him f 10 been h n thorough thoroughly ly I lna In 11 story for and nd Izes will be b fully full as ns interesting und and absorbing lIb bh g to t the th re l is fOr foi whom It rito f i iTh Th r tol for this Thoi unusual anil unil ono on is Ii plunged l t Ii Let d n 1 clu will not lu 1 pm l ha ir them nil all plot Is well too l I l t and th marches ll nd J se i the It 1 1 I truo tn Q that i Iri i the tho con construction corr ti n oRt llo tale th li the I IIi Ii t r f iIi ft l ry I f I t F W ful pl ure stretches che 94 lc i tl ri of the ot the tM frozen j I N Its i 1 z ef I yr t po drama r t I tho tJ Q old oll In k v dian may bo pronounced a It very un unusual usual piece of fiction for boy bew readers the th principal character in tho is the tho won Hon of a IL Scotch cotch factor and an Indian princess who live Ile at House a IL post deep in the tho wilderness of Lake Nipigon His adventures are ale frequently Ing always alway absorbingly Interesting never unwholesome and with their wonderful setting described so 0 vividly that tho reader will never forget It make up lip an unusually tine fine story TIm The story Is I well not lint lintton too ton long und and the is sustain sustained ed to the tho very end There Then is even a hint of a Lt sequel and every ovelY boy hoy render and most would like to know how was wn punished and if Rod Hod over 0 1 found his gold sol mine and married A Maid in by h Adah Louise Sutton Button pictured by hy A Russell Hussell Whenever Adah Louise Loule Sullo 11 sends out a new book thousands of or youth youthful ful hearts yearn earn fol just a t peep at the treasures between Its ItH two covers coers atul this year their highest t hopes will bo be fulfilled tho heroine is the Little Maid who delights In furnishing a most ray ravishing dolls house Ono One day when tho work is IH nearly finished even the gar gul gulg g equipped with a cradle ning and ami drying dr herbs Sally views the kitchen her delight In the is a most delectable looking piece pi ee or oak mid arid piece ot of it goes into Sallys SaU H mouth She Shu shrinks and way down d wn to doll size and becomes a lL member of the tho doll household The rho Illustrations are re from tho ho 1 pen nen of A the Well known illus illustrator hatol who full fulI pages s done in colors and scores of black and white drawings to book Bound B Iii Ih boards cover quart 1 belonging to and uniform with the Billy Whiskers Tho rhe Publishing P com company company pany Akron AIron Ohio o of Treasure Town ami her Snowman by b Frederick Chapin ings by Merle Merlo Johnson JohnsonA A most captivating story given a a beautiful dress that describes the pre enl ent volume herself halls hails from Fiorina Fiorino and the tho first glimpse we havo of hor horis is aa us she sho stops steps Into a lL fairy fahy craft called tho Magic Globe GlobO of which a lL queer little fellow named Pedro Is pilot To 10 Together gether g thor they the fashion a snowman now man and lie ho comes to life lite to brighten 11 the tho tale with his Inexhaustible humor l Their I destination Is tha tho Laud Land Landof of Good Deeds Deda and Riches Riche but en route they thoy are m o unfortunate in being captured by tho After many man adventures they thoy escape es apo by a and make maleo a triumphant entry Into Treasure re Town Is welcomed royally by bythe bytho the tho and an when whon she starts on the return Journey bears Wealth and aut Good Goo Health as gifts to lo her father Merle Marla Johnsons Illustrations deserve special and particular mention He has given the th book 43 pages ages in colors and more than I BO black and white draw Ings which tell the tho IW picture as graphically as it is told iii hi words Large quarto 17 pages page illustrations In colors cloth The Publishing company compan Akron Ohio By the tho by Samuel M r author authol of Tho lIHI Gentle Reader The Pardoners Wallet Vallet etc Is s a l Christmas book of o most unusual quality and attractiveness Dr Croth Crothers ers whoso position as tho foremost of American essayist essa Is now undisputed It t at his h best be t In those these charm bier whims whimsIcal cal Ical Inspiring papers Ho writes of Q Christmas and tho literature of of Christmas and aid the democratic tic spirit and of other allied amelI topics with Hh a el delicate and im Imaginative charm chann that will give gle plea tnt int and memorable hours hour to many readers rea dols Like Dickens In his Christ mas mw Carol darol Dr DI Crothers has hus imbued this little hook bonk with a IL spirit of oC happi happiness happIness ness and these essays essny h vl been to tube be among the tho best he haw Imil ever ovel written The volume is IH furnished with illus nH and chapter headings by hy Francis 13 Comstock and Is lund bound In red with design de ISn In blind 1 stamping and gold Mifflin Co i 1 Park St SI Boston 83 S Fifth Avo Now York |
