-* "T_

— figures, he concentrates
***»Sf*Ls relations with these very personages,
NEW-YORK
himself may be a good
DAILf TRTBI XE, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1910.
"
After ho had shot his that this interesting book is not provided with
cook.'
ibex, with its 44-inch hoad, he tells us: an index. c. I. B.
and genuine comedy. The tale may be a littla
overkng at first in proportion to the number of
7

**
SP* *% m such wise that
dOC
*
gorMeet
the
are ir. truth laid bare. be a
he would
nerves
hard-
my
Kadera came to my tent and cheerfully informed
me that he had promised Buddha, in the event of
complete success, a sacrifice of two fat sheep. FICTION
its adventures, but Mr. Snaith manages to
keep us as much interested in his characters in
\u25a0tftf* c ma y repeat, After a few moments of embarrassing silence fol- between as he is himself. A delightful book,
Wjts&er who grudged Mr. Sichel his Ht-
lowing my assent, I was further informed, still
1

cheerfully, though perhaps a trifle less confidently,

New Stories by Mrs. Humphry
whose manner pleases as much as its content.
* -^.satisfaction. Sterne,
jiearW* *T He has not made that the promise had been made in my behalf. I
In his new study of modern Poland Rienkic-
0E »* 11
18
* -ith a new he has not
professor Cross has dons
had wondered who was to pay for them! So the
sacrificial fire was built, the sheep killed, and far Ward and Others. wicz does not concern himself so exclusively
i**** rf than into the night the shikaris and coolies feasted in with the Polish— the Slav—soul as he did in
**2?
g 1'the \u25a0»\u25a0*• thefamous
world?
art of one of the most
writers. But quite
the moonlight, squatting in a circle about my tent.
Reference has already been made to the LVPY MKRTON. OOLjOBTOST. P.y Mr". Humphry "Without Dogma." The title of the book,
Ward. Front ispi«-ee by Alfred Sterner, l'imo, "Whirlpools," has a double meaning. While it
*"'** **. he interests us
3 frontispiece.
I*** American rival There axe several other good pp. 3CI. Doubleday. Page .& Co.
m** us. Wsrenewing our delight in a theme illustrations in this readable narrative of "Sport
refers, on the one hand, to the Polish tempera-

.
rOBTDNK Ev J. C. Snaith. 12mo, pp. 353. ment, which plays a large part in the story, of
charm. The last word on and Travel in the Far East." Moflat, Yard & Co.
course, itroints with even greater force to mod-

****!n9tver
4. ioe be ••*\u25a0\u25a0• New documents V.IiIRU'OOLS: A Novel of Modern Poland. By
th« ern economic and social conditions in Poland, to
«•::;
°
fL
ft*** XCT crowing t'P- At this writing
XElf FRENCH BOOKS
H<--:ir>k Si^nkiewicz. Translated
I'olish by Max A. Drezma.l.
from
12mo. pp. 330. agrarian unrest- that sets the peasant against
** « to hand, in the current
number of Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
the noble and to socialistic propaganda, which,
'•
SaUrtitl'v."Eliza." embodying some high-
a paper by Mr. Lewis Mel- Mrs. Ward has discovered Canada, and writes attempting to carry out its theories regardless
&^LZue'*
leCa rfi^c letters from that lady hitherto Charles X and the
Revolution of of it and its commonwealth builders with truly
of consequences, but too often succeeds only in
tf *tf*r7 A« m have said, there will al- feminine enthusiasm. Strangely enougn, she rousing the
!
July. activities of Russian police and Cos-
t rablia^^^
does not see a continuation there of the stu- sack. The
essay* on Sterne, other biogra- adventures of the characters are set
*iyt Paris, June 4. pendous virilityof nineteenth century England, in a larger plot of conspiracy and riot in the
Tor there « il!always be
Shandeans.
The collection of "Memoires and Souvenirs" a younger growth of a wider, more liberal country districts and in Warsaw.
made by M. Frantz Funek-Brentano, bearing Anglo-Saxondom, but a contrast, not at aJI constantly growing influence in European life,
A carious,
upon the period of the Bourbon Restoration and favorable to the men of the mother country.
GOOD BUNTiNG published by A. Fayard, Is enriched by "La Mrs. Ward has never grasped the wider historic
of which Sienkiewicz makes use here is the re-
turned emigrant of the lower clasf, who in-
Revolution do Juillet." written by M. Raymond meaning of the England of the Victorian era. variably acquires a liberal polish abroad even
r%t Adventures of a Sportsman in L.ecuyer. This is perhaps the most trustworthy The proud significant p of the great achieve- when he fails to gather moss. There are many
iR East.
monograph on the stirring days of July, IS3O, ment of a privilepn: -te of governing ama- discussions in the book of the condition of
the that has yet appeared. It is conclusively shown teurs has proved to 1 •<
yond her vision; she Poland and her future, hardly
less pessimistic
by the evidence brought together by M. L£cuyer has ntver been able to ri.se above her adulation
than those of "Without Dogma," but presented
..~> TF.AVKL INT THE FAR FAST. with a greater measure of realistic detachment.
afa /s&&s*.
•
pr J. fey i!-e author. Svo, pp. xW, 264.
With 6* illustrations from

6SSS
- Mi«to Company.
agreeable travelling eompan-
LITERARY NOTES.
G C w is an
X
I\u25a0 Tj^e himself, his adventures or his ot>
raze? of this handsome volume. He Mr. Charles Marriott has hit upon a ter?e
enough title for his new novel. He calls it, sim-
IJobs1 obligation
Jobs too
seriously: he Beds no ply, "Now."
ft^T
o" 1 rra dor-s rr.ind with improving informa-
went for a las* vacation— he
is an Francois Coppee i.s the latest of writers to bo
I: He diplomat nt present attached to our
honored by a statue in Pari?. His effigy in
kr %«a
T in Eer!in-he had what
has come to be
bronze has been fashioned for erection in him,
Place Saint Francois Xavier. It represents
the

m^ aD^, inevitably as a "bully

Ls down in .-. armchair and tells
time," and, with a cigarette between his fingers.

I Thp Macmillians will shortly publish a book

"'"^tVhat
r " iWfSI ke«P you entertained. Sport was
interrfted him most, which is which not students of archeology alone but all
thoughtful sportsman should find of interest.
a surfeit of shooting It is a study by Mr. Norman E. Gardiner, of
f Soli kut, aft.r "Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals." Tho
and tracking in many books, he
SjfStittix* volume is divided into two parts, the first be-
Sif does not make too much of it, even ing occupied with a history of athletic festivals
JJfc. cannot help glowing over some of his in Greece from the earliest time-s to the year
303 A. D.. the second comprising chapters on
The book is to contain about
jgfoimsed the jungles of the Malay pea-
specific sports.
two hundred illustrations.
Lia,
SwialeS
'''
where he
tJ 'c
caught fever,
l?Frin?:s of N. w Zealand,
of course; he re-
The literary cafe, for generations character-
U
- Bedatexter.siv<-!y in Northern India, went istic of Paris, is still an institution, but it is
not quite so familiar to-day as type it once was.
-\u25a0 \u25a0
\u2666A*K--hir.ir £md Baltistan. and, having
perhaps because your brilliant is now-
2* ibex. fclack UaT dwelling ° ' markhor and sh.irpu,
more prosperous and therefore less dependent
%i ur- with the cave
tiger China. upon the conveniences of Bohemia,
correspondent of "The London Morning Post,"
A Paris

:\u25a0;\u25a0 S£Vg: alluding to one of the last of these pleasant

*-c Jungle Bains, flies and lounging places, speaks thus of its recent losses:
*wj! *>*&nrr fill°f
Jrfid
***\Sqomrinced
me that tiger shooting in
Death has levied heavy toll of late on the
-'"'^' fac' Its distinct disadvantages
a0 \'<ii for a bealthf oJ country and a re-
'\u25K
«*cre cr.e could
and
enjoy
had
liv-
A TIGER SHOT NEAR AMOY. IN CHINA,
hatjiti:es. A year or so ago Catulle Mendes might
have been the first to arrive and make the cafa
•-vip atmosphere. ring with his fearless epigram on the latest play,
(From a photograph.)
gSlriiootias at the same time— a paradox in little dreaming of the. violent death that awaited
\u25a0

him in the tunnel so near his home. Or it might

picturesque trophies ever that Charles X, even had he displayed greater of the social side of this aristocracy. Out of have been Jean Koreas strayed down from the
One of the most Latin Quarter with his eyeglass and heavy mus-
added, is the tiger energy, never could have quelled the revolt by her own love of culture she has drawn a Vic- tache, the poet who always remembered that he
M^Bjfcß*. '\u25a0 \u25a0

was the son of Athens born by the stream of the

military force. The rank and file and nearly al! torian society at play, not at its
work, a society
Anjoy by Mr. Grew, the picture serv- Ccphissu?, though lie tried to forget that his real
near
ts the Btßrtispieoe of his
book. the line officers were against him. He had that talks, not of influence, alliance, appoint- name was Papadiaaiantopoulos. True, it was not
and preferment, of great tasks to be done here that Moreas's asfavorite waiter would burst
"iits ci picturesque description cf countrj' and neither time, money nor provision?.
are intermingled with pas- ready cash at the King's disposal at St. Cloud and accomplished and
All the ment
rewarded, but of Dante into
doggerel verse he brought the poet's coffee,
&m \ u 2 5 a 0 \ u 2 5 a 0 towr.s J'apporte la tasse,
- ap* from the
bA in observation like the following:
history of '\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0• Sepoy rebellion, when the revolution broke out was 4,000 francs, and the Renaissance, of Horace and excavated
and he was compelled to order his few faithful Roman villas. There lies her interest, n/.t in and receive for his pains a scathing'<• "Imbecile!"
De Monsieur MorCas,

actually to pillage the treasury of the the affairs of kingdom and empire which she so but it was here that .Moreas used lament tho
-v» 5« ootWn? romantic a^-out the "road to troops misfortune of !iis genius. "Icannot write a new
Bn&tW*: at ]<?.'i>t. certainly not about the rail- Department of the Seine et Oise to obtain an- fumblingiy attempts to employ as part of her book," he would say. "without injuring myself.
IZ'ii which we'- k ina'.Mi.'intr T-rt-f«-reiice to the slower other sum of 30,000 francs.
the trip by the old
During the material. The Englishman whom she chooses People buy my now work, and • the circulation of
£'"a
raf i»-;wt(n ti.v
1
itean!* I^'.*!•-"
rather de?c!ate banks of the flight of the royal family the Duchesse de Berry to contrast with the Canadian in 'Lady Mer- my earlier books falls off at ace."
\u25a0'J^r^iv r.r-T «?.<aboutth*-r*». to our mind*, much bag that contained a few ton, Colonist." is not a typical representative of
S«srenantlc Mandalay itself. In Kast- overturned a velvet Mr. John 11. Ingram has finished the bicg-
hundred dollars in large silver franc pieces. his race, but a dawdling, indolent dilettante,
mtSOa on? for Mandalay's lack of charm. For expects ase above all. and this per- raphy of Chatterton on which he has \<-iy-; heen
mother of the Due de Bordeaux aided in with l.is heart in Italy an.l his handkerchief to at work, and it i.s promised for early publica-
«acowmts
...
•,'c£-;:aT'ol Kir.sr Mindon Mm dates
mxt »a
only from The
. syrr.^etric-al picking up the coins as she said: "Great his fastidious rK-se amid the sweat of the ghmt tion.
fit ', New V.-rk or the Back Bay of Boston, Heavens! we have not too many of these silver energy of em fire building by rough, uncouth pud's life in the light of considerable resear tx
ard IS laid
In it he teils the tragic story of the
kdki i irints some verses by Cnatterton which
.j-? st*<?ets a^i'' av^n-jes. or "roads." bear such Turning to her lady-in-waiting, she asked: colonials. The book may serve to dispel a cer- and
~r-sic ianivs a? r*>4tn strt-et." or "B road." It bits." Mine, de Damas, do you tain condescension
have hitherto remaint d unknown.
•"tsses qti* ci.!'\u25a0'.'•' with the glare of its \izi- "How much money. toward colonials which still
t&ofA,custy, white ex; arse. ever industrious Mr. E. V. Ln^as wHI
think we have been able to collect by uniting rules strong in England, but one- would like to - mably
The
have a volume or two of essays to
Jtr. Grew grows serioas when he speaks of all the parses of the
family?"' "Why. Isup- have pome- representative Canadian's opinion
"No, c, that the fore when the holiday season cornea around.
\u25a0y s;-jalcr ar.d poverty of the
swarming cities pose several hundred thousand francs!" in- of it—Miss Agnes Laut's. for instani e^r
Meanwhile, it is announced that he is ut work
'lidia, tst lat-:r en. when .-.-.. Himalayas, deed! Allthat we can scrape together does not of the author of 'The Imperialist," the best apon a story for children, to which he haa
•ifcfcnns us th^t "Rale 1of the Indian cook amount to 40,000 francs!" picture of Canadian life and conditions yet writ- gfven the name of "Slow Coach."
ifiMys, 'Do net •.--.- cook because M. Ifaxime Vuillaume, one of the former lead-
'.e-n—the opinion of Mrs. Everard Cotc3. The 450th anniversary of the University ct
vis dishonest: they are all dishonest, and ho Versatility is not tin least of the literary Bale will be celebrated on the of thi3
ers of the Paris Commune- in 1871, has put to- The committee of organization h;is de-
gether his diary, his souvenirs and his remi- merits of Mr. J. C. Snaith. He passes from month.' cided to collect a fund for widows and orphans
entertaining
niscences and written a thoroughly such an ultra-modern, probing chronicle of of university professors. The absence ot such
and May. conditions "Broke
account of the terrible days of April changing English so.ial as a fund has prevented some eminent men from
Itis entitled "Mes Cahiers Rouges," and is pub- of Covenden" to a mediaeval romance like accepting a chair at liaie. where the number of
The author tells in a case a:;d competence that students is not large enough to assure the pro-
lished by OllendorfL "Fortune" with an
fessor an honorarium sufficient both to support
straightforward, concise way exactly what he well serve to keep alive an.l strength* n the In- his family and to provide {•>? them in case of
saw. His power of description is remarkable. terest in his work of those who have followed his death. The plan is, therefore, no* only
has thorough knowledge of the physiognomy his own fortunes in this country from the h'r.st. charitable, but a!;;o for the best interests of iho
He university.
of Paris, and every historic building, street and His new Look contains four striking characters.
cafe is made more Interesting to the tourist by The tirst of them is a gigantic English scldier Araeri readers will be interested in a
the disclosure of some new and startling epi- of fortune, a swaggering rogue with a tre- bo< k <i voted to th<-> life and times of John '
s, which is now in course of pr ;>a-
\u25a0odes that took place near it. All lovers of mendous capa< ity for food and drink -md laugh- ration V.iK a ]>"••':

Cahiers Rouges." with a saving sense- of humor and a gift for

by Mr. Lewis Melville. A mass of un-
Paris should read Ties ter, published material i- to be -\u25a0\u25a0! Unrein, .:::•'. a
bold ilotting as jrreat as his c/mrnsre. The sec- great part its pages will !»\u25a0 given over to
No French officer has had wider or more ond is a Spanish noble youth, in^'er.uous and Wilki s"s r< of lotion with the moving spirits of
varied experience in campaigning with native
the soul of henor, who starts out :>> seek a the Fr< ..\u25a0 h l: volution.
troops In Africa than Lieutenant Colonel Bara-
amusing little book, career with his father's sword and horse and a
tier, whose Instructive and
few gold pieces. The third is a French ad- Another volume which v.m make some appeal
"A Travers l'Afrique," is published by A. Fay-
a Spanish
to
tr-rma^rant, U)..readers In this country is a compilation of
Colonel Baratier has made a thorough venturer, and the fourth letters ol Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver
ard. command <>f her doddering father's Hobbes). These epistles deal chiefly with liter-
Study of the inhabitants of the regions of the who tiikes King of Spain. .Mr. Fnaith ary topi s and many of them axe addressed to
Niger, the Soudan and the Eahr-el-Ghazal. He castle and defies the distinguished writers. The book will be pub-
physically, has read Cervantes and Rabelais and I-- Sage,
lished in the autumn.
has analyzed the Central Africans and, no doubt, Maurice Hewlett, to good pur-
mentally and morally. He presents the dusky pray, could cne write picares';u<-
athletic tribes of the Oubangui, the Ouolof, the r.
pose. How, Court life in France during the minority of
the Zandes in highly mance of such quality as "Fortune" without Louis xv is the subject of tho fourth volume
Djours and
Touaregs, the understanding of *he best ex- in the series of French memoirs issued by the
picturesque aspects. Colonel Baratier's narra- knowledge and Sturgis & Walton Company. This volume,
He amples of the genre? The spirit of respect for which will probably be brought out in Septem-
tive is replete with thrilling adventures. chivalry which* pervades "Don ber, is to bear the title of "Secret Memoirs of
riflemen, now in- the soul of
claims that the Senegalese Quixote" h.'-s been caught in these i^ges; the the Regency." The original was compiled from
corporated in the French colonial army, have secret papers and drawn from personal obser-
embassy of the Englishman, the Spaniard and
E2SEB DAUGHTER WITH HER no superiors in theTheworld for endurance and of France- to offer vation by Charles Pinot Duek»s. an eminent
illustrations by M. Gas- the Frenchman to the court member of the French Academy in the eigh-
FATHER'S BUST. fighting qualities. King is both capital romance teenth century.
excellent. It is a pity an alliance to the
1 &c engraving
in her edition of his letters.). ton de Eurg&raff are