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bes = CIVILIZATION ¥ PAL The Filipino’s Prayer. O wer. pert to bow my stubborn nm ach me to hold in check s patriotism, y despotism. When I read history, let m nclusions, Atmerican illusions Of right to freedom uncurt inst foreign interventio For hitherto I fear I've failed To see their kind int chased, let me be free of guile d scorn all indireetion ; When water-cured, t Extolling vivisection In short, ma a fool, T pray, As quickly as you ean, ach we to smile, at [become upon that day A good American. WW. Whitetock. »sthumous novel, of Kate, Its mainspring is the unprac- J? Mowsray's 2s The Conquerin is a very preity story. tical pride of three ladies trained in the ways of ante-bellum Virginia and brought sofa the face to face with the modern necessi ja estate. W volume holds less of that persoual charm southern Pennsylv which made A Journey to 2 freshing, it yet bears the (Doubleday, Pa mprint of the same hand and Com- pany. $1.50.) ‘The hero of William Farquhar Payson’s novel, The Triumph of Life, is a young author, a literary Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, who writes over the public's head as Enoch Lloyd, and down to the pul Dolly Cohen, Th Dolly Cohen ¢ or, as might express it, a thank-olfering of twad- dle upon the altar of the great god Bosh (Harper and Brothers, $1.50.) 's level as of the noch Lloyd book is disti eall a and ¢ One can hardly sketches of New nong all the t types a ‘LAP E « lifelike portrayal than George S$. Wasson’s report of the meetings of the more stranded and drydocked old. skippers of Killick Cove in Cap'n Simeou's Store. book will be fascinating to ar one who enjoys these old characters done to the life. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. $1.50.) H. Rider Haggard’s Promethean im: nation is not the same the advanes the explorer drove him from the African Mounta Peart Maiden is an excell sof the Moon into whine of adventures in thet d the fallof Jerusalem—but it is not ard. (Lon and Com- uns, Gree A volume of essays and sketches by Charles Warren Stoddard, which bears the title of Exits and Entrances, relates largely to inent writers, Stevenson, George Eliot and others, and to his own experiences in various parts of the world. Mr. Stov 's individuality is strongly impressed upon a very entertain- ing book, (Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston. $1.25.) the author's recollections of et Marty is the title of John Strange Win- ter's regular semi-annual novel, Mrs. Stan- rd, once an adept at pretty lish country life, constant purveyor of perfectly clean trash, with a to the most unobjectionable avor of below stairs. Marty isone of the best of her later books. (J. B. Lippincott Philadelphia. S125.) pneeits of is now sentiments Company Jean Webster's sketches of girls’ under- gradu: Patty Went to College are done in a very bright and dainty style Patt ful, 3 should find many friends, $1.50.) ysin When (The Century Compan: J.B, Kerfoot. Military. N ILITARY training is a grand, + good thing for boy: It braces up their To be sure, it h them bloodthirsty; but blood is more wholesome than beer, and just about as cheap. Solemn, Etc. [7 '5.% solema thing to belong to a peopte favored of God,— Grocer Cleveland. Solemn and, with battleships becom- ing obsolete about as soon as they are built, not inexpensive. Literary Notes. pHe following books are announced. for early publication: Nature Studies, by an Unnaturalis: Stories, by the author of Six Trees ; When Pens Are Out and Ink's Aflow, by Cyrus Townsend Brad: The last item is remarkable, as there is usually no time to announce Mr. Brady's books. He has published nine volames this month, as compared with six for the same month last year. There is talk of a dividend on Inter- national Paper Common. The success of the cabbage school of literature promises to start quite a fad for root-cellar sentiment. Cauliflower Carrie, Peggy of the Parsnips and Pick= ing Pease with Polly are among the more successfal of the spring vege- tables, Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has been spending a good deal of time near the brown bear in front of a prominent Chestnut street furrier’s, and it is hoped that we shall soon have an- other volume of his experiences. Both Mr. Seton Thompson and the bear wear “t mile that won't come off.”” Mr. Clyde Fitch is busy novelizing all his plays. He says that a poor rule should work both ways. Maurice Maeterlink's new volume of poetical entomology, The Ileart History of « Potato Bug, isin press. It is said to be largely biographical. All in Order. {PHERE may be truth in the ramor that our residential contemporary, The House Beautiful, is to have new departments; one to be The Barnyard Graceful, one The Henhouse Ugly, and yet another, The Back Staira Akard. They will be edited by the man Busy, assisted by the boy Careless. comicbooks.com