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Indiana again comes to the literary front In "Mile. Fouchette," an extreme ly dramatic love story with French characteristics of frlvolty and passion, two editions of which already have been irnude by J. B. "Llppencott Co. The author, Mr. Charles Theodore Murray, was educated at the Indiana Stale University, at the home of Booth Tarkington. author of "The Gentleman from Indiana," and other dork. Mr. Murray achieved some -prominence Is- Jouriiallsmdurlnir-P-Rt years, but flnally dropped the profes sion for general literature. He haa trawlled extensively at home and abroad, and he spent two years In Paris preparing- the way for "Mile. KoweheUe." A new edition of "The Carlsslma," by Lucas Malet, Is one of the results of the popularity of The History of Kir Richard Calmady." The book was published several years ago by Messrs. Htiert 8. Stone & Co., and createJ something of a sensation.' It deserves this resurrection. , "The Cloistering of Ursala," by Clin ton Srcllard, is an Italian story told in a highly entertaining and pleasing; style. .The background of an old Ital ian elty, .with Its spacious palaces and dark streets and alleys, gives excel lent scope for deeds of enterprise and worth. The book opens with on ac count Of a dastardly attempt on the part of one political faction to ex terminate entirely its rival, by a baRC murder of the entire family at a be trothal banquet. One son alone es cape aad henceforth his desire to re venge the members of his family be comes the one object of liis life. While making his escape from the massacre of Ms friends he falls in with Ursala, the heroine of the story, and through h'-r Intervention fortune attends his efforts and he succetSi In getting away safety. Ursala is afterwards Intrusted to the hero's care to be delivered to his Bister, under whose protection she was.. as . live until she should decide wbenr to enter a convent or not. Many adventures befall them on this JoanKW, ending In the complete re venge of his enemies and his own res torHon to his rights and power In l he state. The prill y romance end In the way to be expected and Ursala declare, with her parting words that his ancestral garden, "is the one be. yond an others In the world that I wouM choose for my cloistering." The story is highly dramatic and full of Incident and action. L. C. Page & Co., Itosttm. Mary Devereux, autnor of "Up and Iova the Bands of Gold," is spending the winter in Boston, nearer the scene of her novels, her home being In Cleve lhnd Ohio. "Up and Down the Sands of Gold," published last fall, has had a steady sale, while her previous book, "Frean Kingdom to Colony," is stil in demand at booksellers. She has already written another novel, which her pub lishers, Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, txpect to bring out later in the year. It Is to be feared that "The Perfect Woman," which has been translated from the French of Charles Balnt-Foi by Kphlrlne N. Brown, will fall to find favor with the self-sufficient American. Not that the advice Is not good. It Is. Hut the air of elevated aloofness with which It is tendered, makes It some what dlstasterut. Pubiisncd by Mar ller & Co., Boston. Messrs. Herbert 8. Stone & Co. have shraovered a new writer In Richard Ftaguilt, who is to bring out his first book this month. "Mazel" is a story of life in one of the southern universities aad deals chiefly with a professor of French who has not become entirely A laertcan and a little French governess wbe drops suddenly into this alien fuothern atmosphere. The originality bf the thing Is said to be largely in the (race of the treatment. "The Perverts," Is the title of a new toafc by William Lee Howard. It Is a novel with a purpose, the apparent abject being to call attention to the connection between mental deformity tad crime. The author is a well known contributor to scientific magazines on that subject and la fully competent to Uncus It even In the form of a sory. tie takes the postUuii that the Indi vidual la Just as liable to have the growth In the cell, making up certain Itstinct centers in the brain disturbed tnd distorted, as In the cells making up any other center, physiological and physical, from which it follows that It Is unreasonable to send a man to prls sa because he to deformed in certain physical centers. The author explains in his preface that the characters In the atory are drawn from real life. As a matter, of course, some are toned sown and others are polished up to suit the purpose of the story. It la a book that will Interest readers who are fond of studying into mysteries of heredity, and brain development. O. W. Dilling ham company, New York. It I the king of Navarre who mo nopollsee one particular oath, so when you read In a romance, "Ventre St. 49rtot" you may be absolutely certain that it to Henry IV who la swearing. The period when the Incidents occur taTlM Roto of the Unconquered," by Test Dal ton, Is just at the close of the ststsentb century. Henry la In Tus can y, accompanied by Rosny, Bassom piere and other of bin courtiers, and to teat marrying Maria da Madid. Marie,. who does not kaow the gallant Hawrv svsn by Bight, haa no llklnk tor the atatea and refuses to do tat btd- ding of her uncle Ferdinand, the grand duke of Florence. The duke of Savoy is Henry's rival, and Savoy plots to ward the overthrowing of the grand duke and the murder of Henry. Sud denly the king of France disappears. He has determined to win Marie, in disguise. Tie assumes the dress and manners of Cardinal Maczini and thus wins Marie's heart. Henry has many narrow escapes, for Savoy employs a cunning rascal, Mateo, the condotlere, to polnard the king of France. W. G Dillingham Co., New York. "Captain Jinks. Hero," by Ernest Crosby, is a satirical novel upon the military history ofthe United States since the outbreak of the Spanish war. Sam Jinks, its hero, Is first shown as an Innocent country lad whose taste for military affairs Is planted by i chance gift of lead soldiers. It Is cul tlvated by his training In the "John Wesley's Boys' Brigade," and firmly established by a career at "East" Point In which Institution he obtains a ca detship. "Hazing" at West Point is at tired n a most complete and clever fashion, and Its Inciiletns are further more made to serve a vital purpose in developing the motif of the entire Htory, viz., 'the similarity of militarism and savagery. A love romance, too, Is started at "East" Point, which gives to the book the heart interest of a novel. Sam meets Marlon, a "college widow." and Is captured by her. She foments his ambitions The "Cuba- nino" war breaks out. Sum leaves "East" Point and becomes a volunteer soldier. Cleary. a classmate, accom panies him, as a correspondent of the Lyre, the leading "yellow journal." A plan Is arranged by the paper to make Sain the hero of the war, and the Lyre's special property. Funk & Wag nalls company, New York. The scenes of "The Giant's Gate," Max Pemberton's new book, are laid in France and England today, at a time when the national feeling against the Jews broke forth into frequent and bloody riots. It Is a strong picture of present sonditlons In France. The gay. thoughtless life of the people, their pitiable weaknesses and vacillating temperaments are portrayed with a truthful hand. The personality of Jules Davlgnon, the youngest general In the French army, and the one most beloved by the people, stands out in bold relief. A man peculiarly endowed with the gift of leadership, he de votes his time and energies to but one end to give his country Its religion, its ai my and Its place among nation. The woman who loves him a beautiful English girl of rank is strongly In sympathy with his work, for the lifting of France to Its position among the nations, and renounces her claim to his love In order that he may unre servedly serve his country. Her devo tion to Davlgnon, her faith In the final realization of his hopes for France, encourage him when all else falls. And the reward that France gives for this unswerving loyalty Is banishment from the country. Frederick A Shokes company, New York. The April Era Is better than any of its predecetisors, Its table of contents showing greater variety and even greater excellence. Its numerous cap ital features are all brimful of amuse ment and Instruction, while the articles stories and poems complete the harmo nious whole. Canton, the liOiiie of Li Hung Chang, Is pictured by G. W. Irwin; Catherine Louise Smith writes of "Children's Flower Gardens and Their Uses;" "The English Regalia" Is described by George Ethelbert Walsh, while Lucy C. Lillie chats about "The Crowning of the King." The artistic reader will welcome "Robert Reid's Mural Decoration In New State House at Boston," by Charles Henry Hart. Articles of a critical nature are con tributed by Penn Steele and Alfred Matthews. "The Cause of Good Gov ernment" finds a doughty champion in Benjamin C. Potts; William S. Walsh questions whether women have intui tion. There Is an installment of Joel Chandler Harris's story, "Gabriel Tol llver," as weii as the "House of Mv Cann" the latter the first of a series of character studies In the guise of fiction, by Karl Edwin Harriman, who has found material In an Isolated com munity of flsher-folk dwelling on an inland in one of the great lakes. John Trotwood Moore, Thcodosia Garrison, and others, contribute poems. And the foremen tioned Is only part of the read ing waiter offered (not to speak of the many excellent Illustrations) for ten cents. Bcrlbner's Magazine for April begins a new novel by Richard Harding Davis an event of the first Importance to all lovers of good Action. "Captain Macklln," which begins In this num ber, la one of the longest novels written by Mr, Davis and Is his first since "Soldier of Fortune." It Is his most mature work, and narrates the ad ventures of a young West Pointer who was dismissed from the academy and went to Honduras to make a name for himself si a soldier with a body of revolutionists. It Is romantic and ad venturous In every page, and the de velopment of the hero from his "cub" stage to a self-reliant soldier Is de pleted with even more skill than Mr, Davia haa heretofore shown which means that It Is a triumph In narrative fletlon. This Installment and all others will be Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. The atory will run through six numbers. "If I were a King" by Justin Hunt toy McCarthy U on of the handsomest and most Interesting books we have re reived (hi. ? i. v... .u. . "-wVis, a V II Ma;U VII 1K author's drama with the aame title . which has been played so successfully for several mn.K. c .v. and bis company. "If I were a King" has for Its hero Francois Villon, the "sad, mad, bad, glad poet," over whom Swinburne rhapsodized sympathetically some years ago and who was an all round ruffian and sentimentalist In Paris in the time of that greater but less Interesting scoundrel, King Louis XI. Mr. McCarthy has taken the besF course to make his novel popular which is by having It dramatized and then published. Mr. McCarthy waa a clever novelist before he took to dramatic work, but the latter has enabled him to confine himself to the action of the story and to make the most of hla in cidents and situations, gome of the pages are as picturesque and startling as good ones by the elder Dumas and the people are almost without excep tion quite as frankly wicked as Dumas' own. The book is profusely Illustrated with the drama's scenes and eharac ters, some of them fn color and all of them in tint. This book Is DubllBhed by R. H. Russell of New York. 11 1-2 C P 1MTA - y. T ( '! ,.:;:; PHOTOGRAPH OF AUTHOR OF "MiSS PETTICOATS." It 1 now announced that It seems quite positive the mysterious author of Miss Petticoats" Is a man, and there fore not a woman. This revelation is made through the medium of a pho tograph which has Just reached the offices of the C. M. Clark company. who are to publish this book m May. All through the country R has been announced the past two or three weeks that the name of Dwlght Tllton as the author of this novel was simply the invention of the publishers who did not know who wrote "Miss Petticoats." One day this week a photograph was received with this note: "Since I have not seen fit to give you my name, but have allowed you to name me, I think Perhaps my photograph may be some consolation. I trust that it shall not puzzle you too much when I say that n some ways it Is my picture and in some ways It is not. I doubt If I shall reveal my Identity until after the book Is published. It depends upoa certain ircumstances." This leaves the pub lishers more In the dark than ever xcept that they know the apthor lives. Whether Dwlght Tllton is a new man or an author with an already- es tablished reputation remains for the solution of time, which usually sets such matters right. Meanwhile the book is being heavily ordered la ad vance. Suoooasful Young Saggar. People who make It a habit to give indiscriminately to beggars "In order to get rid of them," or because they pity what those beggars seem to be, will perhaps read the following with a lively interest: A young woman named Jennie Cold was not long ago arersted in New York for over-Intense and too pronounced Industry in her favorite occupation. The mother of this helpless and needy object came Into court and voluntarily gave the following beautiful little anec date about her hopeful daughter: "When Jennie was thirteen year old she went to work In a wrapper fac tory on the East Side, At the end of the first week she drew her money, came home and declared that she would not do that hard and dirty work any more. She said she knew a way to earn her living easier than that. Nothing could get her to go back again. "She began to beg. For six years she has supported herself In that way, buy ing the best clothes and going to the theaters all the time. Why, I could dress for two years on what she spendi In a month. "Her plan was to stay around the Sixth avenue department stores, espe cially on rainy days, and beg from the ladles as they came out. Five dollars a day waa a small sum for her. "During all these years she has never given one cent to the support of the family, although she haa lived upon us most of the time." Whora Man Cat to Llvo. "The Trapplst Monks consider eating to be a necessary evil," says John Rail Osborne In Llppencott's March magazine, "and curtail It to such a de gree that one step further would be suicide. Dinner, to which scarcely fif teen mlnutea is devoted, consists of a mess of vegetables boiled In water without butter or salt and served In a crude earthenware bowl, a slice or two or rye bread without butter, and a mug of milk or water as a beverage. Supper Is the barest apology for a meal being nothing more than bread and water. The guestmaster did not men tion breakfast; if thera be such a meal, It probably consists merely of a glass of water. A alight relaxation of this dietary Is allowed Invalids, who may have two egga a day, while on extraor dinary occasions, such as a funeral feast In honor of a departed friar, the monks revel In an egg apiece. They are strict vegetarians, and a Trapplst must be In the very Jawa of death be fore he will consent to eat meat. How these poor, untiring tollers can exist on such feeble fod surpasses my com prehension; and yet I saw Individuals at Weslmalle who had been undergoing the rigid regime for half a century. The majority of the veterans, however, were haggard, sad faced and prover bially sleek, jolly, rotund monk W goant, and bora no semblance to Um cloister." - 1 ""'-" " " l rrnme; -runjc, larrner-soiaier of the Transvaal. With almost a cen- D",wen lnem- lneJf un,,e ,n con" fcrrlng a sad immortality upon the name of a lonely mid-Atlantic isle. St. Helena! The name spells tragedy. In 1815, broken ambition; In 1900, crush ed patriotism. For It is here on this volcanic speck In the ocean that Eng land cages the mightiest fo her beaten enemies Seek it out on a map and see how remote it is from the" world 1,250 miiea from the coast of Africa. 1.800 miles from South America, the name from Cape Town, t,050 miles from London, of which it has been a dependency for loO years. Its extreme length is ten and a quar ter miles, Itn extreme breadth eight and a quarter miles, its area 45 square mites. Its population 5,000 human be ings, three-fifths of whom are clustered in Jamestown and innumerable goats. The Islan dis an ancient volcano, thrust up in fire from the floor of the sea, long since dead and cold, some what enlarged by the slow processes of nature and garmented not atone with an indigenous flora so varied as to be the delight of the botanifrt, but alas with exotics from aH climes, so that I', presents the aspect of a botanical garden the oak growing aide by side with the bamboo and banana, and date palms shooting skyward from fields of English gorse. St. Helena was quite a flourishing Island before the Sues canal was open ed. It waa a port of call for ocean truffle between Europe and the Orient. With the Junction of the Red sea and the Mediterranean It became as un fashionable as Cape Horn will be when the Nicaragua canal is open for busi ness, Cronje and his 4,000 burghers will al most double the population, which is a shadow of what It was In the pre-canal period. One of the most Interesting residents to M, Morllleau, the French consular agent In charge of Longwood, Napole on'a home. There he lives with his family, religiously preserving all me mentoes of the Bmperor. An Important feature of the place Is the. garrison. It Is quartered In bar racks on Ladder Hill so named on ac count of the wooden steps by which the eminence of COO feet must be scaled from the seaside. The hlgheat point of the Island Is 1,704 feet above the sea level. This Is Diana's peak." It has one near rival, High peak, rising 2.C36 feet. Both are tusks of the principal ridge, the north ern rim of a vast crater which belched Are thousands of years ago, There Is a legend that England seized the Island before It waa cold, but this Is untrue She grabbed it when the Dutch and Portuguese found they could do noth ing with It On August T, llll, when the world waa reverberating with the echoes of Waterloo, a beat waa rowed Into Fly- mouth Harbor from H. M. S. Beiler - ophon to H. M. S. Northumberland. 74 guns, flying the pennant of Rear Ad miral Sir George Cockburn, under or ders for St. Helena. In the stern of the boat sat he who was designated in England's official papers "Napoleon Bonaparte." The an chor was weighed and the Northumber land stood out to sea, bearing forever from Europe the man whose ambition her shores could not confine. One month ami ten days later the i Northumberland dropped anc hor in the harbor of Jamestown. Napoleon was escorted ashore and found a lodging in the town. Sir George Cockburn selected as the exile's residence, Longwood, the coun try seat of the lieutenant-governor. Thither next day the fallen emperor cantered along the lovely road, escort ed by his followers and a guard of English officers. On December 9 the French exiles moved to Longwood. With Napoleon were Count and Countess Montholon and their child, Baron Gourgaud; the Count de Las Cases and his young son, Captain Plontkowski and Dr. O'Meara, the young Irish surgeon whom Napo leon had picked from the British naval service as his private medical attend- ant. Caunt and Countess Bertrand and their three children were quartered In a little house at a distance. Dr. O'Meara used only portions of his diary In compiling his book. The entire MS. he bequeated to Louis Mail lard's descendants In the United States. Those parts that O'Meara did not dare to publish are at length being given to the world in the pages of the Century Magaslne. They show that Napoleon waa dissat isfied with the treatment accorded him. He found fault with Sir George Cock burn because of his seamanlike lack of ceremony, which O'Meara endeavored vainly to explain away. But this was mild compared to his hatred of Sir Hudson Lowe, who In April, 1818, suc ceeded Cockburn as governor of 8t, Helena. "I am convinced," he said, "that this governor, this chief of Jailers, has been sent out on purpose to poison me or put me to death in some way or an other, or under some pretext, by Lord Casllereagh. "I had reason to complain of the ad miral, but he, though he treated me roughly and was not Inclined to do as much good as lay In his power, never behaved in such a manner as this new Jailer, this Prussian more than Eng lishman." In such 'manner, more Indolent and fretful as the weary years passed, did Napoleon live, until In 1821 he died from a cancer in the stomach, But Napoleon was not the only royal prisoner to fret away his days on England's prison isle. General Cronje will encounter there two princes with whom he may have had former ac qualntance Dthl lull, too of Cetcwayo, :and I'ndabuko, brother of the same J redoubtable monarch. There were many disturbances after the Zulu king's death. His people, tho I'sutos, rose against their British pro tectors and wert suppressed. Cete wayo's son and brother were exiled to St. Helena for taking part in the re bellion. Prince Dini is described as having a noble bearirg and courteous manners. He and his followers make their home in a house known as Rosemary. FVili?' Viagyg iffy tVirt XT-i. 1 ....uurBmnt consented to DinI Zulu's release and a steamer was sent out from England to take all the exiles back to Zuiuland. Transported with Joy, the blacks made preparations to leave their island pris on. At the last moment the British war ship Swallow arlrved with an order countermanding the first. There had been a fresh outbreak between the Boers and Zulus, and it was deemed an inauspicious momnet to restore Dint to his own warlike people. 1 The present war makes still mote re- mote this prince's procpect of liberty. In sending Cronje to St. Helena the British military authorities are prob ably influenced by a variety of consid erations. In the first place, Cape Col- ony, with Its thre&tenlngs of an Ing of the Cape Dutch, and with the pronounced Boer sympathies of Afri kanders of Dutchi parentage, la no longer a safe place in which to keep prisoners of the importance of Oroaje and the men who defended themselves so heroically against Lord Roberts' great army. The most secure place for Cronje upon the arrival at Cape Town was deemed on board a British ship, but this for mof imprisonment prow.pt ly called out continental criticism, and possibly on that account, but more probably with a view to the greatest possible security against rescue, the famous Boer Is now to be sent to Great Britain's mid ocean prison. That not only the Boer general, but also his men, are to be deported to this prison, 2,000 miles from Brazil and 1,400 from Africa, with Ascension island, its near est neighbor, 700 miles away. Is a great compliment to the prisoners. The fact, also, that It is announced that no prisoners will be exchanged is a still further tribute to the valor of an en emy which has tested British mil rags and generalship more severely than H has been tried since Balaktava and) Malakoff. Pretty fancy waists are made of al ternate rows of inch-wide velvet and tucks running around the waist and sleeves. The rows of tucks fllll an lack, wide space. Other waists have the rib- . bon running lengthwise, with Ita width ' In tucks running across them. A pretty silk waist has narrow tucks sat aosaa distance apart, running lengthwtav f the waint, and over thta bands of ta silk stitched on diagonally iroaa. ahouldar to tba watat. Khaki la the latest fasolooaMa stationery. "if. v " ' " :- " . ' ' - " '" ' U :' ' ... . D
