THE BOOK SHELF.
“In The Permanent Way.”
As odious as are comparisons at
ost times it yet becomes scarce possi-
ble not to make them as one reads on
in Mrs. F. A. Steele’s collection of
stories of life in India, which she has
called, “In The Permanent Ways.”
Rudyard Kipling has spoiled most of
us for any attempt which another may
make to use the ground he has fairly
won for his own. Yet one feels that
there is more than a strong proba-
bility that here is more fact and less
fiction, more truth if less art. Kipling
has far greater dramatic power than has
Mrs. Steele, and a finer sense of pro-
portion and perspective, but he does
not know his India any better than does
the writer of “On the Face of the
Waters.” There are some things in-
deed, which escape a man’s eye and
heart, which the intuitive sense of the
woman discovers.
One feels the measures of hand dis-
played in this absolute knowledge of
the subject as the author here unravels
the complicated problem presented by
the varied races and caste which makes
up the population of that part of the
British Empire. Long before the book
is finished the teeming roadways, the
thronged bazaars, the crowded temple
steps which fill its pages, oppress one as
might the physical contact with that
multitude, bringing in an overpowering
sense of the endless struggle there go-
ing on for bare existence. The old
man flying through the night with the
curly head of the little English child
pillowed on his shoulder, the super-
stition and alien faith in the story
which gives the book its name, the wild
jealousy and despair of the childless
woman who must give another wife to
her husband that he may have a son,
are all real and convincing and weigh
one down. It needs the perfectly
drawn pictures of the children in “A
Young Lochinvar” to relieve the pres-
sure of sorrow and unhappiness.
It is all worth well reading. It is
more than merely: interesting, for it
adds materially to one’s knowledge of
the world and human hearts—and there
is little fiction of which one can say
as much. (Macmillan and Company,
$1.50.)
“Phe Envisible Man.”
One of the shrewdest literary men in
London has prophesied that this latest
story by Mr. H. G. Wells would prove
the book of the season. If this turn out
to be true it will scarcely be surprising,
for “The Invisible Man’’ is not only a
decidedly original and striking story
but provocative of thought along the
line of the limits which may be placed
to the present march of invention.
The author has chosen as his subject
a certain Englishman who, by following
up scientific principles, here carefully
and plausibly explained, found that he
could render himself invisible. Natur-
ally enough he saw the possibilities in
his discovery possibilities of fabulous
wealth and power greater than the
power which goes with wealth. But he
found, too, that his goal was not a para-
dise. For, although invisible, he was
not intangible, and further, although his
body was invisible, his clothes were not.
Consequently, in order to enjoy the full
privileges of his invisibility, he had to
go naked, which was not comfortable
in that damp climate. He found that if
he took food he was visible until it was
assimilated, while it was often embar-
rassing that the dishes on which it was
served should be seen mounting to the
unseen mouth. :
The story has been worked out along
this line and the result is truly amusing.
It is no mere piece of sensationalism,
for Mr. Wells has brought to the writ-
ing of his fantastic fiction a keen liter-
ary sense and a wide scientific educa-
tion which lends a strange, almost con-
vincing, verisimilitude to his astound-
ing story. (Edward Arnold, $1.25.)
“The Story of an Untold Love.”
Paul Leicester Ford cannot help.turn-
ing out a story that is eminently read-
able. Everyone knows how good was
“The Honorable Peter Sterling.” Here
is a sort of obverse to that book, ap-
pealing to a smaller audience, just as
literary and journalistic life appeals to
narrower interests than does politics,
but to every man and woman of letters
truly fascinating.
VAI “ALUMNI IwWEnnay
The title is somewhat misleading.
The question of love is not the para-
mount one. In the opening chapters
the feeling is warm and tender, but
thereafter the work bends in’ another
direction, and the ultimate happiness of
Rudolph Hartzman and his sweetheart
becomes of far less interest than the
account of the struggle of the career of
a literary man.
Every journalist of experience will
recognize the type of chicanery por-
trayed in Whitely, and many a young
writer has been confronted by the prob-
lem, here searchingly followed to its
conclusion, of whether or no, one may
in honor allow his work to appear
above another’s signature. Another
and still more vital question is the
moral responsibility involved by the
buyer—and there are many more such
buyers than the uninitiated might sus-
pect. In this case the buyer is a busi-
ness man, who, arguing that all is fair
in love, publishes as his own a book
which another man has written, that so
he may commend himself to an intel-
lectual woman who disdains the merely
commercial. Of course the real author
loves the same beautiful woman, and
one wishes his scruples had asserted
themselves before he knew why his
rival had paid a fabulous sum for a dry
manuscript. It seems almost too severe
a punishment that he should learn that
the book had convinced the woman in
the case that the other man was not
a mere minting machine, but nobler,
finer than he seemed, “that no man but
one of noble character and fine mind
could write from such a standpoint.”
That it alb ends as it should it is
pleasant to bear in mind, but the book
is of decided interest and value quite
apart from that fact, and is perhaps the
keenest dissection of the instincts of the
literary temperament that has been
written in these modern days. (Hough-
ton, Mifflin and Company, $1.25.)
Warwick JAMES PRICE.
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December “ Lit.”
The contents of the December Lit-
erary Magazine are:
Stories—‘The Idols,” by Richard
Hooker, ’99; “S. P. C. A. in Extension,”
by C. E. Hay, ’99; “In the Western
Country,” by Hulbert Taft, 1900. —
Essays—‘Melior,’ by F. H. Winters,
1900; “Poetry of John Davidson, by
G. W. Carleton, ’909; “Kipling’s Re-
cessional,” by Isham Henderson, ’99.
Poems—‘“Benedictus, etc.,” by H. M.
Young, ..’00;. “‘There’s One Keeps
Watch,” by Forsyth Wickes, 98;
‘Ballade of Hope Deferred,” by C. E.
by B. Moore, ’99; ‘““Mammy’s Ephe,”’
H. Mason, ’99;. “An Island,” by H.
Mason, ’99; “The End of Vigil,” by
H. C. Robbins, ’99.
Portfolios—‘Boy’s Friend,” by R.
Hooker, ’99; “The Black Arrow,” by
R. Hooker, ’99; “Bruges La Morte,”
by B. Moore, ’99; “Mammy’s Ephe,”
by J. M. Hopkins, 1900; “Mexican
Fancy,” by F. M. Atterholt, Jr., 1900;
“Gascon Wine, etc.,’ by H. A. Calla-
han, ’99; “The Gringoes’ Smuggler,”
by Hulbert Taft, 1900: “Old Men of
Holmes,” by H. D. Gallaudet, *o8;. “At
the Peat Stacks,’ by W. S. Hastings,
IQOT.
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* Scientific Monthly” Contents.
The December number of the Scien-
tific Monthly contains the following arti-
cles: “Mississippi Floods,’ by William
W. Knight, *o9:-S.; . “Nansen’s. Trip
Across Greenland,” by William Wal-.
ker, ’99 S.; “Separation of Gold and Sil-
ver in the Mint,” by Howard L. Davis,
’909.:«S.; “The Developement of the
South African Diamond Fields,” by
Henry S. Canby, ’99 S., and “Develope-
ment in Marine Engines,’ by Osborn
A. Day, ’99 S. There are also the usual
Departments.
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Paper Chases.
The final scores for the cup offered
by E. C. Perkins, ’98, to the one win-
ning the most points in the series of
paper chases, which has just been com-
pleted, are as follows:
C. B. Spitzer, ’90, 21 points; A. H.
Richardson, 1001, 19 points; J. W. Falls,
1900 S., 15 points; N. B. Beecher, ’98,
10 points; M. Scudder, ’99, 8 points;
H. M. Poynter, 1900, 5 points; J. P.
Adams, 1900, 4 points; S. F. Shattuck,
’99.: S., 2 points; S. Bartlett, 1900, 2
points; G. Green, 1900, I point.
C. B. Spitzer, ’99, therefore wins the
cup.
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