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romances that encompass this day
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It Is full of life and force and color,
of a remarkable instinct for getting
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truth and sense out of them." '
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James, it ought te see the light at semt
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net In nny bud sense, but in the sense
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Ishments. When she wns a Rlrl, living;
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famous old Duke of Argyll at dinner
once and the next day he wrote te his
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the book is filled with accounts of her
cenqucstH. Kven Gladstone waa moved
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Hut there was mere te her than mere
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result. The book Is fragmentary nnd
disconnected discursive, ns the best
conversation is. Perhaps it reveals the
woman's Intellect in its true form, let
she discloses a brilllnney in clmrnctcrl clmrnctcrl
natien which many professional literary
women might envy. Fer example, in
the course of a description of various
women members of Seuls, the famous
Londen association of intellectual men
and women, she speaks of one as a
Iteman coin, of another as an Ital
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ballad. Of another she nays that "Hht
added te chronic presence of mind un
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"enameled self-assurance," and she
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finessed with the ethical basis of his
Intellect or had none." Yet both Hal-
four nnd Curien were her friends.
Her skill In saying merciless things
..tuMi tin friends is net accompanied
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said of her, for she quotes with appre
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.,i,.i Mm If he were coins te
marry her, that he rather thought of
having a career 01 ms uwu.
She summed up her own life better
than any one else could have done when
she wrote of it as: "An unfettered
childhood and triumphant youth; a let
of levemaklng nnu a muc uu,
little fame nnd mere abuse; a real man
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LIFE AND LETTERS
OF JOSEPH H. CHOATE
Edward S. Martin Has Made
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It gives an excellent picture of the man
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Vanities, Dreams and Avowals
Mark Jim Huncher's
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.1. --.I a nrnti-illtri memorial FCTViCC,
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By PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN
and of his many activities, net only ns
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works.
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of the most famous of the cases with
which Mr. Chentc was1 connected, In
cluding the Cesnela libel suit, the Pcty-John-Perter
cese, the Laldlaw suit
against Ilussc 1 Sage, and the argument
en the constitutionality of the Income
tax law. And extracts from many 01
Mr. Chentc s famous occasional ad
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are his address at Harvard university
when Governer Butler attended the
commencement exercises nnd his fnmeus
speech te the Society of the Friendly
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Irishmen In America go back te Ireland.
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New Yerk did business sixty years age,
when Mr. Cheatc first began te prac
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earned by pleading the case of two ' er er
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Mr. Evarts told him thnt his share
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As Mr. Uhentc was nwc in later years
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Yesterday's Mystery Solution
THESB were the fourteen points et
.e.w..,Hu,. rr-ndenlnir by which Har
vey Hunt pointed out the murderers of
Mounted ratrelman Kret in the cass
of "Scorched Wires."
First. Kreb's body found at opposite
end of the city from bent probably
taken there In automobile.
Second. Herse found beyond his
heat, returning te It-Encounter took
place beyond beat. Aute naturally
reuld have passed en way south before
Ilyan turnc.l Inte read and met horse.
Third. Deuble wire hlndlnc Kreb y
feet hn.l Insulntlen scorched at one end
nnd copper slightly mcltrd-Uscd te Ig
nite explosive or fulminating enp.
Fourth. Seap en this wire Frem
bends of n snfe-brcaker, who used It te
step up cracks.
Fifth. Skillful bnndairfng Some Seme
'...ilv with medical knowledge.
Sixth. Tern skirt as bandage A
vnman, probably a nurse.
Seventh. Hands bound with Insu
lated wire showing exposure te weather
ut one end. nnd senked with grcnHO in
SII0t3Wlre te rear lamp en automo
bile Net likely te be thought of ex
cunt bv one familiar with the car and
Its equipment, in short ItB regular
Eighth. Wound In chest wns hnnd
aged Krebs didn't die at once. Seme
attempt mnde te save Mm.
Ninth. iicnii eniiuun "' """
eag Captors might be discovered with
i.t.v. -...I nirumtnnces were such that
this would net be suspicious unless the
man could tnlk. Only place In which
'uiured man is expected te be found Is
lu ambulance.
Tenth. Particles of grey wool en
front of uniform body covered with
Mnnkct. Ulnnkcts arc carried In am
bulances. Kleventh. Why would a safe-hrcalt-er
tnke a woman with Min?-l'eii'
because she supplied the Information
regarding the "crib" te be "cracked.
Hn'd leave her out of It If he could.
Twelfth. Where would she get such
Information? Assuming that she wns
a nurse, she might get It from a patient.
Thirteenth. There wns no robbery
reported Hcnee none had yet been
illhcnvcred. The explanation of this
ind nuppert of the preceding nsumptlen
mild he furnished In the case of a pa
'lent still In the hospital, whose house
was closed up while he or she wns there.
Fourteenth. This house should he
oeked for somewhere north of the mur
lered patrolman's heat.
Acting en Harvey Hunt's advice,
Detective Krebs made the rounds of the
hospitals and found a man who lived
uirth of his brother's beat. Investiga
tion proved that his house had been
nbbed. lie had spoken te the nurse of
valuables in his safe ever which he was
Worried. .....
Mounted Patrolman Krebs had seen
Mm ambulance nass toward the north,
"lie actions of tlie driver and the nurse
made hi in suspicious and he followed,
''hey distanced him. Later he enceun-
eiell them coming back nnd stepped
them. The chauffeur shot him. hear
ng discovery through him, and unahlr
te agree en what dlspesnt te make et
lm, the)' trussed him up as described,
nter, when they found he liti'l die'
n wound, they dreve te the ether end
if the city nnd left the body In a let.
The ambulance was supposed te be
'a the repair shop. The chauffeur hnd
'alsely represented It ns being out of
iidcr.
XII
Can you solve this mystery
of-
The Invisible Thief
"It's quite plain that the securities
were taken some time before I came
lack from dinner at 8 o'clock," said
Uehert Faulk. ,
"I want veu tVlt anvbedr who knw
I they were tuckjJrnutr these ether
Under thn gencrnt title, "Steeple
Jflck," James Gibbens Huncker, of
Philadelphia, Paris and the world, as
well as the seven nrts. gives a chronicle,
sometimes nnnnllstlc and sometimes im
pressionistic, of his long career as a
journalist, critic nnd Interpreter. Many
of the chapters appeared in the Phila
delphia Press a couple of years age. at
flip time when Mr. Huneltcr craced It
with his perambulating criticisms of
musical affairs Here, mnKing tne great
anerlflrn nf enmlriff ever from New Yerk
te cover the most Important events of
this city. . .
The writer of this autobiography has
known many men nnd been much te
nnrnn of the'm nnd something te many
of them. Nowadays with the ranks of
criticism swollen by the Menkens,
Nathans, Van Vcchtcns. nnd ether
modernists who arc for anything
provided thnt it is new or strange or
unusual, and especially If it counters en
or contravenes what thev call convene
tlennl mernllty (by which they mean
Puritanism), the fact frequently Is lest
sight of thnt Mr. Huneker, together
with the late Pcrrlval Pellnrd, and even
mere, peslbly, than that coloratura
stylist was the great pioneer in in
troducing te the American public a
large number of creative artists whose
prestige and Influence nre today ac
cented ns tmrt of the possession of con
temporary culture. Mr. Huneker tooted
fifes, banged drums and waved banners
for many of them nt a time when they
were gcnernlly damned either as im
moral or inartistic. That's one great
and fine intellectual capacity of his
catholicity and tolerance. Alse he has
feeling and understanding. In this book
we get at first hand the record of his
long sweeps of the horizon from his
elevated, and in a sense exalted, pest of
a steeplejack. His questlngs and ad
vcnturlngs Inte the world of art make
a fascinating, because sympathetic and
valid, esthetic and emotional auto
biography. The book Is very individual in its
viewpoints nnd its style. Often it is
couched In the staccato and occasion
ally syncopated diction that marks
ether Huneker books. There arc florid
passages and grace notes and Italian
ate decorations In the score verbal
arias of traditional opera type and
there are many very beautiful sections
in which the themes have real substance
nnd are dovclened In n snlrlt that is fit
ting and nuthentic. The Celtic tempera
ment of the man shines out its mngic
of words, Its wistful melancholy, its
wit, and yet there is a countervailing
through what may quite properly be
called the American tempernment, which
knows what o'clock It Is, nnd Is common-sensible
almost te the point of
practicality. It's all very engaging,
this book, with its intriguing blend of
emotionalism and enthusiasm, acuity
and ardency, insight and vision.
ETnErr.njACK. By Jm Olhbenn Hune
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The memoirs of the Inte Lord Itcdc!
dale, which attracted wide attention '
hcn they were first published in Eng
land, will 1ms found by American read'
ers te deserve their popularity, nor
thnt the book is nvnllablc for them "'
here.
t n-.l Y1-.1 1-1- -A. 1 f A. th,
jru jiuiiuHuuii; wns nunciicu iu "if,
British foreign office for forty year.
nnd served in Chinn, Japan nnd Russia' f
He had a wide acqualntnncc with pub-" j
lie men at home and In 'the countries')
where he wns en duty. The late Klnf i
Kdward wns nn intimate friend. He i
lived neighbor te the Carlylcs In 1
Chcyne Walk. He knew Disraeli nnd
Sir Ilirhard Ilurten. He was a kins- i
man of the MItferd who wrote the ftt- '
meus history of Greece. And he tr
n mnn of letters, a musician and a
sportsman. Above most men, he had
the experience nnd acquaintance which
mr.ke the ,materlnl for Illuminating
mrmnlra nml hn lin.l tl.A llt..Mf ..1.11..
: ' - "" vm; iiiiihij mm..- ..
Ity te like this material In such a wajr 1
ns te raaKe It interesting. Ills chap
ter en Ilencensfleld gives ns geed a
picture of the mnn ns Is contained In
the six-volume life which has just bea .
completed. Ills estimnte of King Ed
ward is probably much nearer te that
which history will ultimately fix upon
than the estimate by Sir Sydney Lee
in the Dictionary of Nntlonel Biogra
phy. Believers in Article X of the
Lmgue of Nations cevennnt will find
in his story of the diplomatic prelimi
naries te the seizure of Schlrswig Schlrswig
Helstcln from Denmark by Prussia
mero ammunition for their guns than'"
can be found in the same space nnjr.
where else.
He is one of the few men who bad
the privilege of rending Sir Itlchard
Burten's "Scented Garden" in the"!
manuscript which Lady Burten pru
dishly burned in order te prevent Its,
punucatien, ana liurten allowed him I
te read the first chapters of his trana-1"
latlen of the "Arnbinn Nights" whlle
he was at work en that monumental, J
task. The story of all these things ap-
pears In the book.
MKMOlIt!? B Iird Rnltaililr. O. C. V. a.
K. C. I). With two- photogravure, pUlAa
nnd sixteen Illustration, Twe volume.
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papers in my desk drawer could have
walked in and taken them ; but what I
can't understand Is hew anybody could
have known they were there."
Wasn't; your office deer locked?"
asked Harvey Hunt, the criminal In
vestigator, "I thought se, Lut it wasn't," ex
plained Faulk. "Miss Dougherty must
have thrown the latch en before she left
and thnt was before I even knew I
wns going te get the securities, mind
and when I went out I must have
thrown the latch off, thinking I wns
throwing it en. I remember Mint I did
net bother te try the knob when I
closed the deer behind me."
Harvey Hunt glanced out the office
window. There wns only a blnnk wall
en the ether side of the light well.
"Are you sure nobody was In here
after you brought back the securities?"
he questioned.
"Net a soul except Jim Travis."
Faulk replied. "He might have seen
the papers as I slipped them Inte the
drawer, hut why. It's simply ridicu
lous te suspect a mnn like Travis."
"Nevertheless," said Hunt, "either
Travis or some ether person who knew
Just where they were took them. Let me
examine that desk."
Harvey Hunt seated himself in
Faulk's chair nnd let his eyes ream ever
the expanse of glass -covered iial- ('
fully removing the few papers, he took
a little box of ponder from his peeket
and dusted it ever the glass surface
evenly.
Then he blew nwnv nil thi nmr,w
thnt did net ndhere te the surface.
"Helle," he exclaimed. "This Is
mere premising thnn I thought. I was
afraid there would be se munv finger
prints en this glass fhat their very
number would defeat us. Hut this
smear en the corner here leeks mere
premising than a flimer print. Your
thief must have rested his hand here."
Hunt bent ever the desk, his keen
eves searching the falntlv-indicated
lines where something, probably n
cloth, hnd been rubbed ever the rIess.
Suddenly he leaned forward until his
nose almost touched It, nnd sniffed.
When he strnightened up there wn. sat
isfaction in l.is glnuce, and something
of amuscmint.
"As a matter of fact you dhl have
another visitor besides Trails," he
saw, even u you turn t remember him
a mnn who comes in here te see veu
every day, I Imagine, though I can't
exactly Dinme )ou ter ovrleoklng him
He'll probably be in this afternoon
again. I'll come back nnd wait for
Mm with you about il e clock. It wns
.1 o'clock you came in yesterday with
the securities, wasn't It?"
"Yes but but " spluttered
Faulk.
"Ne," Hunt laughed, "I won't ex
plain new I'd rnther save It for a
surprise. It'll be a surprise te both of
you."
Can em tell what odor it tea) en the
ileik that told llarvev Hunt xrhat kind
of n t'fjfifer Faulk had, a viiiter he
couldn't remember t
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