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NCE on a
time W. L.
Alden be
came fiimoiiB In
virtue of certain
humorous uontrl
butloim to the
New York Times,
riicy had an
agreeable play of
wit, together with
a certain kindli
ness of humor
that mado them
delightful read
ing. Today Mr. Alden exhibits no de
cline, albeit muny years have passed
since first his gifts became known. In
His latest cfTort, "Drewltt' Dream",
issued by the Appletons, there Is the
same pungent comprehension of hu
man nature, combined with the same
cherry optimism as of yore. It Is not
much of a novel, us novels go, and yet
you will read It and- like It.
There isn't much to the thread of the
ntory; you might almost call It a ravel
ing. A young Englishman, attracted
by curiosity to the scene of an up
proachlng tight between the Greek and
Turkish armies, Is caught In u punle of
Beared fugitives and swept along- while
a Turkish detachment follows In pur
suit. A beautiful young woman, using
perfect English, Is a companion victim
In the mad stampede and ho rescues
her. They fall In love, or he Imagines
they do, and he dreams of a desperate
tight In which ho and she alone defy
for a time the entire Turkish army
only to fall together In a grand climax
of resistance. The next thing he knows
ho is lying In a hospital, convalescent
from wounds and a fever, and the lady
of his dreams Is non est Inventus. As
soon as he gets well enough he starts
out to look for her, and the story tells
the Incidents and Issue of his search.
We may as well say without further
delay that he finds her In the last
chapter, and while part of his pre
sumed acquaintance with her in Greece
was the working of brain fever, he
managed before he got through with
the case to give her his name.
But all this is incidental. In the
course of Drewitt's travels he meets
an American named Gallegher. Gal
legher is Mr. Alden's piece do resist
ance: a shrewd and kindly son of the
sod who had evoluted into that distinc
tively American product, a political
boss; made a million or two in ways
which we shall see, and was flounder
ing around in Europe with a steam
yacht, all the luxuries of the season
and nobody congenial with whom to
share them. Gallegher picks Drewltt
up and helps him find the maiden of
his dream. They get shipwrecked to
gether and huve a variety of other ex
periences far out of the ordinary, but
never does Gallegher lose his equanim
ity or ready adaptability to chang
ing circumstance. Ho Is a born genius
for producing results and some of his
sayings are as droll nn his doings.
For example, when Gallegher llrst
met Drewltt It was In the hospital, an
Institution which Gallegher financed
and took secret pride In he frankly
told why he was In Europe:
"Tlipy told mi- that Ori-ecc v:.u the liUce
where culture w.i? Imcntcd, and I Mid, tli.it'n
Ihf place for me. You nee l'e ttccn u lurd
workliiK man all my life, nnd when I made my
ille I wild to in.vv?lf: 'Yoii'ic nccr had 110
adiantagca to .pc.ik of, and what 3011 want In
culture.' So 1 started In to net It, though 1
don't iiiiiul saying that 1 hnicn't collared much
of It jet."
At this point Drewltt inquired what
Gulleglier's business hud been, and this
was the reply:
"Politic?, sir! t w.11 11 liMdltia; politic Inn In
the Mate ot lowu for thirty )cam. Did "oil
cur hear of S,itlut City? Well, 1 wax the ho."
of th.it illy for ten c.u.i, and having 111 ide u
(01 tunc 1 thought I ought to retlte from limi
ne!" and Hie like ,1 mlllloiulie ought to llir."
"Polltlci n'ein to lip ptofltahlc III jour iniiii"
try," uggcdtcd Urcwitt.
"So they aie, sir, if joti know how to look
after jour own Intel cits, and don't go in for
mere honor and glory. I norkcil hard and no
man can tuy a Moid against my honesty. I
made my money In ;i perfectly straight w.i.v,
Xohody eer d.ned otlcr mc a bribe, ami r.o
liody crr caught 1110 in a ciooUed transaction
for mj' own benefit. Hut, jou fee, in my posi
tion I natiually had the cuillct Intoiui.itloii
about nnj" Intended proceeding of tin: common
countll, let alone the fait that their proceed
ings were generally dictated by me. Come,,
quentlj', when the counill Minted in to imprjio
any particular part of the city 1 knew it be
forehand, and bought up the most eligible leal
estate and held it for a rise. No man could find
fault with that, ami the fact that I gae up
politics just an soon as f had made a foitimc
.hows that I wasn't n politician for any am
bitious or (elfish purpose."
Later Drewltt told Gallegher of his
dream.
"Dreams' interest me tome," said the million
aire. "I dteamed one night that lite common
council of SalhHt City were going to build a
market at the junction of Twentj'-flrst street
and Washington aicniii'. The nest morning I
tent a bill to that effect to the council, and
bought optlens on all the 1c.1l estate wheic the
market wan going to be. I realised $IJO,000 on
that one deal, nnd cicr since then I'c felt a
good respect for dreams."
Gallegher would buy votes, manipu
late ballot boxes and do some other
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things which In the Judgment of the
fine New England or Scotch Presby
terian conscience would not pass mus
ter: but ho had his good points. When
a boy lie once cheated on u fifteen-cent
trade. Twenty years later he remem
bered ho Incident, hunted up the vlc
tlme of his Juvenile sharp practice,
paid him the fifteen cents with com
pound interest to date and had the
Mttltifiictlon of lieaitng the victim, then
a minister, ronst him from the pulpit
the next Sunday morning. Drewltt
once said to Gallegher that he had al
ways supposed that American politics
and honohty were rather wide apart.
Here Is Gallegher's naive reply:
"That'll only Hiitlsh prejudice. Tic been 1111
naive politician nil my life, and I can my lint
I nciei illil a dishonest act. 'Honest .lohu (Sal
legher' was what they ifed to tall me. When
ever I bought a majoilty in the common uouniil,
or hired a man to do .1 political job, I ueier
gaie him ,1 line in writing or made a birgalu,
In the presence of witnesses, but there l-n't ,1
man liiing who inn My that I cur icfuscd to
pay what I piomiscd to pj-."
"Then briberj i-n't oonsldcied ubjcitloiuble
In Anieiica,",ald Drewltt.
".My rule," leplied Oalleghcr, "Used to pe
lieiei to buy a into unless it was nercssai.v.
If it's neciss'ii.v to do a thing It nitbt lie right
to do It. Xow, f consider that the only way
to 1 .111 j- on a government like ouis h bj the
judicious Use of inonej'. When I was boss of
fallust City the Itepubllcans who weic the ip-
position pally, were the woi.t gang of thieies
I ever knew; i.orsc, if you'll belicio it, thin
the .New Yoik Tammany ling. If they'd tot
Into oflitc they'd liaic lobbed the city light and
left. I kept thtm out by buying the neeosary
iotc, and T paid the common council to I'.is
meisuics that were tor the benefit of the city.
When men of property mw that I kept tho city
fiom being lolibid, and consequently kept domi
the taws, tliej' suppoitcd me tluoiigb thick and
thin. Jf I'd had jour notion about the dMion-
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city of buying loles, iclil eilule In Sallmt City
wouldn't be worth a iruaitcr today a? much
as it i. I lielleie I11 honest politics, and It'a
just in Inmost, and a flight tunic piacllcal, to
glie a councilman f.'iO for hh lote, than It i to
promise !ti tn r.n office In the custom house, I'll
go further, and s.iy It Is a gnml deal Imin'ster,
for the chinccn ale tlial when lie gel that "tTIca
he'll rle.il from the goieiniuent, wheicM, when
he gct.s hN SMI time's an end nf the ti.uvMC
lion, and thoic's no oppoittmllv 'for lit 111 to
dte.il."
On one oecanloii Urcwitt and Gul
lrghci' fell to talking about religion.
Said Gallegher, In his droll, frank way:
"All H'llglons uii the ciinc to me, I Used
In loiitrlbute Icgulailj to eei,i religion in Sal-tn-t
City, unci we hud 11 full Hue of lli.'iu. I
half built the .leuish xjnagogue, and 1 built
the whole of the lt.ipti-t chtiuh, besides- giim;
11 ihlme of bills to fhe Itonriu Catliolhs, ,lnt
before eierr election all the thiiMhes sceni"d
to be in liuanciil ilillh ulllcs, ami tliej- ti'oil to
101111' In me to help I hem oil, I 11-ul to trcit
them all alike, for if I'd .shown nnj faior to
one it would halo cost me the lolei ol all Hie
ies!."
Anyone rcnilltiH" onlj- these b.ire
fuoeil pusanisins would be ut a loss to
realize the secret of GulleRher's hold on
people; but it comes out In the course
of the story. He Is always equal to the
Fticeesslve emergencies; ho thoroughly
understands human nature; he Is sym
pathetic when tiiose about him arc In
misfortune, and he puts his sympathj'
Into substantial form; he doesn't worry
over things that can't be helped nor
fuss and fume when a smile and a joke
would do just as well; ho is witty, keen
and kindly; and altogether in delineat
ing hint Mr. Alden has explained better
than could be done by a shelf full of
books from the Reform club tho secret
of the power which such men and
Gallegher, though somewhat over
drawn, Is tin accurate type of the pre
valent municipal politician wield In
the public affairs of a. majority of
American communities. There Is no
particular moral to the storj". It is just
a picture of life in certain phases
drawn with humor, skill and sentiment:
and wrapped around enough of a plot
to carry It.
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AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
There aieAsuveral notable pictorial
features of peculiarly timely interest
anil also others of an artistic flavor In
the magazine number of the Outlook for
May. In the first class may be named
that describing District Attorney Jer
ome's ofliclal homo on the East Side of
New York, anil that on the king of
Spain, who this month becomes klnpr In
act as well as in name, by General
Stewart L. Woodford, formerly United
States minister to Spain. Art and mu
sic are respectively represented by an
article on the great Spanish painter
Sorolln, written by one of his pupils
and Illustrated by reproductions of
paintings and original sketches, and by'
a thoughtful critical and personal arti
cle on the work of Grieg by Daniel
Gregory Mason, Western Interests and
commercial interests are brought to the
front in Itay Stannard Baker's "Tho
Commerce of the Great Lakes," which
is as well informed as it is readable,
and is made picturesque by a dozen or
more illustrations relating to the ship
ping and commerce of the lakes. Arti
cles relating- to the spring season are,
John nut-roughs' little out-of-door essay
and poem called "A Spray of Arbutus,"
and J. H. JIcFarland's "A Story of
Some Maples," which Is illustrated
with many exceedingly beautiful photo
graphs of trees and their flowers, tak
en by the author.
The great feature of the May Mc
Clure's is tho first Instalment of Miss
Ellen M. Stone's account of her six
months' captivity nmong Macedonian
brigands. Miss Stone liua risen splen
didly to an opportunity that every
writer of -adventure true or fictitious
may well envy heii She has written a
rattling good story, which you will en
joy Whether or not you are Interested
In foreign missions. In tho most ap
proved serial style the first paper is
concluded with tho announcement by
the brigands to their captives, when
the first appeal for aid has fulled, that
they have but nine more days to llye.
Every Incident Is narrated with en
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stretching nfter sensation. The best
parts are those which relate the ter
rible (light across the mountains Im
mediately ufter the capture, and tho
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when the brigands disclosed their plot
to Miss Stone nnd Mrs. Tsllka. It is her
reticence concerning her own physical
sufferings ana mental anguish In all
this that lends power to the narrative.
Tho brigands themselves, ruthless ami
Indifferent to their captives' comfort as
they were, could not refrain from com
plimenting them on their pluck. Of
the remaining pupers, that on the birth
of Mrs, Tsllka's baby, apd the council
of tho brigands to determine. Its fate,
will be written by Mrs. Tsllku herself.
Edgar Fawcett's novelette in the
May Smart Set, entitled "The Vulgar
ians," Is u eapltul study of tho Intto
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,we should not know what to do with
out It.
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ight be capable of such mean-
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