EASTERN RUGS FOR GIFTS In the above design can be seen the attempt of the weaver to depict in wool an idea of the sports characteristic of the early periods of the East. In the upper field is shown the huntsman, with falcons, while below two fishermen, with rude nets, are engaged in fishing a stream which flows to a pool beneath. It is but one of a great number and variety of unusual Rugs in our stock, which serve as gifts of lasting interest and pleasure. W. & J. SLOANE Direct Importers of Eastern Rugs Interior Decorators Floor Coverings and Fabrics Furniture Makers FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-SEVENTH STREET NEW YORK WASHINGTON, D. C. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. "Τ HIS volume," says John Galsworthy in his preface to "A Sheaf," "is but a garnering of noncreative writings, mostly pleas of some sort or other-wild oats of a novelist, which the writer has been asked to bind up. He cannot say that he had any wanton pleasure in sowing any of them; and, lest there be others of the same opinion as the anonymous gentleman who thus joyously addressed him last July:-'But there I suppose you are getting a bit out of it. Men of your calibre will do any thing for filthy lucre you old and cunning reptile!'-he mentions that he has not, personally, profited a penny by anything in this volume, and that the future proceeds therefrom will be given to St. Dunstan's and the National Institute for the Blind, London." "A Sheaf" is a collection of sketches and essays similar to "A Motley," "The Inn of Tranquillity," etc. F RANK J. WILSTACH, who was Mr. ness manager for several years, was accused of collaborating with him in the writing of those chapters from Mr. Sothern's "The Melancholy Tale of 'Me"" which appeared in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. The absurdity of the idea so amused Mr. Wilstach that he told Mr. Sothern about it. "Fine!" he exclaimed. "If any one objects to what I have written I'll say you did it, and that'll let me out." The book, whose sub-title is "My Remembrances," was recently published. B RANDER MATTHEWS "deviates," as he lightly puts it, "into the by-paths of stage history" in his "Book About the Theater." He "discusses the minor arts of the dancer and the acrobat, chatters about the conjuror and the negro minstrel, considers the principles of pantomime and the development of scene-painting, etc." In his letter to Augustus Thomas which prefaces this volume he goes on to explain "that these excursions into the purlieus of the playhouse began long, long ago. I gave a Punch and Judy show before I was sixteen; I performed experiments in magic, I blacked up as Sambo, I whitened myself as Clown, I played the lowcomedy part in a farce, and I attempted the flying trapeze before I was twenty." 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Part of this was used in his articles; the rest is here translated for the first time. of our five portraits is sketched. The author then proceeds to disentangle some of the many-colored threads in the art and thought of Anatole France. In Pierre Loti he describes a latter-day Chateaubriand, a supreme master of musical prose, a word-painter, a lyric poet full of yearning and despair. With Paul Bourget we encounter the doctrine of tradition as the basis of morality; in Maurice Barres the cognate doctrine of nationalism in politics and culture; and we trace with amused sympathy the evolution which has turned these spicy and fashionable writers into fathers of the church and the country. Then comes an attempt to appraise the Promethean half-failure of Romain Rolland in "Jean Christophe.' The conclusion ventures to forecast some of the effects of the present war on the literature of France. A COMPLETE edition of the novels and stories of Richard Harding Davis has just been published. It is called the Crossroads Edition, after the name of Mr. Davis's place in Westchester County, and into it are brought together for the first time all that succession of stories, from "Gallegher" of nearly thirty years ago to those of the present war, as well as novels and longer stories-"Soldiers of Fortune," "Captain Macklin,' "Princess Aline," "The King's Jackal," and "The White Mice." The edition is sold by the subscription method. It was prepared according to plans often discussed with Mr. Davis and under conditions which make it peculiarly commemorative of the personal and popular affection in which he was held. His brother and executor has given invaluable aid in its preparation, and to the different volumes have been prefixed appreciations and brief reminiscences-tributes which perhaps no other of the younger American writers could have commanded. The volumes have been manufactured with the intention of making a clear, beautiful, and attractive library edition worthy of its definitive and lasting character. |