to live in Paris, where she studied under Marchesi. Her favorite recreation is dancing; after that she delights in walking, riding and driving-anything to get into the sunshine. Her fad is autographs. So far, Madame Melba has only two grievances against this country, her knowledge of which is limited to New York and Philadelphia-hot houses and New York weather. The prima donna must endure both. People won't keep their houses at a healthy temperature, and Nature does as she pleases with the weather.

Mrs. Langtry has been writing a book, it is said, for several years. According to some reports it is a novel; according to others, it is autobiographical. Whatever it may be, financial success is a foregone conclusion. The majority of people buy books for their notoriety, not their literature. If Mrs. Langtry writes all she knows about whom she knows, there will be food for gossip until 1900.

Dr. David H. Greer of New York wants pawn-shops opened for the benefit of the poor. In Germany and France such shops are controlled by the government. Dr. Greer hopes to start his shop very soon in the mission shop supported by his church and which owes its existence to Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The pawn-shop will be in charge of an experienced man.

Hon. Josiah Quincy has been reëlected chairman of the Massachusetts National Democratic Committee. Mr. Quincy's office will be no sinecure. The Democracy of the old Bay State is very low spirited and needs a deal of encouragement.

And now Nova Scotia goes in for woman suffrage. It is in the air and may eventually get into our Capitol, provided fresh air ever penetrates as far as the houses of Congress.

Sandow, the strongest man in the world, is to have a gymnasium built for him in New York City by rich men, one of whom is Mr. John D. Rockefeller. What with cultivating the brains of Chicago and the muscle of New York, Mr. Rockefeller may be called a man of extreme views. He certainly has made more than both ends meet.

Mrs. Richard M. Hunt is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Slater. When will Congress be sufficiently appreciative to purchase from Mrs. Hunt the companion portraits of Sumner and Lincoln, painted by her gifted husband in the zenith of his power? They should hang in the new Library Building.

Mrs. Julian James receives her friends every Saturday night during this month. It is not strange that a charm

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A blessing has descended upon the Capital in the guise of a Young Women's Christian Home, that owes its being to the generosity of Miss Bessie Kibbey. This admirable citizen has given her fine old home, 311 C Street, to a noble organization that friendless girls may find shelter and protection. There is accommodation in the new home for twenty-five girls. At the house-warming last Tuesday the rooms were thronged with visitors who evinced more than passing interest in a sorely needed institution, the aim of which is to help girls to help themselves. Whoever has money to spend can safely bestow it in this direction. The officers of the organization are Mrs. W. B. Gurley, president; Miss S. A. Lipscomb and Mrs. D. W. Brown, vice-presidents; Mrs. W. H. Hoeke, recording and corresponding secretary; Mrs. W. W. Herron, treasurer; building-fund treasurer, Mr. Charles S. Bradley; attending physician, Dr. Ida Heiberger. The board of trustees include Mrs. J. W. Childs, Hon. Thomas P. Morgan, Miss S. A. Lipscomb, Mrs. D. Wolfe Brown, Miss Anna A. Shellabarger, Mrs. William B. Gurley, Mrs. W. W. Herron, Mrs. G. C. Hazelton, Mrs. Charles Walcott, Mrs. Strong, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. General Eaton, Miss Temple, Miss Tappan, Miss Lovett, Miss Florence Brown, Mrs. Richard Paise, Miss Trescot and Miss Lennan.

The Mexican Legation is always thronged at the receptions given on Tuesdays by Madame Romero.

General T. T. Crittenden, our Consul General to Mexico, continues his crusade in favor of free trade with our neighbor. In a recent private letter he writes: "Mexico is well governed by progressive, broad-minded men. We should do everything possible to promote commercial unity." Of course we should. We ought to have preceded Germany and England instead of following at the eleventh hour.

Bostonians are making pilgrimages to the new Public Library to inspect the model for the new music hall which is to be located on the corner of Huntington Avenue and Westchester Park. The model is in plaster and is shown from the interior. The visitor mounts a short flight of steps and thus stands as if he had come up through a hole in the floor. The interior is purely Greek, and is very like that of the Music Hall at the Exposition, which was the work of the same architects, McKim, Mead & White. In this design there are no balconies or galleries, but it is arranged as an amphitheatre. The stage is spacious and stately; all around are niches in which statues are placed-one at the back of the stage in the centre and others around the entire circumference of the hall. The design is purely classic, and its convenience and comfort are as marked as its beauty. The only adverse criticism-and that point is well taken-is that the line of the arch over the stage, which has a dome above for acoustic purposes, is not in harmony with the rest of the interior. This fault may be easily remedied. OLLA.

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MY STUDY AND MY BOOKS.

[N beginning the later adventures of "David Balfour," Mr. Stevenson has the kindness to give the reader a brief summary of the earlier tale, "Kidnapped," to which the present book is a sequel. Few authors could resist the temptation to marry off a hero in a second volume when this could not be successfully accomplished in the earlier pages. Mr. Stevenson has succeeded in making an interesting denouement, although the new adventures of Mr. Balfour seem a little harder to believe than did those of his boyhood.

A new phase of the present fashion of marrying American girls to foreign noblemen is made the foundation of the plot of "A Coign of Vantage," by John Seymour Ward. The friends of a young Kentucky girl lay wagers to the extent of several thousand dollars that she will return from a trip abroad engaged to an English lord. Her father takes every bet, and the girl stands by him, even to the point of refusing an Anglomaniac masquerading as the real article, although she is in love with the man. In the end, of course, the pretender loses his bet, which he, in his turn, has made with a bona fide lord, that he will woo and win her in his fictitious capacity, and when the mask is off the girl accepts the American, while her father wins money enough to pay all the family's expenses abroad and more besides.

"Lyndell Sherburne" gives Amanda M. Douglas's idea of the way in which a young girl, who unexpectedly finds herself an heiress, should conquer the hearts of the unloving relatives who are unwillingly thrown in with the fortune. The book is a sequel to "Sherburne House," and for the lack of a simple statement of facts at the beginning, the author has been obliged to work a great deal of the original book over into these pages. The story ends a little doubtfully with the hero suffering from spinal trouble, and both the hero and the heroine just beginning to dream of love. Possibly Mrs. Douglas contemplates a third volume in which the reader's mind will be finally set at rest.

The hero of Lillie Devereux Blake's "A Daring Experiment" is a young doctor who thinks he has discovered a road to insensibility to pain combined with mental consciousness. Having tried his experiments on dumb animals to his own satisfaction, if not to theirs, he next tries to find a human being "young and perfectly healthy, having never used any stimulants, knowing nothing of tobacco or of whisky, entirely moral and of a perfectly regular life." He finally tries it on a young girl, but is unable to test his theory fully, because of the interference of his patient's friends. There are other stories which go with this one to make up the book.

"Prisoners of the Earth" is the first and best of a collection of short stories from the pen of H. D. Lowry. "A Hillside Parish" is a longer and more pretentious work, devoted to pictures of country people and country living. The scene is laid in central New York, and

DAVID BAI FOUR. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Scribner's.

A COIGN OF VANTAGE. By John Seymour Wood. Dodd, Mead & Co.
LYNDELL SHERBURNE. By Amanda M. Douglas. Dodd, Mead & Co.
A DARING EXPERIMENT. By Lillie Devereux Blake. Lovell, Coryell & Co.
PRISONERS OF THE EARTH. By H. D. Lowry. Dodd, Mead & Co.
A HILLSIDE PARISH. By S. Bayard Dod. Dodd, Mead & Co.
WHAT NECESSITY KNOWs. By L. Dougal, Longmans, Green & Co.
CAN THIS BE LOVE? By Mrs. Parr. Longmans, Green & Co.

A DAUGHTER OF THIS WORLD. By Fletcher Battershall. Dodd, Mead & Co.
THE ROSE OF LOVE. By the author of "Muriel Howe." Dodd, Mead & Co.
ASHES OF ROSES. By Louise Knight Whately. Dodd, Mead & Co.

IN DWELLINGS OF SILENCE.

By Walker Kennedy. Dodd, Mead & Co.

THE TRAGEDY OF WILD RIVER VALLEY. By Martha Finley. Dodd, Mead & Co.
TOM SYLVESTER. By T. R. Sullivan. Scribner's.
BARABBAS. By Marie Corelli. Lippincott.

ONLY A GUARDROOM DOG. By Edith E. Cuttrell. Cassell Co.

the book opens with the selection from numerous competing candidates of a pastor who should fittingly fill the vacant place of the minister who had died after fifty years of service. The choice of the parish falls upon a young and unmarried man. It requires all the remaining chapters to enable the young minister to choose a wife.

In "What Necessity Knows" Mr. Dougall introduces an interesting episode of 1843, when the Millerites in various parts of North America ascended hills and housetops in sure expectation of the Second Advent, afterward returning to patiently endure the mirth of scoffing neighbors and to earn again homes to replace those which they had given away. The scene of the story is laid in the Province of Quebec, but deals with immigrants rather than with Canadians proper.

Heiresses who were not looking for good fortune seem astonishingly plenty in fiction. astonishingly plenty in fiction. Mrs. Parr has created one who becomes engaged to her guardian's prig of a son because the good lady wishes it, and the girl really admires the only man she has been permitted to meet. During the engagement, however, she meets another man and asks herself if the feeling which she has for her fiancée, "Can This Be Love?" She decides it cannot and marries the other man.

The troubles of a woman who falls in love with the first man she meets, and who is determined that he shall reciprocate at some time, whether it be after she has fallen out or not, are freshly told in "A Daughter of This World" by Fletcher Battershall. To accomplish her purpose the heroine gives her property into the hands of an unscrupulous mystic priest who commits suicide just before she finally renounces the lover who has been brought to her feet.

Perhaps it is because they belong to the same series and come from the same publishers that "The Rose of Love" and "Ashes of Roses" seem to belong together. The first book unites two patient, but sorely-tried, lovers in the last paragraph under bridal wreaths; the other treats of withered loves and withered roses. Another romance belonging to the same prettily bound series is "In the Dwellings of Silence," the scenes of which are laid in Russia.

Two lynchings and several plain shootings go to make up"The Tragedy of Wild River Valley." Miss Finley's villains are so clever in their special lines that she is only able to rid the world of them by making them shoot unoffending citizens in broad light in the hearing of a maddened populace, from whom there is no place to hide.

A medium good boy with a villain for a father and three saints serving in the capacity of mother, brother and sister is portrayed in T. R. Sullivan's "Tom Sylvester." The grown-up boy ends by marrying the playmate of his boyhood in spite of a consuming love for the woman who finally marries his elder brother.