BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE LITERARY DIGEST is in receipt of the following books:

"A Book of Old English Love Songs." (Macmillan Company, $1.25.)

"The Hundred Days." Max Pemberton. (D. Appleton & Co., $1.50)

"Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer."Gen. C. Moxley Sorrel. (Neale Publishing Company.) "Love's Way in Dixie." Katharine Hopkins Chapman. (Neale Publishing Company, $1.25.) Paintings of the Louvre."-Dr. Arthur Mahler. (Doubleday, Page & Co., $2 net.)

"The Wild Irishman."-T. W. H. Crosland. (D. Appleton & Co., $1.50.)

"The Judgment of Paris."- Peter Fandel. (Richard Badger, $1.)

"A Southern Girl in '61."- Mrs. D. Giraud Wright. (Doubleday, Page & Co., $2.75.)

"The Heart of a Girl."-Ruth Kimball Gardiner. (A. S. Barnes & Co, $1.50.)

'Sporting Sketches."-Edwyn Sandys. (Macmillan Company, $1.75.)

Problems of Philosophy." - James H. Hyslop, LL.D. (Macmillan Company, $5 net.)

"Life of St. Patrick."-J. B. Bury. (Macmillan Company, $3.25.)

"The Colonel's Dream."-Charles W. Chestnutt. (Doubleday, Page & Co., $1.50.)

"Love Alone is Lord."-F. Frankfort Moore. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, $1.50.)

"Mrs. Alderman Casey."-Irene Stoddard Capwell. (R. F. Fenno & Co.)

"The Vortex."-Thomas McKean. (J. B. Lippincott Company, $1.50.)

"Montaigne."- Edward Dowden. (J. B. Lippincott Company, $1.50 net.)

"The Bloom of Girlhood."-Pauline Page. (The Vir Publishing Company, $0.60.)

"Law and Opinion in England." A. V. Dicey. (Macmillan Company, $3.)

"Knock at a Venture."-Eden Phillpotts. (Macmillan Company, $1.50.)

"For Each Day a Prayer."-Elizabeth H. Davis. (Dodge Publishing Company.)

"A Struggle for Life."-John Langtry. (Published by author, Toronto.)

"Life More Abundant."-Henry Wood. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, $1.30.)

[The following poem is one of ten awarded a money prize in the recently concluded literary contest conducted by The Metropolitan Magazine.]

One day I wandered out upon the road
That

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Seeking companions in the restless throng
That staggered on beneath its varied load.
I bore no burden save a rimester's pack
That lay as light as wings upon my back;
My goal was life, my only task to sing
And speed the sun around the Zodiac.
I hailed a haggard fellow with a pile
Of printed stuff-the world's ephemeral file,
Calling, "Come, listen to a troubadour !"
He said, "I may have time-after a while."

There passed another in a gorgeous dress,
Laden with gems but pale with weariness.

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"Pause, friend," I said, "and listen to the wind.". "Pause!" he replied, "and lose all I possess?" Then came a man with bricks upon his head, Pursuing blindly his elusive bread.

I called, "Come, listen to a song of life!" "What is a song? And what is life?" he said.

I cried, "What seek ye all-what wondrous thingThat ye have souls neither to laugh nor sing,

Nor hearts to love, nor time to think or dream?' They said, "We do not know: we serve the king." "Who is the king to whom your lives are sold? Whence came his power?" I questioned young and old,

'Seeking for knowledge; and I only heard: "The king is nameless; but his power is gold."

I cried, "Your king is mad! Why, if he knew

The difference between the false and true,

Between life's kernel and its worthless chaff,Would he not find some nobler use for you?"

They paused, they stared, they sighed; then one by

one

Resumed the weary race they had begun.

And I? I walked beside them down the road But went on singing till the day was done!

The Peace of Portsmouth.

BY MINNA IRVING.

Where on the shrines of old Japan

The shadows softly fall,

Where pious Russians kneel before
The icons on the wall,

Like incense rare upon the air

Ten million prayers arise, To bless the land of liberty

And laud it to the skies.

The scourge of blood and flame has passed,
The storm of war is done;

Peace furls the pennon of the cross,

The banner of the sun.

The gods of trade will now rebuild
Port Arthur's battered crags,

While commerce mends with threads of gold
The tattered battle-flags.

-Two stanzas from a poem in Leslie's Weekly.

Summer's End.

BY ZONA GALE.

A sheaf of broom-flowers. yellow at the heart,
Drugged with the sun and listless with the dew,
The silence of the ordered petal edge
With flame shot through.

A sheaf of broom-flowers, amber with the light,
Green with the jade of leaf-work, shadows dull:
Pale silver silk sown with thin silver veins,
O-wonderful!

A sheaf of broom-flowers, lipped with line of brown, Because the urge of death is in the hours;

O dawn in dust! O hand that can not close

Upon the flowers!

-From Everybody's Magazine.

The Kingdom of the Meek.

BY PRISCILLA LEONARD.

Kings choose their soldiers from the strong and sound
And hurl them forth to battle at command.
Across the centuries, o'er sea and land,
Age after age, the shouts of war resound;
Yet, at the end, the whole wide world around,
Each empty empire, once so proudly planned,
Melts through Time's fingers like the dropping sand.
But once a King-despised, forsaken, crowned
Only with thorns-chose in the face of loss

Earth's poor, her weak, her outcast, gave them love,
And sent them forth to conquer in his name
The world that crucified him, and proclaim
His empire. Lo! pride's vanished thrones above,
Behold the enduring banner of the Cross!

-From The Outlook.

Our "Eyes and Ears" in Venezuela.-William James Calhoun, who has been sent to Venezuela by President Roosevelt to make an examination of the condition of affairs in Venezuela and to report the facts to him, so that the United States may be able to determine what course to adopt toward the South American diplomatic storm center, was a chum and political adviser of President McKinley. This is the second time that Mr. Calhoun has been chosen to act as the "eyes and ears" of this country. Mr. Calhoun, says a writer in the New York Herald, was born in Pittsburg fifty-seven years ago. He went to school in Poland, O., and it was in that State that he became acquainted with the McKinley family and grew to be a boyish chum of the late President. In the troubled months preceding the war with Spain, President McKinley turned for counsel and advice to the friend of his boyhood. At a time when public excitement was wildly inflamed by the terrible sufferings of the patriot population of Cuba under the Spanish yoke, and when the demand for war was gathering strength day by day, he sent Mr. Calhoun into Cuba to bring back the truth. To quote further from The Herald's article:

"There was an especially critical situation when the President made his request of Mr. Calhoun on April 30, 1897. Dr. Ricardo Ruiz, a naturalized American citizen, had been thrown into prison by the Spanish authorities on a charge of having participated in the revolution, and had died or been killed there before he was brought to trial. The treaty between Spain and the United States relating to the detention of prisoners had been violated, and there was a strong suspicion that Dr. Ruiz had been murdered in his cell by his jailers. His widow appeared for revenge, and there was an overwhelming demand for reparation.

"Public indignation was aroused to fever heat by accounts of his sufferings that were sent to this country, and tremendous pressure was brought upon President McKinley to act. Before coming to a decision he determined to send Mr. Calhoun to Havana. He asked him not only to examine into the merits of the Ruiz case, but also to collect all possible definite information concerning the progress of the revolution, so that the

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