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FROM THE LAND OF NEVER WAS. AT THE SIGN OF THE JACK-O'-LANTERN. By Myrtle Reed. 353 pp. Price, $1.50. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

HIS is a book cast in the oblique, like the skew-wise figures of Mr.

accept the burlesque, the exaggeration

of the foundation, the story stands a structure of straw that challenges no wind, and fits, in cozy, crow's-nest fashion, into the atmosphere of MakeBelieve. An impecunious, newly married pair, each marked with the unstable, artistic temperament, the husband unnecessarily irascible, the wife redundantly obstinate, fall heir to a fantastic old house, full of tumble-down furniture, and gruesome

family portraits. The heirs come to live in the old place, and, spelling backwards, little by little, learn the story of the freaky old uncle who made and gave the home. This still pervasive old man is assumed by the narrator to have changed from a romantic, high-bred Romeo to a flinthearted, grumbling Trinon, all because of persistent and long-continued visitations from his deceased wife's multitudinous and impossible relatives. These same harrowing hordes at once swoop down for the summer upon the long-suffering new owners. Each set of relatives has its own peculiar and exasperating characteristics, and the story is of their clashing vagaries, while the young, oblivious husband writes the novel that is to make him famous, and the young wife acts the slightly flirtatious Griselda.

MYRTLE REED.

It is quite a Frank Stockton situation, and the author "has fun" with her readers and her book folk, quite in the hiccuppy Stocktonian wayjerking mental chairs from under them, offering them cotton-stuffed mental doughnuts, and so on, in hilarious hops and halts. We have to forgive considerable over-accentuation in the types. The stage-driver, for instance, belongs to the b'gosh era that is gone, hayseed and jeans, to meet the green-whiskered Irishman in the land of Never-Was. But, granting that the queer people rounded up at the Jack-o'-Lantern have as slight relation to living characters as the grimacing figures on a deck of cards to a line of Sargeant portraits, we must yet declare that Myrtle Reed is possessed of a quick sense of humor, is a keen observer of life, and an exceptionally alert and alluring judge of human nature.

The Washington Post finds this novel "full of delicate fancy, spontaneous humor, and withal one of the quaintest and most readable of old-fashioned love-stories," and several other papers speak favorably of it. The London Academy, however, calls it "a commonplace farce," and The Outlook (New York) makes the objection that "the characters neither act reasonably nor talk naturally." "It is a disconcerting, but not displeasing blend of folly and shrewdness," thinks the London Athenaeum, and while "some readers will think the book a mere tissue of nonsense, others may take a fleeting pleasure in its very absurdity."

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THE

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Still a third story is of a father who, by so slyly disappearing as to lead to a belief in his having committed suicide, caused the insurance company to pay his sons $25,000-the sum they needed to push an invention by which they made a large fortune; afterward, on being told by their father of his deception, reimbursing, at his request, the insurance company. "An Incidental Scheme" is both an insurance and a good detective story. To find a delver into insurance describing an examining physician as disclaiming infallibility (as several times occurs), tho taxing, is reassuring.

That this book should be issued just at the time when the business of life insurance has been shown in its true colors is the cause of sarcastic

comment on the part of some newspapers. "The book is timely in that it is calculated to prop up the weakened ramparts of faith in insurance," observes the St. Paul Dispatch, and it adds that the book is one which the Old Line companies "should buy in large numbers and distribute as a part of their literature of conversion." However, the press generally regard the tales as well told, and generally interesting. The Nashville American declares they are told with " consummate skill and charm." But the Boston Herald thinks the stories possess only "ordinary literary merit."

THE BATTLE WITH BACTERIA. IMMUNITY IN INFECTIVE DISEASES. By Élie Metchnikoff, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, Professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Translated from the French by Francis G. Binnie of the Pathological Department, University of Cambridge. xvi, 591 pp. Price, $5.25. The Macmillan Company.

N the first page of this book, and again on the last, the author re

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nineteenth century, and observes that it was largely prompted by the dread of disease and of premature death. Apart, then, from the suffering and death resulting from infective diseases, it must be recognized that the question of immunity is of vast psychological importance. The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a purely practical point of view. "Do diseases come from without, or do their causes arise within the organism?" This question, long debated, and perhaps destined to remain long debatable, is surely a practical question. On the one hand is the all but universally accepted doctrine, dating from Pasteur, that certain diseases, if not all, appear only after the invasion of an organism by specific bacteria. On the other hand, it is shown that "as soon as he is born, man becomes the habitat of a rich microbial flora," which includes not only many indifferent species, but also, very generally, forms known to be disease-producing as the bacteria of pneumonia and of diphtheria. In other words, infective diseases arise from external causes, but the operation of these causes depends upon internal conditions. What, then, enables an animal to resist the action of bacteria? Why are some men less susceptible to a given disease than others? Why is the same man less susceptible at one time than at another? It is toward the solution of this problem of immunity that Metchnikoff's studies and original researches for a quarter of a century have been directed.

Beginning with the lowest forms of animal life, Metchnikoff traces the evolution of immunity up to the highest vertebrates. The mechanism of immunity in a one-celled animal is both simple and direct: the animal digests the invader and preserves its health. This power of intracellular digestion, carried over into certain cells of the more complex animals, furnished the author the basis for his theories of inflammation and resistance, first published in 1883. Briefly stated, his theory is that an invasion of foreign bodies into the system is met by an army of white corpuscles from the blood and lymph, which proceed to envelop themselves about the strangers, ultimately to digest them, or otherwise to prevent their multiplication and spread. If the bacteria produce some toxic substances, the corpuscles produce a neutralizing antitoxin. The fate of some

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of the higher animals, including man, depends accordingly upon the continuous struggle between these "phagocytes" and the attacking organisms. That none of the body fluids have the power to destroy the vitality of the bacteria or to neutralize the toxins has been demonstrated by numerous elaborate experiments. Moreover, when the activity of white cor puscles is diminished, as by the administration of some opiate, the sus ceptibility of the animal is at once increased; whereas, on the contrary, a stimulation of the phagocytes to greater activity increases the resisting power of the animal.

Immunity is classified into hereditary and acquired, and the latter class is further divided into "naturally acquired" and "artificially acquired" immunities. Immunity is naturally acquired by surviving an attack of a disease; artificially the same kind of immunity may be induced by vaccination with an attenuated or weakened form of a disease culture or virus. Among other methods of aiding the natural resistance may be mentioned the administration of antitoxins, to neutralize the poisons, and of serum to stimulate the action of the phagocytes.

Just as Pasteur's theory of the organic origin of disease worked a revolution in the whole practise of medicine and surgery, the general acceptance of Metchnikoff's theory of phagocytic resistance to disease must mark another epoch in our pursuit of health.

CHRISTMAS POETRY.

"There's No Place Like the Old

Place!"

[For "Old Home Week," Tyringham, August, 1905.] BY RICHARD WATSON GILDER.

I

Back to the old place I've come home again,

Back at last from the big town,

After so many hard and struggling years;

Back to the old home, the old home in the mountains,

In the valley of childhood:

And I say to myself, again and again I say:

There's no place like the old place!

II

Here once more I wander, here in the valley of brooks, I wander a stranger-where every spring and tree and

rock is familiar.

The little brooks tinkle down, with the old music, through the pine-darkened gorges;

The brooks that sometimes run dry, or hide under the smooth stones;

In the time of fulness leaping from ledge to ledge down to the big brook that never dries,

Where the trout dartle and the pools are shadowy and cool

And good to the hot body of a boy.

Lovely, with an intimate loveliness, is the valley;

And again and again I chant to myself:

Oh, there's no place like the old place!

III

There's no place like the old place!

Strangely nearer seem the walls of the valley,

Tho far and spacious as ever the mysterious sunset, Never before have I felt so intensely the beauty of it all,

How well-shaped the double valley;

The upper valley like a great, green bowl,

And the lower valley opening out toward the sunset like a trumpet;

The mountains embowered with evergreens, and

maples, and chestnuts,

Or lying naked in the sun,

Scraped bare by the ancient glacier,

Scoured by rains and scarred by lightnings,

And with a look as if the salt sea had beaten and bitten there for a thousand years.

IV

Stately and gracious with elms and willows are the smooth and grassy meadows,

Leveled for human use by the lakes of untold ages, Then covered with forests that the pioneers uprooted,

Rich now and full of peace; bringing back the wellloved images of the Bible:

Meadows where first I heard the swift song of the bobolink,

Throbbing and ringing madly back and forth in the

meadow air,

And whence, in full summer, after the long, hot day The boy, that was I, came back to the home barn Royally charioted on the high-piled, sweet scented hay.

Ah, there's no place like the old place!

V

There, under the hill is the homestead;

How large the maples have grown that the old folks planted!

Sweet was the sap in the spring and the 'shade in the

summer.

I never knew such water as from the spring at our house,

Running cold as ice in the kitchen and out in the barn. And the little window up there was mine!

I tell you I slept well, and rose early in those days, Tho sometimes at night after a long rain, or when the ice was melting in Hayes's pond,

I could scarce sleep for the brook roaring like Niagara, As it leaped the mill-dams and spread out over the meadows,

Scurrying great logs along, and every footbridge in the

valley.

But most times it was quiet enough at the old home,The dear old place, the old place that's the best place!

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VI

Oh, there's no place like the old place, and no time
like the old time!

The chores were rough, but the keener the zest for the
play!

For chestnuting in the frosty autumn,

For the tug of the bass at Goose pond and the lake at
Monterey,

And the day of fun at the county fair;

For the skim on the frozen meadow on winter nights,
Or the watch at the pickerel flags in the ice-holes on
the white spread of the mountain lakes,

Or the flying plunge of the bob-sled down Paper-mill
hill;

The chase for the woodchuck, and the far-circling fox,
and the all-night tramp for the treed 'coon;
For a hay-ride with a bevy of girls and a moonlight
drive with one;

For wanderings through the woods and over the
hills,-

When the billowing mountain-laurel from afar off
Looked like flocks of sheep on the high terraces of the

old Sweet farm;

When the hiding arbutus or gossamer clematis scented
the clean air;

When came the child's first thrill at the boom of the

startled partridge,

And when first the adventúrer heard a whole, great
blossoming linden

Humming, with honey gathering bees, like the plucked
string of a violin.

VII

Oh, there's no place like the old place!

Mightier mountains there are, sky-piercing and snow-
covered all the year round,.

But the lion-like curve of Cobble, clear-cut against the
southern heavens,

On still, cold nights heaves close to the thick stars;
And the white ways of the Galaxy I have seen start
from the lion's head

And sweep over to the long mountain, as if all the
light and glory were for the valley only.

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The one that I am is not the one that I was-yet truly
No one but I ever knew the youth who departed-
And the youth who departed still lives in the elder re-
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-From The Critic (Dec.).

To Jesus the Nazarene.

BY FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES.1
Closest to men, thou pitying Son of Man,
And thrilled from crown to foot with fellowship,
Yet most apart and strange, lonely as God,-
Dwell in my heart, remote and intimate One!
Brother of all the world, I come to thee!
Gentle as she who nursed thee at her breast
(Yet what a lash of lightnings once thy tongue
To scourge the hypocrite and Pharisee!)-
Nerve thou my arm, O meek, O mighty One!
Champion of all who fail, I fly to thee!
1 Died September 19, 1905.

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O man of sorrows, with the wounded hands,-
For chaplet, thorns; for throne, a pagan cross;
Bowed with the woe and agony of time,
Yet loved by children and the feasting guests,-
I bring my suffering, joyful heart to thee.

Chaste as the virginal lily on her stem,
Yet in each hot, full pulse, each tropic vein,
More filled with feeling than the flow'r with sun;
No anchorite,-hale, sinewy, warm with love,-
I come in youth's high tide of bliss to thee.

O Christ of contrasts, infinite paradox,
Yet life's explainer, solvent harmony,

Frail strength, pure passion, meek austerity,
And the white splendor of these darken'd years,-
I lean my wondering, wayward heart on thine.

-From The Century Magazine (Dec.).

Christmastide.

BY CLINTON DANGERFIELD. There is no summer now! Bare hangs each hapless bough, Bare lies the once green earth, Stilled is each bright bird's mirth. What then shall compensate For hills made desolate?

The very streams are locked,
And where the white sheep flocked
The whiter snow now lies,

A bitter, chill surprise.

What gain for this our grief,

For loss of flower and leaf?

Lo, on our hearths aspire
The many-jeweled fire;
And in the evening's leisure,
In comradeship's pure pleasure,
All woes men put aside.
This is the Christmastide!

Love in an Infant's guise
Smiles at us with warm eyes.
This is hard winter's crown,
Shining the old griefs down.

This then shall compensate-
Love find His lost estate!
-From Ainslee's Magazine.

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The white star made a way for them
Across the fields of Bethlehem,

Who came to worship at His feet
And kiss her tattered garment's hem.
The ox hath raised his voice to show
The way wherein their steps should go;
And they have entered with their gifts,
And One hath smiled upon them so.

Above the frankincense and myrrh,
They heard the deep-breathed cattle stir;
But they have touched His baby hand
And felt the trembling smile of her.

Amen! Amen, but would to-night
A star could lead my steps aright,
To bow my head upon His feet
And weep my heart out in His sight!
-Prom Munsey's Magazine.

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Indeed, it might be said that he had an agile set of figures that performed at his bidding, much as the automatons of the showman obey his pull of the strings. A favorite amusement with him was to show not only the possibility but the ease of living within a small income, a hardship he had no reason to experiMr. Atkinson never had difficulty in proving that a dollar a day was sufficient to permit the rearing of a family in comfort, giving them an education, buying a home and laying aside enough to safeguard against want in the time the toiler could work no

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To unfold on paper this scheme, and similar ones, was a regular and perhaps harmless pastime. The one-dollar man could not calculate with the adroitness of Mr. Atkinson, but he had a stomach to fill and a back to cover. From these he got instruction enough to spoil the pretty theory Mr. Atkinson had devised for him, and from the manifest folly of the preachment he formed an opinion not flattering to the statistician.

Outside Mr. Atkinson's immediate environment, however, it was his controversial spirit and his skill in the use of figures that made him a notable character. He appeared to be guided by conscience, for he not only threw himself into every contest involving principle, but was apt to take the unpopular side. If opposed, he would reach for some ponderous columns of his educated figures, and the opposition would fade; the fight became not worth while. From the

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