for any dirty trick that comes your way. When good feeling, or even common honor, denies you, there's always a text somewhere to oil your conscience.' ""I've one, sir, on which I can rely-"Be just, and fear not." "I'll test it. You'll have my money; on which you hardly dared hope to count, eh? Be honest.' "Only on so much of it as is entailed, sir.' "For a while John Rosewarne sat silent, with his eyes on the horizon. 'That,' said he at length, 'is-just what you could not count on.' He turned and looked Sam squarely in the face. 'You were born out of wedlock, my son.' "Sam's hand gripped the iron of the bench. The muscles of his face scarcely moved, but its sallow tint changed, under his father's eyes, to a sickly drab." Had Mr. W. D. Howells taken up the story at this point we should have received a minute and illuminating record of John Rosewarne's penance, with its doubts, struggles, and pathetic misgivings. But the author's interest leads in another direction. 'Rosewarne dies after the interview with his son, and we are shown the effect on the life of the community when the decadent Sam becomes the master of Hall, and thus the master of the fortunes of two-thirds of the townsfolk. The blind Clem, and Myra, his devoted sister, play a beautiful but pathetic part in the history of a community where the persecuting and hypocritical Sam is the evil genius, and Hester Marvin, who remains a mystery until the end of the story, is the ministering angel. These figures are all well drawn-not overdrawn-neither too diabolical nor too angelic, but human, and especially in the cases of both Hester and Myra, keenly sympathetic. But it is in Peter Benny, the quondam clerk of old John Rosewarne, that Mr. Quiller-Couch has drawn closest to life. This lovable little man, the meekest in the town, yet the most heroic when occasion needs, dances through the pages like a ray of sunshine. He is indeed worth a story to himself, and a further account of his life should prove of greater interest than the mildly disappointing tale that forms the present volume. CARNEGIE'S LIFE OF WATT. JAMES WATT. By Andrew Carnegie. Cloth, 241 pp. Price, $1.40 net. Doubleday, Page & Co. WH HEN we recall the many respects in which the careers of Andrew Carnegie and James Watt run parallel to each other, it is not difficult to appreciate the enthusiasm with which Mr. Carnegie approached the task of writing a biography of the inventor of the steamengine, an invention, as the Boston Transcript notes, to which the ironmaster owes much of his fortune. Curiously enough, however, he tells us that until he was requested to write this new "Life," he knew little of the history either of the steam-engine or of Watt, and that it was primarily the desire to know more that influenced him to turn biographer. The result is a compact and agreeable presentation, not only of the salient facts of Watt's personality and career, but of a philosophy of success founded upon the experiences of both these interesting Scotchmen. Indeed, it is in the expression of the author's views of life and the world that the work's value mainly lies, for, as a biography, it adds naught to the store of available information. As The Evening Post says, it is "an exposition of the common-sense philosophy of success as the result of industry and labor, with James Watt to illustrate." Mr. Carnegie's philosophizing begins almost with the opening chapter. Writing of the necessity which early cast Watt upon his own resources, he declares: ANDREW CARNEGIE. "Fortunate it was for our subject, and especially so for the world, that he was favored by falling heir to the best heritage of all, as Mr. Morley calls it in his address to the Midland Institute-'the necessity at an early age to go forth into the world and work for the means needed for his own support.' President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect, 'The best heritage to which a man can be born is poverty.' The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the sons of millionaires leads him fully to concur with these high authorities." After this, it is only reasonable to expect a highly sympathetic study of Watt's struggles and achievements, and of the factors assisting or retarding his progress. From his earliest youth, as Mr. Carnegie shows, he displayed great manual dexterity-a faculty which was to stand him in such good stead in the construction of his magnum opus-a lively and energetic mind, uncommon resourcefulness, and an innate determination to master knowledge. In this last characteristic is found the keynote of his success. It will be remembered that while he was busied in the workroom provided for him by the authorities of Glasgow University, Professor Black commissioned him to build an organ. ... "Watt," writes Mr. Carnegie, "knew nothing about organs, but he immediately undertook the work, and the result was an indisputable success that led to his constructing, for a mason's lodge in Glasgow, a larger 'finger organ,' 'which elicited the surprise and admiration of musicians.' When we investigate . this seeming sleight-of-hand triumph with the organs, we find that upon agreeing to make the first, Watt immediately devoted himself to a study of the laws of harmony, making science supplement his lack of the musical car. As usual the study was exhaustive. Of course, he found and took for guide the highest authority, a profound but obscure book by Professor Smith of Cambridge University, and, mark this, he first made a model of the forthcoming organ. We note that the taking of infinite pains, this forearming of himself, this knowing of everything that was to be known, the note of thorough preparation in Watt's career, is ever conspicuous. The best proof that he was a man of true genius is that he first made himself master of all knowledge bearing upon his tasks." Considerations of space forbid further quotation. We can only add that all who desire an intimate knowledge of Mr. Carnegie, as well as of James Watt, can not do better than to procure this book, which is, moreover, extremely interesting and helpful. BENTON AND OREGON. THE LIFE OF THOMAS HART BENTON. By William M. Meigs. Cloth, 535 pp. Price, $1.50 net. J. B. Lippincott Company. HE trend of affairs in the Orient and the rapid development of our of the statesman who was most active in protecting American interests in that quarter. Benton stands just below Webster, Clay, and Calhoun as one of the monumental figures of the first half-century of our National politics. Without the commanding intellect and oratory of the first, the fascinating personality of the second, or the acumen in argument of the third, he yet surpassed them all in his insight into the real problems of the hour and in his prescience of future events. His position on the Oregon settlement illustrates his statesmanship. At a time when such men as McDuffie said, "I would not give a pinch of snuff for the whole territory of Oregon. I wish to God we did not have it!" Benton foresaw, with prophetic clearness, the development of that region. He said: "It is valuable both as a country to be inhabited and as a position to be held and defended. I speak of it, first, as a position commanding the North Pacific Ocean, the seat of a rich commerce. The Eastern Asiatics are more numerous than our customers in Western Europe-more profitable to trade with, and less dangerous to quarrel with. The trade of the East has long been the richest jewel in the diadem of commerce. All nations have sought it and those which obtained it attained the highest degree of opulence, refinement, and power. The apparition of the van of the Caucasian race, rising upon them in the East after having left them on the West, and after having completed the circumnavigation of the globe, must reanimate the torpid body of old Asia." While thus strongly pressing the claims of the United States to the Oregon territory, Benton believed in a fair division of the disputed territory with Great Britain at 49° instead of the radical " 54° 40′ or fight!" which was the slogan which carried Polk to victory in 1845. Benton distrusted Webster's ability to conduct the negotiation with Great Britain and told him he was "not the man, with a goose-quill in hand, to stand up against the British Empire in arms." By birth a Southerner and a slaveholder, Benton naturally opposed the restrictions of slavery and advocated the admission of Missouri as a slave State. But later in life he changed his views and said, in 1849: "If there was no slavery in the United States to-day I should oppose its coming in; as there is none in New Mexico or California, I am against sending it to those territories." He was always for the Union. He opposed the Mexican War at first, but advocated its vigorous prosecution, suggested the Vera Cruz campaign to Polk, and intimated his willingness to lead the forces, if given supreme command. He opposed the Omnibus Bill and Wilmot Proviso, and strongly advocated the Pacific Railroad, closing an inspiring address on this theme with the figure of Columbus saying to the flying passengers, "There is the East! There is India!" His opposition to the extension of slavery led to his defeat, in 1851, for reëlection to the Senate. He entered the House of Representatives and served one term, occupied himself with writing his "Thirty Years' View," ran for Governor of Missouri, opposed his own son-in-law, Frémont, and supported Buchanan for President in 1856. He died in 1858. Mr. Meigs's narrative is diffuse but vivacious, and abounds in anecdote and illustration. 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The mutineers in the Black Sea issued a proclamation declaring war on all Russian ships which refused to join them; a new plot to seize the Georgi Pobiedonosetz was reported frustrated. A general political strike has been proclaimed in St. Petersburg for Thursday; over twenty-five thousand men are already out and there have been a number of clashes with police. July 5.-The standard of rebellion was raised on the Kniaz Potemkin at Theodosia, where the battle-ship arrived and demanded supplies, under a threat to bombard the city; a proclamation similar to that issued at Kustenji was given out by the mutineers, notifying the Russian Government that the decisive struggle had begun. Rioting occurred in St. Petersburg. July 6.-Grave disorders throughout the regions bordering on the Black Sea have been inspired by news of the mutiny. Extreme precautions have been taken at Sevastopol. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. July 2.-President Roosevelt announced the consummation of his efforts for peace. Japan and Russia have named four envoys, each vested with full power to sign a treaty of peace. They will meet in Washington as soon after August i as possible. July 7-The Czar approved the list of Russia's peace commissioners and gave the plenipotentiaries authority to fix the amount to be paid Japan as indemnity. A rumor that the Russians interned at Manila were plotting to murder their officers caused the American officials to place the monitor Monadnock near the Russian war-ships. OTHER FOREIGN NEWS. July 1.-Germany, it is said, will, in the event of the rejection by France of the scheme for an international conference over Morocco, proceed in her own way in that country. Owing to the illness of Premier Rouvier the conference between him and Prince von Radolin, the German Ambassador, was postponed. France has submitted to Germany a modified note on Morocco favoring in principle the proposed conference. July 6-The body of John Paul Jones, first admiral of the American navy, was formally handed over to United States officials at Paris with a brilliant display of public ceremonial, speeches being made by General Porter, Special Ambassador Loomis and Admiral Sigsbee. A French submarine, with a crew of thirteen on board,. foundered at Ferryville, Tunis, but it was reported from Paris that no lives were lost. July 7.-France's sunken submarine was raised at Tunis, the thirteen men who went down with her being all alive. It was authoratively stated that Sweden would take precautionary measures on her frontier to offset the threatening attitude of Norway. Domestic. July 1. John Hay, Secretary of State, died suddenly at his summer home, Lake Sunapee, near Newbury, N. H. 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July 4.-The Secretary of Agriculture has caused 1,200 suits to be begun against railway companies for violations of the statute requiring live stock in transit to be unloaded once in twenty-eight hours for food and water and allowed out of the cars at least five hours. Senator Mitchell was found guilty of accepting money for practicing as an attorney before the Government departments in Washington, and recommended to the mercy of the court. July 5.-The funeral of John Hay, Secretary of State, took place in Cleveland, the services being marked by extreme simplicity, President Roosevelt, Vice-President Fairbanks and present and former members of the Cabinet attending. July 7.-The formal acceptance by Elihu Root of the office of Secretary of State was made public by the President's authority, anOyster Bay. A Kansas court decided that that State could not establish a rival plant to the Standard Oil Company. 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