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PLEASE MENTION NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE

A MAKER OF HISTORY. By E. Phillips Oppenheim.

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An absorbingly interesting mystery story written in Mr. Oppenheim's usual fascinating style. The reader is carried through a maze of incident, plot and counterplot which claim his unwavering attention. young Englishman-a boy really-while travelling on the continent, unknown to them, witnesses a meeting between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany and becomes the possessor of a loose sheet of a treaty between the two countries, relative to an attack upon England. He is followed to Paris by German spies, but there at the Café Montmartre, gives away his secret to people who are closely allied with the secret service police of France, who kidnap him and by a trick induce him to remain hidden. The French diplomats make use of his information and the German spies look for him in vain. His sister, who goes to Paris to meet him, is also spirited away. Meanwhile friends at home take up the search for the missing young people and therein lies the story into which is worked a pleasing bit of romance. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.)

BABY BULLET. By Lloyd Osbourne.

It was inevitable that somebody should write an automobile story, and it is well that Mr. Osbourne has done it. He knows his auto, all its possibilities, vagaries and malignant eccentricities, and he has made them the basis of a double love story. Motorists will enjoy its technical treatment of the mechanism, and the almost human perversity with which the two machines made and marred the rapidly moving episodes of the story, for the course of true love ran smooth, even if there was no end of annoyance from the freakishness of the vehicles. The scene is in rural England, and every page of the story has its own interesting bit of local color as a background of queer but well contrived adventure. And the reader who is not a motorist will enjoy the book. Whether it will seduce him into the craze for a machine or not will be a matter of temperament. (D. Appleton & Co., New York.)

MENTAL HEALING. By Leander Edmund Whipple.

This volume first appeared in 1893, and this fifth edition is an indication of the increasing interest in its subject. The author maintains that health is the birthright of mankind, and that mental action is in large measure its defender and promoter. He

admits that no single volume can cover all that should be urged in support of the theories of his cult, but makes a fair presentation of their leading features, for popular reading. He defends the term "metaphysical healing," and accuses mental "error" as the great cause of disease, and mental poise and vigor as its cure. Many striking cases of successful treatment are related, and the book is worth reading, not only by the adherents of the various cults based upon its general theory, but by all who wish information on one of the most interesting of modern topics. (The Metaphysical Publishing Co., New York. $1.50 net.)

THE KENTUCKIAN. By James Ball Naylor. This is a homely tale of southern Ohio, just before the war, where in a rural community there were lawless horse thieves and shrewd but uncultured, honest citizens. Religion was represented by the circuit rider with his harsh and vociferous preaching, and farm life, the district school and life in the woods were the setting of a romance in which the young school master from Kentucky was the hero. The story is interesting and natural, and gives a vivid picture of a period now almost forgotten. (C. M. Clark Publishing Company, Boston. $1.50.)

WITH THE AUTHORS

Few writers can boast so many books to their credit as a certain author of Portland, Maine, well known to juvenile readers as "James Otis." Mr. Kaler-his full name is James Otis Kaler-went into newspaper work at the age of fourteen, and later strayed into politics. It was during a lull in a political campaign that, having a few idle days on his hands, he wrote his famous story for boys, "Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus," which was first published serially in "Harper's Young People," and has now become a classic. The great success of this story led Mr. Kaler to give up his newspaper work, and since 1880 he has devoted all his time to writing for young people. He has now 104 books on the market, "which would seem to be all that an indulgent public could swallow," he recently observed, "although the publishers and little boys appear to have a different idea on the subject." Mr. Kaler receives many letters from his youthful readers; it is seldom that the week's end finds him with less than thirty to be answered, but he makes it a rule to reply to every one, and somehow finds time in which to do it.

Greater Industries of America

Some Observations on Pure Coffee; Its Culture, Treatment and

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matter of fact, that it was used for a long time as a medicine before it became the common drink of the people.

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table found a virile influence in the seductive aroma and bracing flavor of his cup of coffee. His thoughts-those memorable cascades of philosophy-flowed with more ardor and glow and spirit when his coffee was served. Dickens never wrote a line until he had taken his breakfast of coffee and toast. It stimulated him for his day's work, and the bodily effect was strengthening-never debilitating. It has for many years been advocated by those having the elevation of the laboring classes of Europe at heart as a substitute for the dangerous and transient stimulation of beer and spirits. Wherever this substitution has been successful the element of work capability has increased more than a hundred per cent.

Coffee had a freakish start in commerce. It began as a fad of an English merchant named Edwards, in 1551. He brought a quantity of beans home from Smyrna for his private use. Nobody had the least idea what it was until he invited some of his friends and neighbors to taste the new beverage and then his house was so overrun with visitors asking for it, that he put

a servant into a coffee house business and told them all to go to that place and buy it. From this little beginning the habit of coffee drinking spread rapidly. In a short time it became general throughout the world, and around the little aromatic berry there evolved, as the years rolled into centuries, an enormous industry of the soil with tremendous ramifications in the curing, shipping, preparing for market and dispersing into the myriad avenues of the world's traffic and consumption. What a stunning thing it is, when you think of it, this infinite, incalculable growth of commerce from a simple coffee bean. The English merchant of the sixteenth century, by an accidental discovery, gave the people of the whole world their stan ard beverage for all time.

The leading kinds of coffee distinguished from one another in commerce are Mocha, which comes from Arabia and is a small greenish-gray bean; Java or East Indian, a large yellow bean; Jamaica, a small greenish bean; Surinam, a very large grey bean, and Bourbon, a pale yellow bean. As equal care is not given to the cultivation and treatment of coffee in all places where it is grown, there are great differences in the quality and price. A good deal very naturally depends on

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climate and culture and very much, also, on freeing the beans of impurities and curing them.

The great demand for coffee has led to the employment of a number of substitutes, of which chicory root is the best known; dandelion root, carrot, cereals, sweet potatoes and other substances are also employed. These things are wholesome enough, maybe, but all substitutes lack the most important constituent of true coffee -caffeine, and are therefore very different from it in their real qualities. The percentage of nutritive material in cereal or vegetable coffee imitations is not above two per cent. There is probably nothing in these imitations but disappointment and dyspepsia.

The coffee beans must be roasted exactly right or they lose between twenty and thirty-five per cent, in quality, which is the real reason why some of the coffees in common use are SO unsatisfactory. There is more importance attached to the blending and nice preparation of coffee for use than perhaps for any article for the table. The beans must never be darker than a light brown to bring out the full aroma and other good qualities; when the roasting is carried further there is more or less charring and the disagreeable burned taste is imparted that coffee

drinkers all know and have a keen repugnance for.

Some idea of the immense use of coffee by the people of the United States may be had from the fact that in 1895 there were imported into this country over five hundred thousand tons. The consumption of coffee was greater than that of tea, cocoa, chocolate, imitation coffees and all other table beverages of this class combined. It is so pre-emirently the drink of the people that its use is increasing at an average of twenty million pounds a year. And the reason for this is twofold; it has been found to agree with and to advance health conditions here to a high degree; and very much of its prestige in this regard is due to the perfect methods and processes of blending, separating, roasting, cooling and packing, as notably carried on in the establishment of the Dwinell-Wright Company in Boston. This may be designated as the model enterprise of the kind in America, if not in the world, and its principal product, White House Coffee. is undoubtedly the purest and most perfect blend of coffee that can be obtained. It has made the expression "Boston Roasted Coffee" a synonym for perfection in every home and public place where good coffee is the uniform rule.

Perhaps the reader, possibly a bit skep

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