A Day in Norway: Horace E. Scudder...... .Century.
A Journey in Thessaly: Thomas Dwight Godell....Century.
A Massachusetts Shoe Town: Alvan F. Sanborn.. Atlantic.
A Rose Carnival on Puget Sound: B. E. Blewell.Rev. of Rev.
A Typical Kansas Community: Wm. Allen White.. Atlantic.
Another Day in Norway: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen..... Cen.
Across Spitsbergen: Robert E. Peary............. Book Buyer.
Block Island: Samuel W. Mendum..

N. E. Mag.
..Century.

Down to Java: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore..
Hunting in Southern Oregon: John E. Bennett....Overland.
Impressions of Mt. Rainier: Israel C. Russell....Scribner's.
In the Empire of the Mikado: J. Simms...........F. L. Pop. Mo.
India Starving: Julian Hawthorne........ ..Cosmopolitan.
Life in Washington, D. C.: Wm. Elleroy Curtis.. ...Chaut.
London at Play: Elizabeth Robins Pennell.. .Century.
Tehipiti Valley: Theodore S. Solomons... ..Overland.
The Alaska Trip: John Muir .....
Century.

The Hungarian Millenium: F. Hopkinson Smith.. Harper's.
The Plague in Bombay: E. W. Hopkins.
Those Blessed Tirolese: W. D. McCrackan.
Two Boer Republics: Francis E. Clarke.

.Forum. Godey's. ...Rev. of Rev.

NEWSPAPER VERSE: SELECTIONS GRAVE AND GAY

"Annetta Jones-Her Book".. Frank L. Stanton*.. Atlanta Constitution

A rare old print of Shakespeare-his works-in boards of brown,
With quaint engravings; here and there the yellowed leaves turned down
Where sweet, love breathing Juliet speaks--and as I lean and look
Traced in pale, faded ink the words: Annetta Jones-Her Book."
Now this old print of Shakespeare I prize, because 'tis rare—
The gem of all my library, dust and glory there,

I marvel much at Hamlet's "ghost," and Banquo's pictured bones;
But who, ye gods of ancient days, was this Annetta Jones?

Day with her white hand sweeps them up,
Triumphant her disdain;

Night waits, and with sure patience wins
Her losses back again.

Tired now, for that last game they look
Which shall decide the play;

I wonder whether Time will stop
By night or day?

Dominion over palm and pine-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

*See Gossip of Authors, page 238. † Printed by request. See Open Questions, page 288.

The tumult and the shouting dies

The captains and the kings depart;
Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

Far-called our navies melt away

On dune and headland sinks the fire-
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday

Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

If drunk with sight of power, we loose

Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe-
Such boasting as the Gentiles use

Or lesser breeds without the Law-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard—
All valiant dust that builds on dust,

The White Wolf's Cry...J. J. Roche...Harper's Weekly
We are the Chosen People-look at the hue of our skins!
Others are black or yellow-that is because of their sins.
We are the heirs of ages, masters of every race,
Proving our right and title by the bullet's saving grace;
Slaying the naked red man; making the black one our slave;
Flaunting our Color in triumph over a world-wide grave;
Wearing the lamb's pure vestment to the unsuspecting feast;

Recessional ..............

.....Rudyard Kipling......London Times Flinging it off to show them the conquering Mark of the Beast.
God of our fathers, known of old---
Lord of our far-flung battle-line --
Beneath Whose awful Hand we hold

Unto the tropic Edens, where shame was a thing unthought,
Bearing the fruit of knowledge with the serpent's venom

fraught.

Indian, Maori, and Zulu; red man, and yellow, and black,
White are their bones wherever they met with the White

And guarding calls not Thee to guard-
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!

Amen.

Wolf's pack.

We are the Chosen People-whatever we do is right-
Feared as men fear the leper, whose skin, like our own, is
White!

OPEN QUESTIONS: TALKS WITH CORRESPONDENTS

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years. He had travelled all over the world, and collected many curios. I believe it to be the "smallest book in the world," the printed page being one-half inch wide by elevensixteenths inch long. It is in the French language and is entitled La Petite Fabuliste, and was printed in 1815 in Paris, at No. 54 Rue San Jacque. It contains La Fontaine's fables, illustrated with twelve full-page engravings; a monthly calendar of the year 1815, and sundry popular songs and poems. It consists of sixty-four pages and is bound in red leather, tooled and gilded, and gilt edged. I showed it at the British Museum and at the National Library at Paris in 1881, where they had a multitude of small volumes, but nothing half so diminutive as this, and they had never seen a copy of this book or any other near so small. It was not printed from movable type, but doubtless from engraved copper plates. Who has another copy of La Petite Fabuliste? -F. M. Mills, Lincoln, Ill.

332. Hajji Baba:

[Some months ago a query concerning a book of the above title was received by Current Literature. We printed it without comment in this department (see April number), and no one of our many correspondents answered it a fact that gives us grace to emphasize our previous admission of ignorance by this honest statement of the case. But we make our further confession with all humility. For now that we have seen the book we learn, among other things, from the introductory remarks of E. G. Browne, M. A., that "no Englishman can, in truth, lay any claim to culture who has not read Hajji Baba." We are glad that Americans are not mentioned. The book, which is entitled The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, is by James Morier, and was published in 1895 by Methuen & Co., 36 Essex St., Strand, London, England, in their English Classics series, edited by W. E. Henley. It has an introduction by E. G. Browne, M. A., and is in two volumes, buckram, crown octavo, "price, 3s. 6d." There was issued also a limited edition of 25 copies, on vellum and Japanese paper, which, it is fair to presume, is by this time exhausted, such is the English appreciation of Hajji Baba. So great, indeed, is the popularity of this book, and in such high esteem is it held, we are told, not only as an artistic and diverting romance, but as a faithful and representative picture of Persian life and manners, even to-day, that Mr. Browne in his preface says: "The traditional piece of counsel to intending travelers in Persia, Take an English saddle and a copy of Hajji Baba,' remains the best that can be given." Any importing bookseller can furnish the volumes, but there was a cheap American edition of this romance issued ten years or more ago, bearing the imprint of John E. Potter & Co., 617 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

Whether this was an authorized edition, and whether the publishing firm is still in existence, are other cases in which to the charge of ignorance Current Literature pleads guilty.]

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360. How many native-born Americans were in the Northern army in the recent war?—A_Subscriber, Natchez, Miss.

361. Kenneth Young's Selene: I will take it as a great favor if you will tell me where I can get Kenneth Young's Selene, which is reviewed in the April number of Current Literature. Mrs. John Clark Ridpath, Greencastle, Indiana.

[Through the courtesy of T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the Afro-American Journal of News and Opinion, we are informed that copies of Selene can be secured from Dr. A. C. McClennan, druggist, Charleston, S. C.]

362. La Petite Fabuliste: Under the heading Notes of a Book Lover, in June number of Current Literature, I read of diminutive books. I am the possessor of a little volume which I have owned for thirty years. It was given to me by an Englishman who had owned it for twenty-five

[Our correspondent is in error in thinking the book he describes the smallest in the world, we believe. For an account of a still tinier volume and picture of the one here mentioned, see page 216.]

363. Kipling's Jubilee Poem: Will Current Literature publish in its Correspondence column the verses which were written by Rudyard Kipling by way of comment upon the recent Diamond Jubilee celebration in England? The verses were published in the London Times. I remember but one line:

"All our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and Tyre." -Bertram Sanders, Connersville, Indiana.

[We reprint with pleasure, on page 287 of the present number, Mr. Kipling's Recessional, the poem desired by our correspondent.]

364. Bohemia: Will you kindly tell me where to find that old poem A. J. Burbank used to recite? I believe the title was Bohemia. The first line read:

"I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land," etc. -Jas. W. Cool, Spokane, Washington.

[The poem for which you inquire is by John Boyle O'Reilly, and may be found in the edition of his works, now issued complete in one volume by the Cassell Publishing Co.,31 East 17th Street, New York City. O'Reilly's poems were formerly published in Boston, in several volumes; but on

the discontinuance of the firm to which the poet had entrusted them, the rights of publication were purchased by the Cassells, and they are now to volume, containing poems, letters, and speeches be had of them as stated above. The price of the complete, edited by Mrs. John Boyle O'Reilly, is $3.00, $4.00 or $5.00, according to binding.]

365. British Peerage: I would thank you very much to advise me as to what are the best books treating on the British Peerage.-" Peerage," Columbus, Ga.

[Burke's Peerage—A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary, by Sir Bernard Burke-is perhaps the most familiar, but other books of the kind, equally good, are: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E. C.; Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire for 1880, by Joseph Foster; Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, by Edmund Lodge; Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, by John de Brett; and Present Peerage of Great Britain, by J. Edmondson. ]