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4 THE BEOOKLYK DAILY EAGLE SATUBPAT, NOVEMBER 16, 1895. JOHNSON'S CYCLOPEDIA. DR. BEHRENDS ACCEPTS BEST KNOWN OF AMERI CA'S WR ITERS M. Quad, the Detroit Free Press however excellent, Is the least useful of all, and these older works of reference tended to become books with a double character.

They contained articles by specialists which in their original form were of little practical use to the average reader, while the more useful articles were in many cases written by compilers. It was a case where the man who taught had just learned his facts out of a book. In this revHed work everything has passed through the hands of the specialist, and the great body of American and foreign authorities of eminence have shown that they know how to write briefly and to the point. Facts are put with scientific accuracy, but in popular form. The editor has classified his iubjects and the writer has treated them for every day use.

The best of the old book has retained, for it contained the work of men like Woolsey of Yale, Barnard of Columbia, Hitchcock of the Union Theological seminary and many others of equal eminence and ability. The new work is largely by another generation of scholars and authorities who represent the present condition of knowledge and opinion. It happens sometimes that the student thinks he is not dignified unless he clothes his thought it a shibboleth which no one but the article was contributed to a former edition and the changes necessary are not numerous, so that revision is all that is requisite, the name of the reviser is appended along with the original writer. This system of signing articles enables the reader to know that he is going to the fountain head, and that his information is obtained at first hand. He asks for no better guarantee than that.

Another notable feature Is the division and classification of subjects under different head3. The seeker after information Is not obliged to look all through the article on law to find something about mercantile law. The articles on medicine are not technical, and are so divided that different branches are treated separately. It often happens that different branches of one subject are written about by different men, and sameness of treatment is avoided. There Is a wonderful amount of detail in treatment, and the number of subjects treated seems almost infinite.

The edition is splendidly equipped with colored maps, presenting the latest facts in geographical science. The diagrams are numerous and of great value. The illustrations are fairly good, but do not present any specially new features. The practical side of the work is very marked, and appeals at once to the everyday man. He Is not wearied with long, technical articles, but finds many short and pungent bits of information covering just the things THE APPLETONS ISSUE A NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

A Work of Reference That Meets the Needs of the Scholar and the Average Citizen Articles Written and Signed by Experts and Specialists. "Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia." ETlght volumes, royal octavo, new and revised edition, 1S93 35, New York. D. Appleton A. J.

Jobnson company. The average citizen buys a cyclopedia without any very clear notion of what he is getting or what he really needs. He knows that a cyclopedia is a good thing, that it has an air of well bred intelligence about it, that its presence In the house is some sort of evidence that the family are well informed and have some interest in literary matters, and that it Is a useful compendium of information. He has never given much thought to the cyclopedia question, and to his mind one sort is about as good as another. He does not understand the difference between different issues and has no knowledge upon which to base an estimate as to the relative merits of different publications.

They are ill cyclopedias to him. Whether the information contained in any particular cyclo pedia is up to date, whether it is full and comprehensive, whether it has been specially prepared for the work, or perhaps is made up of reprints from old publications, doctored up with the addition of some new matter and a few new statistics, he has no means of knowing and cannot be expected to know. It is this lack of knowledge which has made possible the sale of large numbers of so called cyclopedias that are not worthy of the name. Then again, the average citizen is not cer tain whether he wants a cyclopedia or a dictionary. The two have been so merged in some publications in recent years that he is liable to be Just a little bit befogged when he comes to the question of settling what he really wants.

There are three kinds of reference books which belong to this field: The cyclopedia. The dictionary. The encyclopedic dictionary. The last named is really a cross between the two Qrst, although it partakes almost entirely. as a rule, of the dictionary character.

It has Its uses and when prepared with care and thoroughness, as in the case of some volumes now on the market, is an exceedingly useful and valuable work, but it is not a cyclopedia, and never can be made to All the want which the cyclopedia supplies. hen a man contemplates the purchase of a work of reference and is uncertain what he wants, let him take counsel with himself and decide what use he proposes for the book. There is ueed for some enlightenment of the puDlic mind on this subject. What are the uses of the dictionary, and for what purpose is mo cyciopeaia uesignea The dictionary is intended to answer specific questions. The cyclopedia treats subjects.

The Inquirer would not go to the cyclopedia to ascertain the spelling or definition or derivation of a word. Neither would he go to the dictionary for an article on international law or chemistry or the habits of an animal or the history of an individual. Ke wants to know what the llonroe doctrine means, and seeks an authority for a brief, critical statement, for example, the professor of international law at Yale. His inquiries ahout evolution uemand a present day statement of facts and opinions now dis cussed In scientific circles. He seeks Information as to a prominent man's career.

Although the encyclopedic dictionary treats biography, it is still a word book. Tom, Dick and Harry of every generation were born at a certain date, lived somewhere and died, but one looks for biographies of men who have done something and demands a brief statement of facts. Among these and of by no means the least importance Is a man's work and position, given by an authority competent to express a critical opinion ail in a half column. In one case he is seeking an answer to a specific question; in the other he is looking for information upon a general topic. Therein lies the difference in the uses of the two classes of books.

If the intending purchaser has this distinction clearly in mind, knowing his own wants, he can quickly decide whether he wants an expensive dictionary or a cyclopedia. Instances are within the writer's knowledge where persons who wanted the one have bought the other, because they did not understand the distinction between the two. The dictionary andthecyclopedia.as we have indicated, occupy different fields. In purchasing books of reference where the sum to be expended is limited discretion is necessary and possible even as regards adequate works of both kinds. One can now cut the cloth for a full suit and not put all Into one garment.

Assuming that the purchaser needs a cyclopedia, how shall he decide whether the volumes submitted to him for inspection possess the necessary fulness, accuracy, comprehensiveness and lateness of information in all fields, which are essential to a perfect cyclopedia? What are the standards by which he may measure the merits. of the work? There are certain tests which he can apply, which are simple and which will be found discriminating. If he is an average American citizen, and not a specialist, or a scholar in some particular field, if he is a business man, he will want a cyclopedia that is adapted to his own country and latitude, and which will pay especial attention to the things which are likely to interest him. He wants a work which will give him, among other things, the latest discoveries in science, but which will convey the information in such a form that it is intelligible to him, so that he can understand it without being a specialist in that particular science. If he is seeking some information about commercial law, he wishes to turn, to an article which will give him a general'ldea on the subject, and perhaps enable him to consult a lawyer intelligently.

If he wants information relative to notable personage he does not want a book that never touches a man's record until he Is dead. If he is looking for statistics he wants figures that are up to date and which convey the latest information and of whose accuracy there can be no question. If he desires information about a town or a country he does not want facts culled from old geographies and out of date works of travel, he desires the latest news about them. In fact, the characteristics of the perfect cyclopedia may be summed up in three words, comprehensiveness, completeness and accuracy, and with such facility as will make it possible of the best use. The first two can be ascertained by a general survey of the work and by contrasting it with others.

What guarantee has he of the last? Because a work is called, a cyclopedia Is no proof that It is worthy of the name. It costs a lot of money to get up a cyclopedia. Indeed there is scarcely any other publication that is so expensive and that calls for so large an outlay of time, labor and capital. It is work that cannot be accomplished with the scissors and paste pot. Therefore, it is well to beware of works of this class which are offered solely on reputation.

A good cyclopedia cannot be purchased at bargain counters. This leads us up to the consideration of the latest cyclopedia which has been offered in this country and which appeals to a distinctively American market. The eighth and concluding volume of the revised edition of Johnson's Universal cyclopedia has just been published by the Appletons and it is possible to consider whether it is all that a cyclopedia, which has behind it the past reputation 01" this work and of the publishers, is all that a cyclopedia ought to be. There has been need in this country for a work of reference which should meet the wants of the average citizen, as the Britannica does that of the student and the specialist. Johnson's claims to supply that want.

How closely does it come to do ing it is the purpose of this inquiry. Horace Greeley had the correct idea of how a cyclopedia should be written and it was his suggestion that led to the getting up of the first edition of Johnson's work. His theory was that a cyclopedia should be written by experts and not by compilers; that the men win) were best posted on special topics should be called upon to write the articles on those subjects; iu a wi rd, that every subject should be treated by specialists. It was a splendid idea, hut like some of Mr. Greeley's other ideas was a little in advance of his time.

It bore fruit, however, and it is the elaboration of that idea, the carrying of it out in the way which has become possible in a later time, that constitutes the chief claim which Johnson's now makes for paramount excellence. Both English specialists in the Britannica and Americans following their wake in our own works of reference Insisted upon writing long articles often extremely technical. Practically, the long article in the cyclopedia. I THE PROFFERED CHAPLAINCY OF THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. How Colonel Watson Came to Choose Him as the Successor of Beecher and Talmage He Will Be Honored by a Reception.

The Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, pastor of the Central Congregational church, has accepted the chaplaincy of the Thirteenth regiment.

Colonel William L. Watson called at the clergyman's residence, on Herkimer street, yesterday afternoon, and made him a formal tender of the place, which was recently vacated by the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. The colonel sent forward the appointment last night.

When Dr. Behrends' commission is received from Albany, the colonel Intends to invite the officers and veteran to meet the new chaplain, at a reception in the Sumner avenue armory. The first time that the Thirteenth is assembled on an occasion of ceremony he will be introduced to the regiment. Dr. Behrends is the third chaplain to ba appointed in the Thirteenth regiment during the past seventeen years.

Henry Ward Beecher having been commissioned inlSTS and Dr. Talmage, lu 1SS8. There were two princiDal rmmn for nr. Behrends' selection by Colonel Watson other than the Iatter's admiration for him as a preacher of the gospel. The first is Dr.

Behrends' friendship forHenrv Ward Beecher. attested by many years of devotion; the other tne sianu tnat he took in the simuorL of law and order during the railroad strike in January. Colonel Watson was long an Intimate menu or Beecher and when the Beecher company (G) of the Thirteenth was formed In ISS8, became its captain. Under the code the new staff officer must appear before the brigade board and be examined as to his fitness for the place. In tht case or cnapiains, however, such an annear ance is a mere formality, and his commission ougnt to oe in tne hands of the colonel within ten aays or two weeks at the latest.

A FIVE AND TEN CENT STORE. WOOLWORTH SYNDICATE OPENS A BRANCH ON FULTON STREET. The WToolvorth Five and Ten Cent syn dicate opened its new store at 532 and 534 Fulton street with an attendance that swarmed into and filled the place In five min utes after the doors had been opened at o'clock. The unique nature of the syndicate's Stores that have been opened in thirty two of the largest cities in the Eastern, Southern and middle states is that not an article in the stores costs more than 5 or 10 cents each. Among these cities are Watertown, N.

where the parent store 'was started; Lancaster. Reading, Easton, Harrisburg and Bethlehem, Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Utica, Schenectady, Syracuse and Rochester. N. AVilmington, New Haven and Bridgeport, Springfield, Worcester and Holyoke, Manchester. N.

Trenton, Paterson, Newark and Jersey City, N. J. Norfolk and Richmond, and Washington, D. C. F.

W. Wool worth began business life with the firm of Moore Smith, in Watertown, eighteen years ago, a clerk in their dry goods store, and soon afterward started for himself in a five cent store in Utica, with tin, glassware and crockery picked up in job lots. "When he had made S30 clear he at once spent 45 fitting up a similar place in Lancaster, Pa. He borrowed $30) to get stock and on the first day sold 5127 worth. He telegraphed to Moore for more stock and worth was sent on.

He was In debt for it, hut soon cleared expenses. As time passed and more stores were established it was found that not enough five cent goods could be bought and ten cent goods were dealt in. From that time Mr. Woolworth, who had stuck to his Idea after the others had dropped out. began to prosper.

He told an Eagle reporter this morning that be had been looking for a central location cn Fulton street for five years and had just struck it. All the business with customers is done on the ground floor. On the left side are ten cent goods and on the right, five cent goods. The imported wares are made in Germany and England especially for the syndicate stores, ami the reason for the low prices is that all ihe wares are bought in large quantities and sold for cash. In this wav quick returns are obtained.

There were nearly 150 sales girls behind the counters working like heavers selling kitchen wares of all kinds, confectionery, Christmas tree decorations, glass, china, dry goods, toilet a ti cles and a thousand and one things that would set up in housekeeping an economical young couple. Everything Is in and the price of each article is shown in big placards. GOING TO AUGUSTA. GA. THE REV.

H. DAVIDSON TO BE RECTOR OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH. The Rev. Hunter Davidson, who has been the assistant at Christ church, Clinton street, the Rev. A.

B. Kinsolving, rector, has co cepted a call to the Church of the Good Shepherd, Augusta. where he will assume charge on the first Sunday in Advent. During Mr. Davidson's year and a half in Brooklyn he has labored earnestly and faithfully and his genial face and kindly sympathy will be sadly missed when he goes away.

Manv fond wishes mingled with sad rogrets follow him to his new home. His leve fur Brooklyn is probably one of the reasons for his declining several other cai's which have come to him while here. He goes to the finest churches in the stale of Georgia, situated on the hills whose salubrious mate is well known to many Northerners tis a health resort. Beside being a beautiful building, picturesquely situated and well equipped for parish work, it is well known as the church from whicb Bishop Weed of Florida was called to the eoiscopate anil Archdeacon Walton was taken to his larger field of labor. The Rev E.

M. Stives, the well known rector of Grace church. Chicago, was also called from this parish to his present important charge. RAILROAD REPORTS. EARNINGS OF THE PROSPECT PARK AND ROCKAWAY BEACH COMPANIES.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany, N. November 1C The fcllowing vicinity railroad companies have jiut filed reports with the railroad commissioners for the quarter ending September 3D: THOSPRL'T pakk and wnkv island. iv.4. Grcss 171. 1: SSI.II 11., i2 OperatlnK expenses 1V.M1 n.

i. 10.7:1s Net earnings Cither Incume Oruss lucerne Fixed churirt iuct.ni Tl em ru! Ittncc sheet S1.420.4n. IncIu.iir.K SI. 1:1:1. cm equipment O.Tcs ciush iiniifl llCCV USiSet.

of roads and n.l SKii.rtS ir.nt il lost, tlciw.eney. 1 cn. I $: ''in'); income Ijun ls. fuifl. NICV YORK AND KOi it i.K.VB.

Gross oarninKs IT1 JU 'l'tratinp expenses five: Ci.i.0! Net earniinrs 31G.211 i other Income Tin i Gr.iss inccii'. i lio.li'T .4 Kiied charges n.l::: Net Income I'll. g.i.4 The pener. bnhince sheet shows assets nT Stl.uKI.SCS, incltitlinit eH.SIiD.r.lit; cost of ronds an. I equipment: Slc.l'Jl t'ajlt on lianil.

and SI'). 27 1 prollt anil loss, deSieiency. The capital stuck Is $1,0.10.000 and funded debt jl.i'S4.l;..)a. SUING THE SEA BEACH. VICTIMS OF THE LABOR DAY DISASTER ASK HEAVY DAMAGES.

More than sixty suits for damages aggregating almost $1,000,000 have been ssun against the New York and Sea Beach Railroad company by those injured in the wreck near Bensonhurst on labor day. Of the cases the first to be called for trial Is that of Mrs. Catherine Cooney, who is in the Norwegian hospital suffering from a broken leg. Her case is on the December calendar of the supreme court. She sues for $25,000.

Another action is that of the family of William Poinier of Newark, who died from his Injuries a wetk after the accident. His family demands $50, 000 damages. The road's defense will be that It was not guilty of negligence and therefor not responsible for flaTTiigpg, Man, Made Well body, invite rheumatism. Just as they do neu ralgia and nervous debility. There is no surer starting point for rheumatism than a "run down," nerveless condition.

Paine's celery compound increases the appetite by giving a healthy tone to the stom ach; it makes sure that the entire nervous system gets completely nourished. It regu lates the bowels and the kidneys and encourages them to get rid of harmful and poisonous matter that the sluggish system has allowed to lodge in the blood, thus causing rheumatism and kindred disorders. You cannot cure rheumatism by outward applications. The disease is due to internal disorder and must bo constitutionally attacked and get rid of. Paine's celeryoompound has done for thousands of other people exactly what it did for Mr.

Lewis. They were sufferers as he was, and the compound has made them well. The warmest praises of Paine's celery compound are from men and women of high moral character and keen intelligence. They know they are doing a work of humanity and mercy in commending to all persons out of health this certain and speedy means of getting strong and well. Urown: Psnlm 150.

Humphreys; Mnirnlflcat In C. I.e. anthem, "Jerusalem," from Gounod's hymn No. Te Deum In Kotz sehmnr: postlmle. scherzo.

Renaud. Incidental solos will be suns by Miss Ida A. Martin and J. H. stokes.

ai i. cnuren. on the Heights, the Rev. Koese F. Alsop.

I). rector, the organist, Mr. Walter Henry Hull, has prepared the following li programme for to nu)rrow evening: Prelude In major, Mendelssohn; processional hymn, "Glorious 'fhinirs," jeune; Psalms 123. 121, Cathedral Psalter: Majrnlfleat and Nunc. Dimlttis In Dr.

G. C. Martin: anthem, "Kn fol.l ye portals." Gounod; offertorlum. "It Shall C. me to I'ass," Gaul: hymns Nos.

632. 4y3. 432: postlude, fupue in major, Mendelssohn. At St. Anthiny's R.

C. church. Greenpolnt, the Rev. F. O'Hara, rector, the choir, under the tlirectlon of Joseph A.

Cami bell, organist, will be heard in the following vesper programme to mor row evening: Prelude, offertory In minor, Batiste; Domlne ad Adjuvandum. Dixit Dominus. Giorza; Laudate Puerl, Gregorian, to be sung by the chancel choir; Laudute Dominum and Magnificat. Giorza: Salve Regina, chancel choir: Salutaris. Hargltt, bass solo to be sung by C.

vtallmann; Taiuum Ergo, Rosewig: postlude. "Cornelius March." Mendelssohn. At St. Mark's 1. K.

church. Adelphi street, the Rev. Spencer S. Roche, rector, the choir, under the direction of Mr. Albert K.

Greenhalg. organ I iet. will render the following row evening, assisted bv Mr. Wllli. (Vninn the well known tenor of New York city, and Mr! 1 K.Uvard Hopke.

violinist: I'rocessional hymn No! Magnitieat and Nunc Dimlttis in A flat, Mann; anthem, "By Babylon's Wave." Gounod' tenor solo, sound an Alarm." Handel, to be I Jtobert It. Meredith, D. past. a Mr. Lewis orgjtnist, has arranged the following pro gramme for to nuirrow evening: Prelude.

"Medi tation, lagler; anthem. "Rejoice in the Calkin; anthem, "The Lord is Mv Shepherd I Vr. quartet, "l.owly at Thine Altar," Hans 1 com jiostlude, Prout. At st. lioni.

Aquinns' chur. ii, Fourth avenue and Ninth street, the Rev. James Donohue, pas tor, the eiioir programme for the vesper service ovenine win ineiti.ie the rollowinp numbers under the direction of H. Downs, organist: Prelude. Andante, Batiste; Domine.

Dixit Dominus. Miliard; Laudate Dominum, incur. "Sacred Heart Hvnm congregation: St.e M.kIo Vivitur." Parker, from the "Hora Novissima." to be sung by Mr. Rlch uiu aiuiaris; lantum lrgo, ton weber: postluue. inareli, At the Kninianu Rtiptist ehureli, IafayettQ; UOe, lO luoJIOW ftenillg the eiioir.

undei' the direction of G. Waring Stebblns. will sing the following: Introit, "The Path of The Rob rls: lir.rtinm nn.r solo and chorus. "Love the or Id." Sulll van sue. ley.

to no sung ay Ilattie Sweeney; ascription, soprano si.1,1. ine Penitent. "Whitney Coombs, to be bv Miss Julia Terrell. At the Church of St. Agnes, ll.iti and Packett streets, the It.

v. James s. Duffy, rector, the ch. lr sing tne renewing music to morrow evening under th of 1 ir. R.

w. Crowe: Domino ail Ad.iiiva.n ium. Dixit Dominus, Laudato Dominum and Marzo; bass solo, Mr. Emil S. nger.

me I.ieus," Dudley Buck; luuituio.i. "Salve Regina," by the choir: congregational hymns; organ prelude, march in major. Chuissiuiinn; postlude. Fugue In minor, J. S.

Bach. Th services at the Church of the Hoiy Rosary. Chauncey street, near Held iivvnue, Rev. D. Monteverdi, rector, will at 7 p.

M. following music will In ron l. t. ijverture, organ, R. Wagner: vespers.

No. 1. min(ir, Marzo; iAtn by chorus. K. Marzo; Dixit I loininus.

cliei us. E. M.irzo; Junivlt, bass solo, .1 J. Bvrii (F. Baudate Dominum.

chorus tE. Magnificat, soprano solo and chorus. dolHt. Mrs. A.

Butb (E. Marzo); Qui a rspexlt. alt', Mrs. .1. Kootigh iE.

Marzo): s. rmon; Salve Regina. baritone J. J. Ryrno Salutarls.

quartet (Rossinli. Mrs. A. llutier. Mrs.

J. Keoinh. li. Worani. J.

.1. hlvrne; Tantum Ergo, tenor solo and quartet (F. Si'lasi. soloist. H.

"Woi am: march. "Rellgleuse" 'Benolstb organ. The above as arranged will be rendered by four quartets of selected voices. The solos will be interpreted by Mrs. A.

Butler, soprano; Mrs. J. C. Keough, contralto; H. Woram, tenor; J.

J. Byrne, bass. initiated can understand. That sort of writing does not commend Itself to plain people. The next step, therefore, was to get the specialist to write in a popular style.

That has been accomplished, so that in this age of the world the man who writes for a general audience and confines himself to technical terms is laughed at. It should be borne in mind that there has been as great an advance in the art of cyclopedia making in the past ten years as In other sciences. Work that was satisfactory a decade ago would not be tolerated to day. Pages would be necessary to tell how the work is carried on to day. to describe the army of editors who are engaged upon the different departments of the work.

Look, for instance, at the army of experts and specialists, drawn from almost every walk and avocation in life, who have been engaged in the preparation of this revised edition of Johnson's work. There are over three thousand of them. They include college presidents, and professors, eminent lawyers and statesmen, great publicists, physicians, scientists, bankers, manufacturers, business men, even village editors, who have been called In to write about the town or county where they publish their weekly papers. Whenever an article was wanted on a certain topic, the editors called upon the man who was best qualified to write about It. It did not matter who he was, the best information must be obtained, and this rule was adhered to in all branches, whether it was theology, chemistry, International law or the making of hats.

When the editors wanted an article on hats they went to Dunlap. It was pretty certain that what he did not know about hats was not worth knowing. In like manner, Plllsbury, of the great Minnesota milling family, revises the article on flour. Wiley, the chemist of the department on agri Slture, writes on sugar and sugar making. Xo man In the country knows more about it than he does.

The same system has been carried out in every article. These things show, certainly, that great care has been used in the preparation of the matter found in these volumes and it shows that the new edition answers to the test of accuracy. It is interesting to note the system of supervision that has been employed In directing the work. Necessarily, a large amount of editorial supervision was necessary to look after so large a staff of correspondents. At the head of the staff of editors is Dr.

Charles Kendall Adams, president of the University of Wisconsin, and who has Bpecial charge of history, politics and education. Then there are thirty six associate editors. Each one has charge of some special department. All of them are men of well known reputations whose dictum would be accepted upon any questions which might be submitted to them. It is interesting, also, to name some of the men who write upon special subjects and it is surprising to note how many of them are names well known in the fields of literature, science and economics.

For instance, the department of mathematics and astronomy is under the odKxirial direction of Professor Simon Newcomb of Johns Hopkins university; Professor Remsen looks after chemistry; Professor Harrington of the weather bureau handles the subject of climatology, and he also has charge of politic al and descriptive geography. Among his col laborators In this field is Mr. Cyrus C. Adams of the Brooklyn institute. In the department of anthropology.

Major Powell of the United States geological survey has charge of that portion of the department which relates to American archaeology and ethnology. Philology is in charge of Professor Benjamin Ide Wneeler of Cornell; English literature, Pro fessor Henry A. Beers of Yaln; navigation and naval science. Rear Admiral Luce; medicine and surgery has been looked after by a corps of well known physicians and surgeons Buck has had charge of music: Charles M. Pratt writes about the Pratt institute; David A.

Wells writes about free trade; Robert Ellis Thompson of Philadelphia on protection; the article on the Republican party Is written by Senator Cabot Iodge of Massachusetts, and the article on the Democratic party is by ex Oongressman Breckinridge of Kentucky Bishop Keene of the Catholic university writes about matters relative to the Catholic church, bo we might go on for many pages naming the men of eminence in the various dupart.nu of thought and activity who have assisted in the work of preparing these articles, but in a roll call of over three thousand names, it is impossible to do more than indicate the general character. Another striking feature of this work, and one which especially demands attention, Is the scope of the articles, the classifications and sub divisions, the hroad range of treatment and the thoroughness with which every subject is handled. Take, for instance, the subject of law. This is a two fold department; first, municipal, civil and constitutional law, and second, international law In the first division the articles were originally prepared by Professor Dwight and Professor Chase of the Columbia College Law school, and Professor Norton Pomeroy of California, and on international law by President Theodore D. Woolsey of Yale.

The latter was so eminent an authority that his work only needed to be revised and supplemented by Professor Theodore S. Woolsey, now holding nr int.rin.iini.iii late vi subject is under a new and much more prac tical and convenient classification of articles. The other work 011 law, which had already hwn revised several times, contains the hest thought of Professor Dwight of Columbia Law school, supplemented by a large number of new articles by the present professors of the law school and the school of political science in Columbia, Monroe Smith. F. M.

Burdick, George W. Kirshway and others. Including F. Sturgis Allen of the New York bar. Commercial and monetary subjects are treated by Professor Hadley of Yale and other specialists under his supervision.

Another interesting feature is the presentation of the rival views of the same subject. For instance, there are two nrticles on evolution, one by Dawson, giving the conservative view of the subject, and the other by KIngsley, presenting the newer views. In this way the reader gets at the latest thought on both sides of the subject. The silver question is treated by Horace White and President Andrews of Brown university, each a leader on the respective sides of the question. Another feature the work is its American biography, one of the most essential requis ites 111 a cycioieum 101 i icm: readers.

The gazetteer feature of the work 1 especially worthy of notice for its completeness and conciseness. The information is obtained at first hand, oftentimes from residents in the town who sign the article, even though it may not extend more than a dozen lines. It often happens that the seeker after information would be glad of hints which will en ablo him to prosecute his researches in some special subject farther than is given In the cyclopedia. In that case he finds himself very well served in these volumes, for at the end of every article of importance he will find a full bibliography of the subject, telling him what are the latest books on that theme, and if it is a question about which there is any controversy he will find the books indicated which give both sides of the question, without bias or favor. Too much cannot be said In praise of this feature of the work.

To go back a little and take up the question of a guarantee as to accuracy. The purchaser possesses it in this work to a degree never before equaled in this country. It is hot enough that, the article should be written by an expert, the public must feel assured of accuracy. That is given in this case by the fact that nearly all the articles, certainly all of importance, whether long or short, are signed by the writers. Professor Newcomb signs even his briefest articles.

Professor Hadley of Vale signs what lie has written on his specialty, and the editor of the Wayne Independent, who writes about the city of Honesdale. where his paper is published, signs his article, as does Professor Wheeler his brief article on prepositions. It is only a few lines, but it is just as important that it should be accurate and that the reader should know it, as that he should have confidence that the articles on commercial law or any large subject are exact. In cases where the that he wants to know about, and signed by a trustworthy specialist. The series on business matters is extensive in number and variety.

The aim has evidently been to make a cyclopedia which should be constantly available in dally and business life. Measured by all the standards which test the qualities and value of a cyclopedia, this now edition of Johnson must be held to meet all practical requirement. Close examiration shows it to be remarkably free from errors. while the weight and character of the men who have contributed the leading articles, and the small ones as well, prove that the publishers have spared neither time nor expense to produce a work which should be without a peer in this country. It speaks for American scholarship in a way that must command at tention in the Old World.

A work of this merit would scarcely have been possible in the United States twenty years ago. That It lias been achieved in the superb way which characterizes this cyclopedia is a proud thing for American culture and intelligence and practical ability in these fin de siecle years. In the Book World. The Streets Forty Years Ago, the Last Day of the Empire, the Entry of the Germans, and the Opera, are some of the chapters in "Some Memories of Paris" (from Blackwood's), about to be issued by Messrs. Henry Holt Co.

Ginn Co. of Boston are about issuing a new edition of Grimm's "Fairy Tales," in two volumes, edited by Sara E. Wlltse, in their Classics for Children series. A "Life of Christ" is soon to be published at Tours, France, which will be one of the most expensive books ever issued. One thou sand and ten copies are to be printed, whereof the first twenty will be sold for $1,000 each and the remaining nine hundred and ninety for S300 each.

The book will have nearly four hundred illustrations reproduced in color from the paintings of James Tissot, upon the production of which he has been engaged for ten years. Through a special concession the Century Magazine will reproduce twelve of these pictures in its Christmas number. The publication by the J. B. Lippincott company of Owen Hall's first novel, "The Track of a Storm," has developed the fact that this gifted magazinlst has been masking under a nom de plume.

He is an Englishman who has been for many years a traveler in the far East, has been a member of the New Zealand parliament and a student of the British dominions in the Pacific. Hence the knowledge of these regions shown in his story, which shifts from the England of a generation ago to the penal settlements of the East. A new and corrected edition of "Mental Development in the Child and the Race," by froressor J. Mark uaidwin of Princeton, will be published at once by Macmlllan Co. The new volumes in the edition of the novels of Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett and published by Macmlllan contain A Sportsman's Sketches." Turgenev began his literary career and won an enormous popularity in Russia bv his sketches from life.

These volumes contain some of the best of his short stories. G. P. Putnam bons will publish immedi ately, in co operation with Mr. Heinemann of London, "Poems of Pathos and Delight," by Coventry Patmore.

This volume represents a selection, made under the editor diree tion, of the poems in which he has, to use the editor's language, dealt with two things, de light and sorrow, those human and intelligible passions to which all real poetry has access, but which this poetry touches so close as to be mingled with them and changed into them. The Rev. R. P. Ashe will soon publish through Anson D.

Jj Kandolph Co. Chron icles of Uganda," which will be full of inter esting matter pertaiuing to that country. The second number of the "Progress of the World," the new magazine of up to date general information, makes its appearance this week and is fully up to the standard fixed by the initial number. Among the not able articles of the November issue is an excelleut and simple explanation of the Mon roe doctrine, showing the source of the pres ent wide ditference 01 opinion on the meaning and application of that famous principle Numerous interesting inventions and scien tific discoveries are described, accompanied by good illustrations. Among the leading ar tides is one by Miss Anna Tolman Smith of the bureau of education at Washington, in which that well known specialist shows the important results of grading school children by the new psychological tests.

Ihe depart inents of finance, commerce, art and iiter.i ture sum up entertainingly the month's news in those lields. The passion for dainty volumes naturally has seized upon the poets, and some of the most artistic specimens of the bookbinder's mystery have encased volumes of poems this autumn. A new one Is announced, "Folia I Dispersa. unoer which titie tne conecteu po ems uf Cranston Lawton are to be 1 published in a miniature edition limited to five hundred copies, numbered and signed by the author and illustrated in outline by Caroline S. King.

it comes from the Corcll press, in New York. About half the poems are printed for the first time. The little volume will be as exquisite as paper and type can make it. Not long before his death the poet Longfellow told Hezeklah Butterworth one evening in his library how he came to write "The Psalm of Life," "The Bridge," "Excelsior," "Hiawatha." "The Old Clock on the Stairs" and some of his other great poems. Mr.

Butterworth has now embodied the evening's talk in an article on "How Longfellow Wrote His Best Known Poems," which the Ladies' Home Jorunal will publish in its next number. The Christmas Scribner will have a short story from Frank Stockton. "The Staying Power of Sir Rohan," illustrated by Peter Newell. The Equal Suffrage calendar, published by E. Scott New York, consists of a pad In the center of a neatly designed board.

harmonious in tono and proportion. It published in the interest of the Equal Suffrage cause, and each leaflet contains, a passage bearing upon the subject by some prominent auflior. The Century announcements lor the coming year present an attractive programme. A leading feature is Mrs. Humphrys Ward's new story, "Sir George which began in the November number.

There was a very spirited bidding for this novel on the part of several prominent publishers, with the result that the author will probably realize from the serial and book rights of it one of the largest sums that has yet been given for a work of fiction in the English language. The story descrlbes life In an English country house, and also touches somewhat upon industrial questions. It will be the leading feature in fiction for the coming twelve months, other and shorter novels being contributed by W. D. Howells, F.

Hopkinson Smith. Mary Halloek Foots and Amelia E. Barr. There will also be contributions from Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling (the latter furnishing to the Christmas Century one of the best stories he has ever written): a series of articles on the great naval engagements of Nelson, by Captain Alfred T. Ma ban, author of "Influence of Sea Power Upon History:" three articles on Rome, contributed by Marion Crawford, and illustrated by Castaigne.

who made the famous world fair pictures in the Century; a series of articles by George Kcnnan. author of "Siberia and the Exile System." on the mountains and mountaineers of the Eastern Caucasus, describing a little known people; articles by Henry M. Stanley and the late E. J. Glave on Africa; a series of papers on "The Administration of the Cities of the United States," by Dr.

Albert Shaw. The Century will also contain during the year a great number of papers on art subjects, richly illustrated. The "Life of Napoleon," by Professor Sloane, will be continued during the year. tism. "It made my days and nights miserable," he says, "and, of course, the agony was greater in bad weather.

At the same time my nerves were weak, and I was in worse shape than I hope ever to be again. Yes; I took advice by the yard and medicine by the quart with no success. I was broken In spirit and bent almost double in the body, when somebody suggested Paine's celery compound for the nervousness. That remedy made short work of the nervousousnoss and of the rheumatism, too. A few doses made me feel much better, and to day I am well; a happy change that I attribute to the use of Paino's celery compound.

It gives me sincere pleasure to bear witness on the merits of the compound. I know at least a dozen authors and journalists who have lound it a remedy for the same complaints." Rheumatism attacks the body when it is tired out, and when its functions begin to act sluggishly. Disordered nerves, faulty digestion and a slow, incomplete nutrition of the at St. Amusam 's H. C.

church. Sixth avenue and Sterhns pkice, the Row I V. McCnrty. rec t'. r.

stuii.lf.y, November 17. at 7:30, under the dl re. i .1. Ji.s. i.ii Hessh.n.

organist ond direct I Prelude, Overture to "William ini; psalms. Ct nei tli MaKnifleat, Gen Tali: Yeni i eiuer; stive liwina, chick; i'r. We iner oont i ito t. uiiK by Miss Maud Welch; duet, li be sunt: by Messrs. j.

i and William H. 'fa return Iter, with s.e by Mine. Marie Saivr tti; march, "yuet of rilu ba." Gounwl. T. eveninir at the Church of th" Incnr Gates, near C'la sson avenue, the Rev.

G. I). 1 rector, the choir, under the re i of Mr. Ivlwin William Hnty. will render I the following selections: l'i hymn.

une; ix sponses. Stainer; Glorias. Tallis; Cnnlaf; i Dr. John Smith; Miser. atur A 1 Buck; anthem.

r.ruy for tlie i eace of JrusaU Thome: hymn, i'unihy; ascription. iaiiis; offeru. ry, "Saviour, source of ry vi ing," Wallace; recessiona Vua d. Choir of forty men and women. At the German Duthenui Zlon church, the Rev.

E. J. KraelinK. pastor, the music to morrow evoning. under the dir tion of Mr.

Carl Fiqne. will Include the following selections: Pre Illd ret itrtti ee arid nrin. "Sing to the Ijord it new song." 'lque; baritone solo, to Ix? stuig by Conrad Meyer; pos tlude. IVthoven. At St.

Stephen's R. C. church, corner of Sum mil lllcks streets, the Rev. M. T.

Kilahy, r. i the following programme has been pro ar. for the vesper service to morrow evening 1 I r. F. organist: Domlne ad Adju van.lum.

Le Jeal; Dixit Dominus. Haydn; Lau oaie i m. i.e nymn. i.i;;:ia terra. Mr.

Charles 3. Lewis is more familiarly I known to the thousands whose life he has cheered as SI. Quad. It must be more than a score of years since the country was laughing over the sayings of his honor and Bijah, chronicled by Mr. Lewis to the Detroit Free Press.

From that time until now II. Quad has delighted the public with unnnmbored quaint sketches of character, overflowing with a humor that appealed to readers all the more strongly because they recognized the fidelity to life under the fun. Among Mr. Lewis' recent creations the Bowsers, Brother Gardiner, Mrs. Gallup's Tribulations, 'Possum Sketches, and the Arizona Kicker are destined to long life.

Mr. Lewis' admirers will be. surprised to learn that, like 'Walter Scott, Mark Twain and other highly gifted authors, he has produced work of rare quality while tormented by pain. Mr. Lewis suffered intensely from rheuma MUSIC AT EVENING SERVICES.

5VHAT SOME CHURCH CHOIRS AND SOLOISTS WILL SING TO MORROW. Choir directors are requested to give the Barnes of singers of solo rinds trins etc I singers of solus, duets, trios, where they occur on the programme, instead repeating tne names ol the entire choir at i the end of their communications. To insure DUblicatJon their conv should in the nr In I office by noon of the Friday preceding the same. i Several Interesting programmes will be tound in the shape of musical services, the leading feature of which will be a rendi i tion of Dudley Buck's new cantata. "The Com big of the King," by the choir of the Lafayette i avenue church.

Special musical services wiil 1 also be given by the choirs of the Summer field M. E. church. First Reformed church. faeventb avenue and the Park Congregational church.

Sixth avenue and Seventh street. A special service of sons; will 1 itiven tomorrow evening at the SummeriK M. K. church, oorner Wahinton and G. eene avenu the rtev.

Herbert Welch. i jstcr. by the choir, under the direction of William S. Haskell, the following pr sramme will Pre lude, bridal music, Jensen: anthem, "The Ijerd 1 Ie Klnst," Ma.rs response. "The Lord is Jiepljerd," Kcschat; du l.

"The Vesper Hour." Shelley, to be sunjr by Miss Wey. rs and MIs Couch; anthem hymn, "Kventl i. offertory, tenor solo, "The Holy 'Uy, ns. Bimg by Mr. Angus; hymn, Jesus is T.i chorus, Dul.jls.

At the Classon avenue Presbyterian c'c. Jr Rev. Joseph Dunn BuiTill. i asto: i. tire directir.n It.

W. i i.ll. t. n. be heard in these ns to j.

r. Prelude, "Prayer." 1 G. iu i 1 a day," choir Ti.e Js past and over," Marks; postdud, mac h. Guli Exia nt. At the Xew avenue M.

K. chur h. th Rev. M. li.

Ch I. past ir. the under the or Ray Tyler, will beard in the toilowinc proramm of ji. morrow evening: Mtditati ir. Jor, H.

Bar: 'i 0aens; response. Lord's I'ra r. ar.ti. "The radiant morn a.vay." Ward; offertory, trio f. r.

lobe sung by Miss Walk. r. and DOTH3, us spirit, postlude, grand chorus ri: OullnuLBt. At the CervtraJ CfngTeg.ttion.tl ehw rtreet, near Franklin av. nne.

1: Behrenda, D. th? Kr. UUde direction of Dr. Henry Han 1 tile following selections at th venlng: Prelude, cond M.oi:..u minor, Gullmant; antl Of day," Ilsley; duet, "Gl ry to Blffht," Gounod, to be sum? Toffey end Miss ra Gladys Ho: tlon, "Hail tralQUil hour of ipana, bass solo by Mr. H.

ir. quartet; postlude. Allegretto in ma r. At the First Reformed huron, slid Carroll street, th R. v.

1 T. paitor, the choir r.i;; Beleotlctns from Gaui's Aacred r.tata. Olty." to mormw evening, nn lire H. E. H.

Benedict, rg. unlst 1m 'i ion. tenor solo ar.d quartet, "No Shado.vs Vo eoprano sxIo, "These are they which came" soprano and contralto, "They shall hum contralto solo, "Kye Hath Not 'e oolo, "My soul Is athirst for (Jon" plai ut fining Pot is for silver." The t.s .11 11. 2ilarle Downey, sopi ano; Mrs. Webber, tralto; llr.

B. M. Chitse, tenor; Mr. E. C.

Chapin StW followlns musical selections will be rendered I urt to be sung by l.reanun; Mag sung by Mr. Courtney; vlol.in solo, se nllicat. Kmmerich. alto s. lo.

i be sung by Miss lected. Mr. William Hopke; recessional hymn No. a. ulphonal.

"Salve Regina." Von YI1 GO. h. m. by Miss Salctaris. Nov.

At the Tompkins avenue Congregational church, tenor solo, to be sung by Hughes; Tan Tompkins avenue and McDonough str et. the Rev! turn Ergo, O. ogorlan. A musical service will be given to evening at the Park Congregational iuif h. co: of Sixth avenue and tenth the Rev.

Robert Crawford Hulloek. Ph.D.. past. the following programme will he del ed by i.oir. untier the direotlun of lier bcrt S.

organist: Prelude, violin and organ. Andante Religi so. Tiiome, vbdin by Mr. G. h.y:: Xo.

I. w.cT; quartet and chorus. "He shall come down lik" in." Buck contrailo as I am." il rti. awtsy," I ruby soprano "I will ox iol Tiici frooi Xi." to sung by yiuri No. 101.

I' from 'la it: and organ. Idith Burrell; i nn 1 ''ele: chorus. "Thme is the king inl's "Holy off' rt oire. vio "Ave Maria," Scirob. rt chorus, th gllaling pillar." Gaul's eiward I.

rael chorus. I. Father, keep us in Toy care," Ir r.sponse; Church of 1 l.ady of I'ebevotse near DeKalb av. nue. the Rev.

It. S. Foley, lioir. 1. 1 the line.

A. M. nd. the e. "I I'U iteUi." ti ndtmi.

Dixit 1 "onilie.is. organist, will 7:40 1. M. Pi. la.

Domine ad A.i.i ite Jioinir.um Ill Uf gina." rate M. k. Magnificat. Solo and qllar: I Saluta: i. Tan I rail: r.

tries Mo Fils: I audap. 1 1 ir'ie. Allegro I.eb. au. Lafayette avenue Pre by teri tin char.

11. cor Seiltii 1 i. ford sire. P.ev. In vil Lt 1 I'lldb Buck's v.

sac. can'a I tile King." will be given one by the choir, und the direction I Brewer, to morrow evening, 'i'ii i 'I! I' Miss Marie Van. Mrs. Ituland. contralto: tenor, and Fred ric Iteddail.

b. iin It. Willi.t: 'sn. assisted a oh.e us thirty live voices. T.

,0: ov ev. nlnc the choir of St. chunh, Carrol! park, will be heard in these selection. under the direction of Miss Isabel Iler rall, organist: Prelude, "Cantilene. balome: so! emu processional hymn.

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