charming individuality. The story is an entertaining and well balanced narrative of what might occur in the life of any Mr. and Mrs. Wickett and if the wife was as sensible and unselfish as Molly there could only be one outcome, and that the author has truly and delightfully por trayed. "After Thirty," The Century Company. BOOK NOTES FROM THE CENTURY COMPANY Ever since the appearance of a novel by a nine-year-old worldly child, there has been no peace for the musty, cobwebbed attics and dust-covered ancient trunks of this land. And judging from the treasures that are being salvaged daily from the depths of these antiquated chests, it seems that nearly every member of the past generation started our upon the road of life as an author and most of them failed to "arrive" because there was no James Barrie, in those days, to encourage and act as agents for these small tempermental artists. Among the most recent discoveries of early unpublished manuscripts is Jeremy Lane, who was one of the exceptions. Taking no one's advice, he continued his literary endeavors and made good. He is the author of "Yellow Men Sleep," recently published by The Century Co. Referring to his collection of worn and almost illegible manuscripts, he says, "I was writing short stories and plays all the while, from my fifth year, but nothing happened until I tried novelettes and a novel." Another recent visitor, whose early work passed unnoticed and unappreciated to an untimely resting place, is Edith Ballinger Price, author of "Blue Magic" (The Century Co.). Mrs. Price found during her last attic hunt, a book of sketches which she executed at the age of eight to illustrate a poem, or a story, or it might have been a novel-she is not sure now just which it was-that she was plotting at that time. One of these sketches is of a very stirring scene involving a handsome (?) soldier. The caption of this picture was : "He was groping in the tobacco jar as I entered, and looked up shuddering like an aspen leaf!" One does not, as a rule, think of an officer of the U. S. Navy as being a great inventor. To the general public, an officer of the navy is an officer of the navy and nothing more, or less. However, Rear-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, author of "From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral,” just published by The Century Co., is an inventor of the first rank. Few outside of the circle of his most intimate professional associates realize how many successful and important inventions Admiral Fiske has to his credit. Since the day of his childhood upon which he asked his father what an inventor was, he has invented a sleeve button, a typewriter "which did not work very well," a mechanical pencil (from which he received a royalty of $1,000 that emboldened him to marry), an electric log, a magazine rifle, a range-finder, an improved stock ticker, a further development of his range-finder, an automatic machine gun (the patent of which he allowed to lapse and the principle of which it is stated is now the basis of the Browning gun), a stadimeter, an electric motor that was developed into the electric ammunition-hoist, a method of pointing a gun at sea, a telescopic sight for a ship's guns, a practical application of electricity to moving turrets, a helm. indicator, steering telegraph, engine telegraph, speed and direction indicator, position-finder, signaling apparatus sounding machine, an electric wireless scheme, a turbine-driven torpedo, naval telescope and mount, combined rangefinder and turret, and a horizometer. 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