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The man's joy when the child really began to walk, began to play with his dog and his pony, was equaled only by that of the Empress. For the first time in her life in Russia she was happy. Do you blame her, do you blame me, for being grateful to Rasputin? Whether he cured him or God cured him I know no more than you do. But Rasputin told us what was going to happen, and when it was going to happen. Make of it what you will." Rasputin told the Empress of Russia that her son would begin to improve when he was twelve years old. Almost any doctor might have told her that it was not unlikely that he would begin to improve as soon as adolescence began. Many childish weaknesses, and even some very grave constitutional weaknesses, have been known to disappear gradually from that period. Empresses and ladies-inwaiting are not usually medical experts, but they might have learned that much from ordinary reading, if the doctors failed to enlighten them. But neither Alexandra nor Virubova knew it, and when Rasputin threw that gigantic bluff at them they grabbed it. As a guesser Rasputin was a wonder, for the almost impossible happened and the sick little Czarevitch lived up to his prediction. That's what I make of it. The second extract throws a curious light on the Czarina's literary taste. Madame Virubova said: THE CENSUS BUREAU In an account of the punching, sorting, and tabulating machines used by the Census Bureau, The Outlook, last October, said that these machines had been invented and designed by employees of the Census Bureau. A correspondent has written us asserting that the fundamental idea of such machines was contributed by Dr. Herman Hollerith, and our correspondent incloses a pamphlet by H. T. Newcomb, who was formerly Expert Chief of the Division of Agriculture in the office of the Twelfth Census. In that pamphlet reference is made to Dr. Hollerith's originating of this electrical method of tabulation. Dr. Hollerith, it may be said, had been in the service of the Federal Government, and was a special agent of the Tenth Census. It remains true, however, that the automatic tabulating machine was designed and constructed by the employees of the Census Bureau and made in the Bureau's laboratory, that the punching machine was invented and designed by an employee of the Census Bureau, and that the sorting machines were rebuilt, necessitating redesigning and a general new construction by the employees of the Census Bureau, and this work was done in the Bureau's laboratory. We are very glad to make this reference to Dr. Hollerith. THE EDITORS. 1 او The demand for White Fabrics indicates their popularity for the coming season. We have on hand every conceivable weave and weight for Blouses, Dresses, and Separate Skirts, as follows: Imported Dimities, 28 and 30 in. wide, 25c to 75 yd. Imported Dotted Swiss, 30 and 40 in. wide, 75c to $1.50 yd. Imported Madras, 32 in. wide, 35c to 75 yd. 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The One Who Dreamed. Songs and Lyrics. By Arthur Crew Inman. The Four Seas Company, Boston. $1.25. Poems. By Carroll Aikins. Sherman, French & Co., Boston. 75c. BIOGRAPHY Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln and War-Time Memories. By Ervin Chap man, D.D., LL.D. Introduction by Bishop John W. Hamilton. Illustrated. 2 vols. The Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. $5. The title-page is sufficiently descriptive. The book contains a good deal that is new. We had never seen before the matter here collected showing Lincoln's early de votion to the temperance cause appropri ate just at this juncture. The author makes more of the Jacquess-Gilmore mission to Jefferson Davis than do Nicolay and Hay in their biography, but, if he overestimates, the biographers have somewhat underestimated its importance. Dr. Chapman's style is somewhat discursive; his volumes would have gained by condensation; but they are not only interesting, they are a valuable addition to our acquaintance with one of the world's greatest and best of men. Mad Monk of Russia, Iliodor (The). Life, Memoirs, and Confessions of Sergei Michailo vich Trufanoff. Illustrated. The Century Company, New York. $2. Even the French Revolution furnishes no parallel to the story unfolded in this volume bearing on the Russian Revolution. - The New Books (Continued) RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY An interesting theological speculation. The author's conclusion differs in form of expression rather than in essentials of thought from the doctrine of the Divine Immanence, as held by a modern school of theologians the doctrine that the relation of the Divine Spirit to the world of matter more nearly resembles the relation of the human spirit to the human body than the relation of the mechanic to the machine which he makes and controls; and the relation of the Divine Spirit to the world of men more nearly resembles the relation of a father to his children than the relation of a king to his subjects; that is, God governs men by an influence molding their characters from within more than by laws and penalties controlling their conduct from without. Last Days of Jesus Christ (The). By Lyman Abbott. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 60c. This is a republication of the Lenten papers published last year in The Outlook, revised and partly rewritten by the author, each paper preceded by a selected poem and followed by a prayer. 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