‘Toby Tyler’ at the head of the list 
Isent. Trowbridge remains popular, 
and I guess Optic and Alger do, too, 
- although I never cared for Horatio’s 
“'s It always struck me as inane. 
“Tf he hadn’t written for grown- 
ups Mark Twain, in my opinion, 
would have been the best writer for 
juveniles. ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Hue- 
_kleberry Finn,’ I suppose, are read 
by every boy, and I think all enjoy 
_ their fun and kiddishness of the 
characters, but the books themselves 
are like ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ 
which has too much in it that only 
older ones can appreciate.”’ 
-_. Mr. Barbour was born in Cam- 
bridge, and notwithstanding his 
- yaried and extensive experiences is 
_ still on the sunny side of middle age. 
_ He enjoys himself all the year, and 
S'Stuill. 
‘a SOCIETY NOTES 
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a 
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stockton left 
~ Manchester the first of the week for 
a short visit to Poland Springs, Me. 
_ They will return next Monday. 
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Norman and 
party of eighteen went to the Har- 
- yard-Yale game last Saturday in a 
_ private coach attached to the first 
of the special trains leaving the So. 
ner were served in their car. 
Henry Davis Sleeper of Boston 
and East Gloucester will usher at the 
wedding of Miss Katherine Hall and 
_ W. S8.-Grosbeck Fowler to be cele- 
brated in the church of the Transfig- 
uration, New York, Thursday, Dec. 
8. 
Tomorrow John A. Tuckerman of 
Boston and Ipswich will give his 
‘bachelor dinner at the Tennis and 
Racquet club, Boston. His wedding 
to Miss Katherine Atterbury, will be 
solemnized in St. Thomas’ church, 
Saturday noon, Dec. 10. Among 
the guests at the dinner will be 
Charles and Francis Appleton of 
Boston and Ipswich. Mr. Tucker- 
man and his bride elect will winter 
in Boston. Next summer they will 
reside in Ipswich. 
Robert Wilson Hyde, the limner, 
who has been making an exhibition 
of his books, parchments, etc., at 
276 Boylston st., Boston, for the last 
- week, has met with such success that 
he has decided to continue for a few 
days more. From Boston Mr. Hyde 
goes to New York and by the first 
of February he expects to sail for 
‘Italy to spend the balance of the 
winter. In Rome he will join the 
Roger Noble Burnhams, who were 
‘ also on the North Shore the last sum- ~ 
Station. Breakfast, lunch and din-- 
-NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
for a large part of the time makes 
no effort to get down to work. This 
is his busy season. The fall and 
~ -winter—unless the weather gets too 
strenuous—find him in Cambridge 
where he lives in apartments that 
are studiously kept as a refined 
home, with no indication of author- 
ship about them. 
So long as football and other 
sports are active at Harvard he at- 
tends the athletic events with the re- 
gularity of the undergraduate, com- 
bining both business and pleasure, 
for the contests on Soldiers’ field 
give him many ideas for his stories. 
Walking the mile or so from his 
home to the field incidentally is 
about his only exercise. 
Part of the winter Mr. and Mrs. 
Barbour are likely to spend in the 
mer. The Burnhams sailed more 
than a month ago. Their trip was 
marked by a series of incidents in- 
cluding above all a rough voyage 
most of the way. An alarm of fire 
on board the liner and a suicide 
served to give variety to and break 
the monotony of the trip and they 
were glad to get a sight of land when 
they reached the Azores, but,—to 
add one more thing to the troubles 
of the trip they learned on reaching 
the dock of the Portugal revolution. 
They are now settled in Rome for 
the winter. 
Boston Opera House. 
Next week, the fourth of the Bos- 
ton Opera season, promises to be a 
glorious carnival of art as the reper- 
toire eclipses all previous efforts, em- 
bracing the foremost works from the 
Italian, French and Russian schools 
of opera. Every demand of the New 
England opera goer is being sup- 
plied by this wonderful organization 
under the direction of Mr. Henry 
Russell and each week brings forth 
some feature that overshadows its 
predecessor. 
On Monday evening, Nov. 28th, 
at 8 will be presented Il Barbiere di 
Siviglia in Italian by Rossini, with 
Lydia Lipkowska in the role of Ros- 
ina, and Florencio Constantino as the 
Count Almaviva. Leon Sibiriakoff 
will sing the part of Basilio. Others 
in the east will be Rodolfo Fornari as 
Figaro, Tavecchia as Doctor Bartolo, 
Anne Roberts as Bertha, Attilio Pul- 
cini as Fiorello and Ernesto Giaccone 
as Ufficiale. Arnaldo Conti will con- 
duct. 
Madama Butterfly in Italian by 
Puccini will be presented on Wednes- 
day evening at 8, with Alice Nielsea 
gy 
south or west, selecting the time so 
as to avoid the most disagreeable 
period here. Summers they enjoy at 
Manchester, where a couple of years 
-ago the author bought a place near 
the sea but 80 feet above it, offering 
a fine view of the ocean and having 
a house set among the trees. 
‘We have spent the summer for a 
good many years at East Gloucester 
in a bungalow we have there’’, said 
Mr. Barbour, ‘‘and swore we never 
would leave it. I picked up the 
Manchester place because it was on 
the market and was a dead bargain. 
Well, we tried it, and now won’t go 
anywhere else. We’ve got 11 acres 
there, and I’m going to build another 
house on the property next sum- 
mer.’ 
in the title role. Herman Jadlowker 
will sing the part of F. B. Pinkerton, 
Ramon Blanchart the part of Sharp- 
less, and Rita Fornia makes her first 
appearance with the Boston pera 
Company this season in the role of 
Suzuki and Jeska Swartz will take 
the part of Kate Pinkerton. Others 
in the cast will be Ernesto Giaccone. 
Attilio Puleini, Giuseppe Permi, 
John Morgan, Carmine Montella (de- 
but), C. Stroeseo, Marie Louise Ro- 
gers as Cio-Cio-San, Grace Fisher as 
La Zia, and Ruby Savage as La Cu- 
gina. Arnaldo Conti will conduct. 
Friday evening, Dec. 2d, at 8 a tri- 
ple bill will be presented L’Enfant 
Prodigue in French by Debussy, with 
Alice Nielsen as Lia, Robert Lassal- 
le as Azael, Ramon Blanchart as 
Simeon. Conductor Andre Caplet. 
Followed by the second tableau of 
the opera Der Geizige Ritter in Rus- 
sian, with George Baklanoff, the 
Russian baritone, as the Baron. Ar- 
naldo Conti will conduct. The third 
opera will be Mascagni’s one act 
opera in Italian Cavalleria Rustica- 
na. Carmen Melis will sing the part 
of Santuzza. John McCormack will 
make his debut with the Boston 
Opera Company as Turiddu. Others 
in the cast will be Janka Czaplinska, 
Anne Roberts, and Rodolfo Fornari 
Robert Moranozoni will conduct. 
The performance for the Satur- 
day matinee will be Faust in French 
by Gounod. Lillian Nordica, the 
greatest American soprano will take 
the part of Marguerite, Jadlowker 
as Faust, Sibiriakoff as Mephistof- 
eles, and Baklanoff as Valentine. 
Jeska Swartz will take the part of 
Siebel. Pierre Letol and Anne Ro- 
berts also appear. Caplet will con- 
duct, 
