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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1913.
THE SUNDAY SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS' REVIEW OF BOOKS
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"THE MAX FARTHEST DOWN" IS
tin Vfr t# i£j
LOOKING UP SAYS BOOKER
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Negro Educator's latest B<x>k Furnishes
T.
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New
Proof That South Is Black Man's Land Sub-
merged Classes of Europe Farther Down
Than the American Negro.
IT 's «•<! formula of she optimists th»t our own troubles often appear
trifling if viewed in the light of. and in comparison with, the trou-
bles of some other people we know. One cannot help feeling the truth of
this formula with respect to the peculiar problems of the South after read-
'nC "The Man Farthest Down," Booker T. Washington's latest book, in
which he analyzes the conditions in some of the European countries. While
he takes a wholesome and upward-looking view of the situation and the fu-
ture of the "men farthest down" 4rhoiri he found in these countries, one
cannot help agreeing with the conclusion to which he comes when he says:
"Even if they had the choice, I do not believe that the Southern peo-
ple, black or white, would be willing to exchange their own troubles, iuch
as they are, wi'h those of any other nation or group of people in Europe or
elsewhere."*
This rerrarkable book gives abundant new material which tends to
prove the salient points of the gospel which its author has preached in
this country for a number of years, to wit: That the negro is better off
in the sou-hern part of the United States than he would be anywhere else
on earth; that practical industrial and agricultural education is the most
immediate and successful method 'hat can be applied to the solution of
what is known as the "negro problem"; that the Southern people are more
kindly disposed toward the negro and more likely to help him forward
than the people of any other part of the world, and, above all, that the ne-
gro is making progress in the South, remarkable progress when compared
with the submerged portion of some other peoples.
Tbs bo»»k :» riot «<> valuable for the
mere loformaiitin It contain.* a* it is for
th« inferemw that can ilrawn from
this Information and which have direct
bearing upon ihe South n problem*.
Baok»*t Washington is a very observant
man; be wen* to Europe to observe only
a certain cbi.«,s of facta, and he remained
true to that purpose, confining himself
In all the countries he visited to seeking
out the particular conditions* hi- desired
to study and resitting the temptation to
see other things which raos* people go
to se«* when touring Europe. I* w»a as
a student of a certain set of condition®
that he went abroad and not as a tourist
In th*» popul.tr sens**. (*on.«*tjuently in
the short tinif that he had to !>pend in
the various countrie® he visited he ac-
quired more Information of a special
kind than the ordinary traveler would
a« -»ulr • during a sojourn of much longer
duration
N£GKO g CONDITION IN THE POI'TH
*'lt • » i£eneratlv said that the negro
repr«»-»»'iirs In America the man farthest
down he writ-*. "Iri going to Europ*-
I had in mind to compare the mas-ex of
the n**gro peopi- m the Southern State*
with the in Europe In something
Hkf the Mama stage of civilisation. li
would not b»- dlfiu-ult to compart* th*»
negro in the ,4outh with the Polish peas-
ant, for example, be. a use the masses of
the Poles arer ilk*- the massea of the
no«roes, an agricultural i»eople
"I know no class among the negroes in
America, however, with whom I t ould
compare ihe man at the bottom in Eng-
land Whatever one may ta> of the
oefro In America, he is not. a* a rule,
a beggar. It is very rarely that an> on»
see* s black hand str^t' hed out for alms
One d«>es see. to be sur*. too many idle
and loai'ing negroes standing on the
street corners and around the railway
stations in the Smooth, but th»- negro Is
not. hi a rule, a degenerate. If he is at
the bottom In America, it is not !»♦■*-.» use
he rias gone backward and sunk down,
but because ha has never risen."
Washington gives a vivid description of
the condition of the submerged in I»n-
don. quoting some startling statistic* of
cases of deatti from starvation Com-
menting on these, he continue*
"Not Infrequently, when In my public
speeches 1 have made sonic reference to
th • condition of the negro In the South,
certain members of my own re<e In the
North have <<bj«* ted because, they said.
I did not paint • onditlons In the 9buth
black enough During my stay in Eng-
land I had the unusual experience of be-
ing criti< ise«i It the I.ondort newspapers
for the same reason, this time bv an
American white man At the very mo-
ment that tins man attacked me because
in my i>ubli< interviews I emphasized the
opport inltles rather than the wrongs of
the negro In i he ^outh. I had In my pos-
»e- -i«>fi a do. anient whi- h gave the his-
tory of fifty-two persons, one for every
week In the year who had died in the
city of I^>nd««n alone for want of food.
*1 have ne. er denied that the negr » in
the Mouth freftorotly meets with wrung
and Injustice but he d.»e* rot starve. f
do nor think a single case was ever beard
of In the Mouth where a negro died for
want of food In fact, unless because of
si< fcness or .«ome i-ther reason he
been unable to work. It Is comparatively
rare to find a negro in an almshouse.*
One of the advantages which the negro
possesses in the South over the man
farthest down In England, according to
Washington. i« in the matter of labor.
In this connection he quote* a letter from
a negro who found himself stranded in
I^ondon and who applied to Washington
for aid in obtaining passage home, which
is at once pathetic and funny. The man
\had been living in London fourteen
onths without being able to obtain
ork.
HOT BISCUITS CALLED HIM.
•I have tried to apply for work." he
writes to Washington. "They said they
It seems to me that
all Britain are against the negro race.
..ome say. "Oo back to your own coun-
try. knowing if I had the means I would
f*y tomorrow. Further on he continues:
?• winter is coming on and I like to
get home to shuck corn or to get to
Maryland for a oyster draggin'. It Is a
long time since I had watermelon, pig's
feet and corn Say. Mr. Washington, if
you e\tr knew what a man in a hole is
1 guess I am in a hole and the cover
over. I can see the pork t hops and rhe
corn bread and the hot biscuits catling
me to come and get some and many a
time I have tried but failed. I can't
reach them; the great Atlantic Ocean
stop m<* and I remain your obedient ser-
vant "
••This letter, from which I have given
a few extracts. Washington comments
"it but one of many which I received
during my stay in I»r>don. not only from
colored, but from white Americans who
h«.d come to England to better their con-
dition or seek their fortune
"These letters served still further to
impress me with the fact tlvu th-- masses
of my ov n people fn the South do no
fi Hy appreciate the advantages which
they I ave'in living in a country where
tl ere ia a onatant demand for labor >t
all kinds and where even the poor people
d- not starve.
"If I were aoked what I believed would
be the greatest boon that could be con-
ferred upon the English laborer. I should
say that it would be for him to have the
same opportunit ies for constant and
steady work thai the negro now has in
the South. It I were asked what would
be the next greatest benefit that could
be conferred upon the Englinh laborer, i
should say that it would be to have
m tools in which e\ er> - lass could learn
to do some one thing well —to have. In
other words, the benefit of the kind of in-
dustrial education that we are seeking, fn
seme measure, to give to the negro at the
present time in the Southern States *'
NKGBO WOMAN IN* AMERICA.
A significant chapter In the booic Is en-
titled. "Women Who Work in Europe
Indeed, Washington comes to the conclu-
sion that in Europe "the man farthest
dc wn Is woman After describing condi-
tions among the women workers, he re-
marks: "There must be a new distribu-
tion of occupation*. Too many women in
Europe arc performing a kind of labor
for which they arc not naturally fitted
and for which they have had no special
training. There arc too many women in
the ranks ot unskilled labor M> pwn
conviction Is that what the working-
women of Europe need most In a kind of
education that will lift a larger number
of them Into the ranks of skilled labor—
ti-at will teach them to do something and
to do that something well.
"The negro women in America have a
great advantage In this respect. They
are everywhere admitted to the aatrio
schools to which the men are admitted.
All the negro colleges are crowded with
women. They are admitted to the Indus
trial scfTools and to training In the dif-
ferent trade? aa men."
Booker Washington has ever been an
optimist. He could never have accom-
plished what be has in this country had
I "FORTY YEARS OF IT'
BRAND WHIT LOCK.
^eldom lists t lie autobiography of so young a msn created such widespread interest
as the retnini<. eu. es of his forty years of life that Brand Whitlock. prominent author
and mayor of Toledo, Ohio, has begun publishing in the American Magazine, from
the time be w . — ( newspaper niun iu Chicago to the present Brand Wliit lock's career
has been an ahsorldugly interesting one. and be has been associated with some of
the leading prcirt .-han. Jers of the la-*t two derides. His comments «»u such
pers* -'.a ites - (.nvortii-r Altge't a .i 1 Colden Rule Jones, the latter having |»rccede<l
bin :ih luaj'.i . f l. 'edo. are of great interest. l»e< uus« Whitloek wns iu closest sym-
psthv with tbctn and had unusual opportunities to study them at «•'* se range. His
aw»ont of Governor Alrgclt's experience n pardoning the Chicago anarchists is a
genuine contribut hn to the memoirs of that remarkable man Tn the current issue
of the Ameri-ari he gives a vivid nr»-ount of his relations with Golden Rule Jones.
These recoi?e« lions will be published shortly in book form under the title "Forty
^ ea rs of 1 f."
he not ueen one So in the view he takes
of "the man farthest down ' in Europe sis
in Atr.. ri'-a h»- look- to the future with
confider.ee. Ite t-ives tills hopeful
thought with tiie reader in bringing his
book to close:
To the man In a tower the world below
him is Hkels to look \ er.v small. Mc*i
look like ants and all the bustle and stir
ot their hurry.ng lives seems pitifully
ronfus'-d and aimless. Hut the man in
the street who is looking and striving up-
ward i- In h different situation. How-
ever poor hi< v resent plight, the thing
he aims it a*.d is striving toward stands
out clear and distinct above him, in-
spiring him witn hope anil ambition In
Lis struggle upward For the man who is
down there Is always something to hope
for something to be gained The man
who l« down, looking up. may catch a
glimpse now and then of heaven, but
the man uh- is so situated that he
only look down is pretty likely to see an-
other and quite different place.
The Mai* Farthest Down" is published
by Lioi-bleday. Page A Co., New York.
Sunday Evenings in
the College Chapel
Professor Francis O. Pea body's con-
«*1uding \olume of his Harvard Chapel
Series, entitled "Sunday Kvenlngs in the
College Chapel" < Houghton-Mifflin Com-
pany. Boston and New Yorki. contains
a selection of sermons preached at the
Sunday evening services of the universi-
ty during the twenty years of the au-
thor's administration. These addresses,
like the shorter talks in his earlier books,
have primarily in mind the problems of
young men iu the course of their educa-
tion. but have the same qualities which
have made the previous collection wel-
come. not only in many colleges and
schools, but in the daily reading of
many homes.
Phillips Brooks once said of Harvard
Chapel that "after all. this is the great-
eat of preaching places." Professor
Pea body sterns also to have found it so.
and the challenge of the peculiar situa-
tion created by the conditions in college
life is met with a spirit that Is at once
academu and broadly human. All may
not agree at all times with the point
°* of Professor Pea bod > whose
< hrlstianily is of a broad and liberal
type, but the dignity and ferver of the
preacher no one can resist, tit eat fun-
ds II rental truths of religion are here
restated wilh no less zeal because of
the seeming concessions to the broaden
ing spirit of doubt with which th»»
preacher necessarily had to wrestle.
And as much of that spirit is found
abroad today, there is a wide public to
which these sermons should appeal with
pecultar force.
Of particular interest is the concluding
sermon of the series which was preached
on Ihe occasion of the 250th anuiversarv
of the founding of Harvard I'nlversity.
In it Professor Peabody reviews the
evolution of religious liberalism from the
time of the foundation of the college to
the present day It will depend upon
one s point of view as to whether or
not one will find svmpathv with the
authors glowing words. However, the
set mou contains much that will rejoice
the hearts of those who are imbued with
the mo'lern movement away from nar-
rowness .end dogmatic sectarianism in
religion.
In Henry James' new autobiographical
volume. "A Small Boy and Others. '
countless little portraits are evoked out
of the past. For Instance, the little boy.
walking at his father s side in Fifth Ave-
nue, sees Gen. Winfield Scott emerge
from a cross street: "We must have been
for some moments face to face, while
from under the vast amplitude of a dark-
blue military cloak with a big velvet
collar and loosened silver clasp, which
spread at»out him like a symbol of the
tented field, ho greeted my parent—so
clear is my sense of the time it took me
to gape all the way up to where he tow-
ered aloft."'
WANTED—A PEDESTAL
FOR THE BUSINESS HERO
Plague of the Preface IVaced to Ber-
nard Shaw—The New Spirit in the
Drama — Amazon. Explorers Fulfill
Novelist's Dream—Plays and Stories
a> an Aid lo Digestion.
Special Cable Service to The Ezprnw
w ONDOX, April 2S.—A most amusing
MJ discussion has just been started in
London as to the business man as hero.
All at once some British critics have
discovered that the successful merchant
or trader has. to a large degree, ousted
the detrimental and the poor but ro-
mantic hero from popular ffttion. They
urge the time has at length come when
the business hero must be put severely
on his proper pedestal and ' made to
wear his halo in its proper place.
At present, the British novelist seems to
have got commerce in a hopeless tangle,
in spite of the healthy examples of the
late Harold Frederic, Winston Churchill,
Frank -Norris and other American writ-
ers of the same sturdy sort who handled
trade with the fire and intelligence of a
Rockefeller. As a consequence, when he
has to picture a business man, he does
it almost under protest. In fact, the
poor business hero usually comes into the
limelight here in Kngland as the husband
of a beautiful and aristocratic wife who
does not love him because his manners
are somewhat morose, and because he
lacks the airs and graces of the tame
house animal of her own set.
This, of course. Is arrant snobbishness,
and about as true to real life as is the
Bowery to the rest of the streets of the
I'nited States. Still It certainly goes
down with the average British woman
who has never troubled to use her brain.
It has, however, moved one of the big-
gest business men in London. 11. B. Mor-
gan, to utter a complaint that
hitherto women have been a hin-
drance rather than a belp
man striving to make a position for
himself in the. world of commerce. He
also makes an impassioned plea for a
little of the sympathy and interest
which the majority of women lavish so
unstintingly on the soldier and the saJlor,
the poet and the painter, and even on the
lawyer and the doctor, to be extended
to the business hero. The business man.
he contends, has quite as great a need
of encouragement and appreciation as
the members rOf more showy and decora-
tive professions.
'I do not ask that the business man
should be coddled or kept in cotton
wool," he says, "but I do maintain that
the bpsiness man has hitherto had far
less than his just share of feminine sym-
pathy and support. When a lawyer gets
his first client, a doctor his first case, or
when an artist sells his first picture, or
a novelist his first book, his wife is full
of pride and joy. She knows what it
means to her husband. But when a busi-
ness man gets his first rise," which has,
perhaps, cost him, one cannot say how
much urain power, energy and industry,
he usually gets scant appreciation from
his wife. She regards it merely from the
financial point of view. She has no in-
telligent appreciation of what it means
to him No man has to plow a more
lonely furrow' than the average business
man making a career for himself.
"In fact, here in &ngland many moth-
ers would prefer to see their daughters
married to a failure in any of the more
showy' professions than to a successful
business man. Sisters are always glad
for their brother to pilot them about if
he happens to je a soldier or a sailor;
but if he is merely 'in an office' they
show no such desire. Tne American
women are quite different. They study
business methods, and are able to talk in-
telligently on the subject. When a busi-
ness man comes home tired at night,
what a boon it would be for him if he
had a wife to whom he could talk of his
successes and failures during the day.
The business man asks for no "frills in
a woman. All he demands is intelligence
and sympathy, and I think it is time the
wheel of feminine appreciation revolved
in his direction. I say this all the more
emphatically because women are not
slow to sympathize with the business
man who has 'arrived.' It is during the
dreary uphill climb that he feels himself
ostracized and yet this is the very time
at which sympathy and encouragement
are pre-eminently necessary."
A host ot' novelists have rushed into
print, and have asswered Mr Morgan to
the best of their abilities—but the gen-
eral verdict seems to be that if one wants
to see a f.iir and accurate portrait of a
business man in a play or a novel, one
must not look for a faithful likeness in
any British production. The real thing
is only found in the work that is ex-
ported from the United States.
PLAGUE OF THE PREFACE.
Can nothing be done to stop the plague
of the preface? This year it has broken
out in the most virulent and extensive
fashion, and, unless readers unite speed-
ily and make an effective protest, half
of the best known books will be mere
froth, and praise, and needless prelimi-
nary explanation and guile.
Thus "Marie Claire" appears In Eng-
lish dress, with numerous preliminary
pages re-explaliilng exactly the circum-
stances ot her birth—already of Euro-
pean fame. Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer
writes introductions for Miss Violet
Hunt's adaptations of her mother's work,
and Mr. Hall Caine naively lets us know
how he has been staggered by the au-
dacity of a writer like Herr Bojer. who
actually dares to reproduce a conversa-
tion "m bed''—quotations Mr. Caine s
—as though a tortured conscience could
not break out with precisely the same
effects anywhere, at any hour of the day
or night.
It is now urged that the example of
Mr. Bernard Shaw, whose prefaces aie
usually longer than his plays, and at
least as entertaining, has contributed
v something towards this turn of the wheel
of literary fashion. Unhappily one looks
in vain for another preface writer with
Mr. Shaw's vigor, pugnacity and talent
for saying unexpected things. Nobody
now writes of his own work—or anybody
else's—in the tone of supreme contempt
Mr. Shaw once thought proper to as-
sume when he discussed "Widowers'
Houses."
For example, there is that most glaring
example of a very brief novel, or over-
grown short story, by Miss F. M Mayor.
Its title is "The Third Miss Symons,"
and it is an effective sketch of the life
of an entirely ordinary spinster of the
last generation—good, sound work in ev-
ery way. distinguished by both strength
and delicacy. Ani the publishers have
equipped it with three things: <1) A cloth
of the slat\ blue, which seems to fade
more rapidly than any other color. (2)
a geometrical design upon the said cover,
which immediately renders the beholder
dizzy, and a preface by John Hase-
field.
This preliminary note is critical in form
and frankly laudatory in substance. It
tells the gentle reader that Miss Mayor
has chosen a good subject and handled it
with singular skill;" that the form she
has adopted enforces The omission of
"much that is tiresome in the modern,
novel, the pagres of analysis and of com-
ment:" that the theme and the technique
are well suited to one another; that the
heroine of the story fails to make much
of her career because she has contracted
habits, and becausc of 'a want of illumi-
nation in herself, her instructors ani in
the life around her."
There is no need to multiply elegant
extracts. Briefly. these introductory
pages of Mr. Masefield's would have
made an admirable newspaper review—
they tell in a modern space exactly what
the book is about, what Mr. Masefield
thinks ought to be thought of it and
why. But I agree with the distinguished
writer who. firssi of all, called attention
to this waste of cheap praise. I do not
think that it is really necessary to bind
UP this sort of explanation-cum-comment
within the very covers of the book criti-
cised. and l hope that publishers in Kng-
land and the United States will unite in
putting down this waste of good type and
paper.
NEW SPIRIT IN THE DRAMA.
The craze that set in £or turning nov-
els into plays has received a rather sud-
den and unexpected setback by the re-
ception of Temple Thurston's dramatiza-
tion of his novel, "The Qreatest Wish of
the World." a't the Garrlck Theater. l»n-
don. Everybody seemed to agree that
thit full-length study of an Irish Roman
Catholic pri"St In I^ondon was beautifully
staged and mounted, but when it came to
the rest of the production it did not get
across the footlights. Its pathos remained
a thing apan and remote, and it ha 1 nine
of that grip that Sariou insisted in for
a great third act and that the British
public inevitably demand when it comes
to close grips with popularity and a long
run.
Yet, as Arthur Bouchier, who played
the part of the priest, said quite truly:
"Father O'Leary is a fascinating study
for any actor or novelist. His sympathies
are as wide as humanity itself; he under-
stands the heart because his own Is hu-
man; he is a mighty power for good, for
his influence reaches out unto all men.
That Is the priest at his best, and in rhe
play he has come unto his own on th®
static.
"The preacher who does not practice is
alien to this age. Father O'Leary at
great moment in his career delivers him-
self in these words: a man of God, as
they call us. can be a man of the world,
and it is a deuced bad job for the church
if he isn't.' That is the pivot on which
the striking career of Father O'Leary
terns, and it is as the living epistle of
that doctrine thai I sought to present
him
Tn spite of this it is, I fear, the oil
stcry of dramatized novels. If they are
to live upon the stage they must be han-
dlr-d in the new realistic spirit of the
drama and In a manner which is quite
different from the novelist's art. Temple
Thurston has not caught the trick of it.
All that is left of the novel Is a bald,
story of a young man who went off sud-
denly to sea. was misunderstood and re-
turned just in time to save his little girl
from taking the veil. All the imagination
and the poetry of it seem to have evapo-
rated. leaving lumps of crude sugar in
the bottom of the cup. And the public
just now won't take little lumps of crude
sugar from anybody but J. M Barrie
AMAZON EXPLORERS.
A great effort is being made In England
to "boom" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's new
novel, "The Lost World, into the posi-
tion of a respectable second, from the
point cf view of popularity to the re-
doubtable Sherlock Holmes.
For instance, I have Just received a
circular from the British publishers head-
ed: "Of course, they -will take Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's book with them." in which
is presented the following news item:
GOING AFTER A "LOST WORLD."
"Philadelphia. March 19.—The yacht
Pennsylvania., bound for one of the most
adventurous voyages of modern times,
sailed down the Delaware River today,
carrying a daring party or explorers, who
purpose penetrating to the far reaches of
the Amazon and to the headwaters of
many of its mighty tributaries iu the in-
terest of science and hunanity. They
seek what is known as tl*e iost world' in
the basin of the Amazon "—The Daily
Times, Chattanooga, Tenn
The literary and scientific papers of the
TTnltsd States had better look to their
laurels now that the "Daily Times. Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.," is on the warpath on
the far reaches of the Amazon—and here
in London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will
certainly keep his weather eye fixed on
the good yacht Pennsylvania, for in his
"Lost World" he may have hit upon some
truths too deep for words—or tears.
AS AN AID TO DIGESTION.
John Galesworthy has just made public
a very striking appeal for sinoerit> in
fiction and In the drama. He hold:- that
sincerity is the origin of the recent and
widespread advance of literature both
here and in the United States. Now he is
passionately anxious that we should not
lose its effect, but should remain con-
sistently faithful to mood, to impression
a Mil to self.
*Just consider what sincerity- exclude^,**
he cries. "All c«i re for balance at the
auth}r"s bank—even when there is no
balance. All habit of consulting the ex-
pression on the public's face. All con-
fectioning of French plays. All the con-
venient practice of adding up your plots
on the principle that two and two makf
five. There it excludes. It includes!
Nothing becau.se it pays. Nothing be-
cause It makes a sensation. No situa-
tions faked. No characters falsified. No
fireworks. Only something imagined and
put down in a passion ol truth.
"Of course, he adds, "there are fac-
tors against sincerity even in the hearts
of the public. One is the champagne of
dinner, which leaves the mind in no fit
state for mental effort. "Plays, there-
fore," he writes sardonically, splitting
an infinitive as he docs so, "should be
of a quality to just remove the fumes
by U o'clock, and make ready the or-
ganism for "supper at 11:30. I admit, how-
ever, there are the rush and hurry and
strenuousness of modern life, which put
the hard-worked man into such a state
that all he requires is a detective story,
a good laugh.
"But," says Galesworthj^ "the pity is
that sircere drama would often provide
as agreeable dreams for the hard-
worked man as some of those reveries in
which he now indulges, if only he would
try it once or twice. That is the trouble—
to get him to give it a chance."
STANHOPE W. SPRIGG.
CHATS IX THE LIBRARY
Current Gossip in the World
of Rooks a id the Men
Making Them.
The publication of Gouverneur Morris'
novel of New York life, "The Penalty."
was necessarily postponea until March 2it
because of the pressure or orders. A
large first edition had been printed, aii i
Charles Scribner's Sons, publish' rs. had
intended to put the book on sale on
March 22, but orders from the dealers
continued to come in at such a rate that
the book had to be sent to press again
in order to fill them. "The Penalty ' .is
the exciting love story of a young ama-
teur sculptress of social position and
great beauty, who is Lorn between the
necessity of surrendering either love or
ambition. It involves many characters
of the so-called "underworld." and
touches upon some of the most burning
social topics of the moment. It Is illus-
trated with many full-page and double-
page pictures by Howard Chandler
Christy.
And there is this glimpse of Thackeray:
"Still present to me is the voice pro-
ceeding from my father s library, in
which some glimpse of me hovering, at
an opening of the door, in passage or on
gtaircase, prompted him to the form- iablc
words; 'Come here, little bos . and show
me your extraordinary jacket!' iA small
New York boy at that time wore a little
Eheathiike ja ket. tight to the body.
closed at the back and adorned in front
with a single row of brass buttons > My
eense of my jacket became from that
hour a heavy one—further enriched as
my vision Is by my shyness of posture
before the seated, the celebrated visitor,
who struck me. in the sunny light of the
animated room, as enormously bin and
who, though he laid on my should' : the
hand of benevolence, bent on my native
coatume the spectacles of wonder
Those who imagine that th- old ex-
pression "as busy as a beaver" means
that the person to whom it is applied is
always at work, will be surprised t"
learn that the heaver is a very good loat
er. Enos A. Mills, in his new book, In
Beaver World, gives fascinating a
counts of the industry and ingenuity of
this little animal, but he also says that
when work is done th«- beaver is the
most absolutely idle animal one can po.»
slbly imagine.
Mrs. Anna Coleman I.add. author of
"The Candid Adventurer." one of the
new spring books from Houghton Mifflin
Company, is already well known as a
sculptor. One of her most notable works
Ts "The Water Sprites. ' w hich she did
for the gardens of the estate of Mrs. E.
S. Grew at West Manchester. Mass. The
sprites are seen playing in the spray
which comes from the fountain beneath
them. The lower figure b.ans backward,
balancing delicately and supporting the
upper figure, which has one foot on the
shoulder of the lower and the other in
his hand. Mr». Ladd achieved this
splendid piece by using aa models two
Scrobats. wbo posed through days and
ays of strenuous labor, holding the po-
sition only twenty seconds at a ime.
Mrs. Ladd s new book, as r:igl.t a nv >st
be expected. Is an admirable pict i *e of
the artistic temperament.
John Fleming Wilson, author of he
recently published "The Man Who Ca ne
Back" and the forthcoming "Tad Shel-
don, Scout" (Sturgis & Walton Co.). l as
been a great wanderer, and this partly
for the love of changing scenes and con-
ditions and partly by the calls of his
ditlons and partly by the calls of his vo-
cation. In his journalistic experienc- Mr
Wilson has worked in places so distant
as Honolulu and New York and for a
large part of the last two years ha. 1< ne
his writing on board of steamers, vn h re
he is a "steady boarder." All toll he
has made over 100 voyages and has twi e
circumnavigated the United States by
way of the St. Lawrence, the <Ir it
Lakes, the Columbia River, Puget Sound
and the Isthmus of Panama. He is now
making his home for a year on the At-
lantic Coast, having lately returned fi
an extended trip to Central America J
the West Indies.
Lawrence J. Henderson whose n-w
book. The Fitney«* of tb<* Knvironmen!
is aroosing considerable < omment in s-i-
ftZktlflo c ircles, is professor «»f bio • _ri-al
chemistry at Harvard University He
holds an A. B. from Harvard, dn.^s of
and an M. D., 1902. He has studh •»
at the I nlversity of Strassbiirg and t
been successively lecturer instructor a;, i
assistant professor at Harvard In 1 ~
research work be has given espe-.
tent ion to the physico chemical constitu-
tion of the cell.
Sir Gilbert * Parker's eminence In po-
litical circles is as great as his eminence
in literary circles. He is a member of
the Union party in the House of Com-
mons, and he is as popular as a man as
he is valuable as a fellow partisan One
of the points of his popularity Is thut
he can see a joke upon himself as well
as on another This is illustrated by a
recent incident in the House, when ^ir
Gilbert had made a speech about Ire-
land, to which Mr. Lardner was i • -
plying. Mr. Lardner persi-r- 1 In referrii
to Sir Gilbert Parker a- h» right h<>
orable gentleman —a tit reserved for
privy councillors—until Sir Gilbert int :-
jected: "I am not right honorable" On-
of the Irishmen promptly rejoined 'W-
you ought to be; many a worse ma-
Hearty laughter betokened general
proval of the compliment, to which :
recljwent bowed his acknowled^no-ti-
Mr. Lardner proceeded to correct himself
by explaining that he meant to speak of
Sir Gilbert as "the honorable baron, t
Again the member for Gravesend had to
dissent: "J am not a baronet either ;
whereupon that same small, smooth
voice from the back Irish bench spoke
encouragingly to the member of the
Monaghan: "Try 'noble lord' on htm.
and see how he takes it." The Speak, r.
Sir Gilbert and everybody else had to
join in the merriment-
One of ilie reasons why Stephen Fren- h
Whitman, the author of "1 he Isle of Life
Is so .skillful a writer stands forth in this
little Incident : A reporter of n New York
paper wa> sent to Interview Mr. Wbitmao
at the Princeton Club. Mr. Whitman was
much Interested iu him. found out. after
about two minutes, that he was horn of
some European peasant family, had come
here without knowing any English 10 years
of age. had passed through all sorts of
hardships In one way or another, had
studied at every opportunity under st r-
lights and in such odd places, had flna' •
become one of the best reporters of The
best papers. That was one result of the
interview. A further
Whitman, discovering tf - yow
been assigned to a certain tr.n
the East Side, volunteered t
wilh him and cover it So th
gel her from news point to
ph-kiDg up and following the
the story, and finally closing
In a little Hungarian restaurant.
they give you wine, red or white
bread-sticks about two and a b.i
long. That is what Mr. Whit ma
from the interview; what the repor
will soon be published.
A new book by Prof. George San
Winds of Do. trine," is about to 1
lis bed by the Scribnera. its sut
'Strdies in Contemporary opln;
of its essays are extremely tim-
ing. as the title makes plain tif
most active intellectual tendencies
day. But perhaps because of Brys
cent visit md grestvogu- In thi-
try, the one called •'The Philosophy
Bergsou" Is the most eo. The ofhr
Th. Philosophy ef M. Bertrand R
•The Intellectual Temper of the
"Shelley; or the Ppstic Value of 1
tlonsry Principles, and "The
Tradition in American Philosophy
Stephen French Whitman's new
"1 he iMe of Life," has just come fr
Scribner presses. Has earlier one w
very different sort. It wan culled
destined," and described with |
realism the gradual AteiBtegration
haracter of a young mm In V-w
of clti
thi
thre
rith
City, under foree
leredit' It was ne
and when Mr Whitmau
Italy after its pu!>li'- «ti "
ago.* someone suggested th
written In such m atm.
less heavily shaded than
Mr. Whitman answered
In this quarte* of heroin#
Patsj , the inspiring and
garet and her companion:
learned in the great less*
ambitious Milly Kidge. Ii
wide a variety of temperat
8ible. Arid yet each is ral
or another an example oi
book heroine should be.
He has certainly prove,
that a novel can be full
any rate, that nuushine ei
over shadow. For "The 1-
swift* vivid romance, full
picture, whose scene is la
liancy of modern Roman
shifted to a little lawless
Mediterranean off Sicily
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