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FRIENDS,
IS THAT
Victor Hago Intellectual Biography, trans-
IntH by George O'Rnurke. $1.-0. Funk fc
"R'agnalls Co., New York City.
So far as known, this Is the only work
of prose written "by. Victor Hugo, the
greatest of French novelists and poets,
which has not previously been published
In English. Sometime ago, It first made
Its appearance In French as the chief
memorial of the Victor Hugo centenary,
and was received with surprise, -but with
every mark of respectful commendation.
"Written in exile and In the solitude of
hta Island home, Hugo ordered that the
manuscript be not published until some
years after his death, his purpose ap
parently being that he might with greater
freedom than In life give his private
conclusions on literature, philosophy, art
and religion.
None of Hugo opinions as now trans
lated by Mr. O'Rourke are shocking. One
moment sympathetic and the other ruled
by sarcasm that really cuts, Hugo throws
new light upon his literary processes,
and emerges a greater teacher than be
fore. The world has already set Its
emphatic seal of approval on Victor Hugo
ajid his works have been translated prob
ably into every civilized language. Pop
ularly, he U loved as a novelist, but cul
tivated readers know that In his poetry
his genius has achieved Us most sublime
triumph. Jules JJemaitre pronounced i
Hugo "the mightiest gatherer of words
since the world began." Balzac calls
him "a whole universe," and Mr.
O'Rourke says that Hugo is to be ranked"
'in that supreme constellation of Orion
whose four central orbs are Homer, Aes
chylus, Dante and Shakespeare.
To start with, Mr. O'Rourke gives an
Introduction of 70 pages, in which ha
deals critically yet appreciatively with the
subject at issue, and then follows Hugo's
message as he wrote It to be read by
busy men and women after he was dead.
What follows Is like an intellectual ocean
beginning as a mountain stream and end
ing in a mighty river, sweeping all before
it. Here and there-the message Is tinged
with melancholy, showing that the writer
was human In his sympathies and had
drunk of sorrow's cup.
Here Is a barbed dart from Hugo's
quiver:
One day you --hall awaken in another bd.
Tou shall live that great life that they call
death. You aha 1 1 look and see darkness,
nd. suddenly, the sun arising out of the
Infinite will appear In nplendor above the
horizon and a ray of light, of the true
light, will traverse and lose Itself In the
profound. Then you will be struck with
wonder and will see In that band of ltght
millions of unknown beings whirling pell
mell, flying, brooding some celestial, aomo
Infernal those Invisible brings that you now
deny. And you shall feel wings unfolding
at your nhpulders. and you yourself shall be
one of those beings!
About half of the volume Is devoted to
literature and art, and other pages give
Huso's convictions as to the soul, man's
destiny and God. Then there Is a sheaf
of detached thoughts, some of these be
ing: Son. brother, father, lover, friend. There
ts room In the heart for all the affections,
as there Is room In heaven for all the stars.
Oh. woman! Beings fashioned of all our
sorrows, of all our Joys, of what is most in
spiring within us. Veritable Kves taken
from our sides. It was to madden us. to
fill us w-lth rapture or despair. It was to
draw ps frim words of flams, heart poems,
wild deeds, that nd painted your eye
brows in ihadow and gave you eyes ef fire.
Without vanity, coquetry, curiosity In a
word without he fall, woman would not
woman. Much of her grace la In tier
frailty.
Goodness first, greatness next, happlnass
last
The wis man does not grow eld. but
ripens
Intelligence Is the wife, imagination the
mU trees, memory the servant.
A religion In a translation.
My belief in God is direct.
Peath is a change of garments.
What la there beyond the pole? What la
tber beyond the summits? Heaven.
Death Is not the end of all. It but tha
end of ona thing and tha commencement
of another. At death man ends, the soul
begins-
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The illustrations are exquisite re
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Tranquil and meditative, this Eng
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Queen Klfzabeth of Jtoumania. "Carmen
fiylva," has contributed a number of hand
some volumes to tha Queen's fete In Lon
don. In aid of crippled children.
The next issue In the Macmlllan series of
plays by Clyde Fttch will be "Tha Truth."
In which Mrs. Clara Blood good appeared
with, much success during the past season.
Lofty purpose marks the lines of Sara
King Wiley's, dramatic poem, "The Coming
of Phllbert. Her art Instinct and gift of
combining forces ana figures become more
evident.
No book ef the season is anticipated with
greater Interest than "The Loves of Pellea
and Ettarre," by Zona Gale. It la expected
that this delightful story will be published
In a few days.
Arthur Hemlng's "Spirit Lake" la to be
published this month. This human story
of the Indians In the Canadian Northwest
will be an especially attractive book, be
cause of tha remarkable illustrations which
Mr. Homing has prepared to accompany his
text.
Figures received from booksellers and tab
ulated In the June Bookman show that
"The Port of Missing Men" has been without
Interruption since Its publication the best
selling book In America, In recent years at
least. And to tha contrary -no man knew
eth. e e
Three new volumes In the Macmlllan aeries
ef color books are "Canada," text by Dr,
Wilfred Campbell, Illustrations by T. Mow
er Martin; "Cambridge," text by Miss M.
A. K. Tuker, illustrations by Matthlson, and
"Canterbury." text by Telgnmouth Shore, lu
lustrations by Disco ni be Gardner.
An Important contribution to the history
of social theories is Dr. William B. Guthrie's
"Socialism Before the French Revolution."
Dr. Guthrie has made a thorough survey
of the field indicated In his title, dwelling
especially on such outstanding figurea as
Sir Thomas More, Bacon and Campanella.
The publication of William Sage's new
romance of love and politics, entitled, "By
Right Divine." Is announced. The book
derives its name from the fact that the
central character. Senator Fordyca, has
controlled the politics of his State for so
long that he has come almost to belleva
that he has a divine, right to be its ruler.
The second volume of the collected edi
tion of the poetic works of W. B. Yeats
will be ready for publication shortly. This
volume will be devoted to his dramatic
works in verse, and will contain. In addition
to the plays which are already known to
Ms readers, the new poetic drama entitled
"Delrdre," which was produced In Dublin
last Winter.
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The last public writings of the late John
Fiske were the "Essays Historical and Lit
erary," which appeared in two volumes about
four years ago. Some of these essays are
amcng the most delightful and illuminating
that Mr. Fiske ever wrote, and the success
of the two-volume edition justifies the pub
lishers in announcing an issue of the two
volumes in one.
There are at least 10,000 yachts which
cruise yearly In foreign waters. Alexander
Hume Ford, in the current number of
Smith's Magazine, tells all about them, and
also about a large number of fellow-citizen
who spend a good part of their time afloat.
He tells how a man can take a delightful
cruise lasting for a whole year, and going
around the world, for $1700.
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Brian Hooker, a young writer whose work
has already begun to attract some attention,
Is the author of the novelette which opens
the July Smart Set. His story Is entitled
"Steel" and deals in quite an original way
with a love-affair on shipboard. A situa
tion of great power Is revealed at the outset,
and the unusual method with which th
author carries his story along keeps, the
reader's unflagging interest.
.
Were Fastolf and Fa 1 staff akin? It U
an old contention, and Wallace Duthie
hopes to throw new light on It In a volume
of historical studies to be soon publlshedr
Other personages of the past who figure in
bis essays are Jack Cade. Pepys and
Chateaubriand: The life ef the famous
Frenchman forms a realtstlc romance, for
at one time he was a starving exile, at an
other hi country's ambassador to Eng
land. a
Bernard Shaw always throws in a little
for good measure, and. as he aaya himself,
ha sometimes give more than his admirers
bargain for. In his new book. "John Bull's
Other Island and Major Barbara," about to
be Issued, he haa given, with the laviah
nrss of his race, a splendid preface to each
play. "A Preface for Politicians," a timely
and pungent artlcle.cn Home Rule, intro
duces "John Bull's Other Island." "Major
Barbara" is preceded by some sage advice
entitled "F1ist Aid to Critics," in which
Shaw explains himself a little.
Following and In a sense supplementing
Professor Osgood's great work on the Amer
ican Colonies, a book will be published next
Fall on "British Colonial Policy, 1754-17oo,"
by Dr. George Louis Beer. Although the
period covered by this book Is scarcely more
than a decade, yet there years are so im
portant, and tha Investigation has been
so thorough, that the book practically fur
nishes an account of the colonial policy of
the British Ministers in the eighteenth cen
tu It la founded entirely lip oa orucir 1
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TH&PMCONorMRI
Well, sir. I don't go much on looks,
But it doesn't seem jes' right
Fer the Lord to load a feller
With a face that's jes' a fright.
Away back in the forties,
When I firs' came to the West,
I lived down on the river.
Where I made a little nest
Fer me an' Sue; she liked it well;
An' it wasn't lonj till nabors '
Settled near us in the dell.
One feller, Thompson was his name,
Was the homeliest cuss I ever saw-
Yet he had the purtiest wife
That ever a feller looked at;
An' her beauty made her famus
All over the settlement
The which stirred up some strife.
Like most purty wimmen, she was vain
An' we could see, like all the rest,
She gave her husband pain
Every now an' then
By Uer posh-hanged flirty acshuns
When she met good-lookin' men.
Oae Winter, 'long in fifty,
"Vlicn the land was locked in mist,
An' we set aroun' the 6re till my wrist
Get tired a-whittlin Sue said:
"Si, the Thompsons are in trouble;
The husban's sick a-bed;
Misses Thompson's flirted 'roun'
Till she's jes' turned his head;
Seems like she's found a feller
Better look in' than her man."
An Sue kept on a-clatterin'
material: Dr. Bwr haa worked In tha alate
paper offirw at London and has made use of
material which Is Inaccessible to most Amer
icans and will probably remain so (or many
years to come. -
Professor Pierre Janet'a forthcoming work
on 'The Major Symptoms of Hysteria" will
appeal to many readeres outside of profes
sional medical circles. Professor Janet has
in abundance the peculiarly French faculty
of writing brilliantly and entertainingly on
a strlctlv scientific subject. He is perhaps
the most distinguished French student of
Jriveterla and kindred diseases, la the inves
tigation of which the French are promi
nent. Frederic Harrison wishes to correct the
impression wtjleh many reviewers seem to
have formed of his new work, "The Creed
of a LAyman." that It contains only matter
which has long been available to the public.
He aends word that about a third of the
book is entirely new. and that of the re
mainder about a half had appeared only
in the more or less private publications ot
the Posltivlst Society. It may. therefore,
be said that the greater part of the book
Is now given to the general public for the
first time.
Although only Just past his 40th birth
day. E. Phillips Oppenhelm is already the
author of no less than 22 novels, and It is
one of his objecta In life to add to them at
tho rate of two a year. He is Just leaving
Boston after a brief visit there, and ex
pects soon to sail for his English home
from New York. Mr. Oppenhelm, having
married an American, is naturally thor
oughly at home in thla country. Jn fact, ho
Is an extensive traveler through all lands,
and he U u reedy to dictate a novel to
his secretary on a railroad train aa In the
quietude of hla country home.
Through the courtesy of the Bartlett-Orr
Press. New York Ctty. a beautifully Illus
trated book detailing the growth and devel
opment ot the Pope Manufacturing Company,
of Hartford. Conn., a concern that stands for
"everything" In the manufacture of autoa
and bicycles, has been received. ' The story
told is a romance of business achievement
and not only deal with the Hartford end
of the corporation, but aleo describes its
agencies in other towns, notably In the West.
The book Is a fine specimen of the printer's
rt- ' . . .
For humor of tha subtler sort regarding
the thou5and-and-on aspects of love mak
ing that is the dawn of marriage, attention
is drawn to William Dean Howell's novel
of the New Hampshire hills- "Miss Bel
lard's Inspiration." Its picture of quiet do
mestie happinasa to eminently suited to the
mood of a reflned family fro up enjoying
vacation this Summer by ocean surf or
mountain peak. The last book from Mr.
Howell's pen, Throuh the Eye of the
Needle," is a sequel to that socialistic
fancy, published some 12 or 13 years a;o.
". Traveler From JUiruria." la which
Till her tongue it fairly ran!
Jes' then, up the valley,
On the river bottom trail
Leadin' to the ol' ford,
f'sme ridin' man an' woman
With their faces drawn an' pale,
An' both was lookin' toward
The Thompson cabin.
Jes' then here came young Thompson,
Ridin' like a gale.
They seen him, an' they started
Down the river's slippery bank,
Urged their boss into the water.
An' then he slowly sank.
The river was a-ragin'
An' a steamboat could have run
Its nose clean up to HiUtown,
Sura as I'm a sbn-of-a-gun.
Well, the boss sunk in the water,
Throwin' man an' woman in,
Jes' as they was crossin'
The threshold of their sin.
The man .f ergot the woman,
Watehin Thompson comin' on
With his rifle n his shoulder,
Lookin' like a ghost so wan.
H. struck across the river,
Swimmin' like a mallard duck,
Leavin' Misses Thompson
To depend on stren'th an' luck.
Misses Thompson, she went under,
'Cause she couldn't swim a stroke
An' when Thompson reached the river
You'd a-thought his heart was broke.
But he didn't waste a minnit;
Took it all in at a glance ;
Aristldes Homos comes from hia ideal home
In that perfected social state, Altrurla, to
observe the manners, eustoms and govern
ment of the "world's great republic."
which he finds to be and flatly and frank
ly terms a plutocracy. In the present
book, the experiences of Homos in New
Tork society are continued, related by "him
In letters to his friend in hi native land.
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The second volume In tha New American
Eocial Progress serlea will be "Standards
of Public Morality." by President Arthur
Twining Had ley, f Tale University. The
subject is one of peculiar interest at the
present time, and the author Is especially
wall-fitted to discuss it. President Hadley
represents, on the ona hand, the scholarly
traditions that have always eurrodnded the
presidency of a great university, and on the
other the Independence and freedom of
thought, the interest In the present and Us
problems, which are characteristic of the
best type of the modern university man.
s sv
Putnam "Weals, tha author of "Indiscreet
Letters From Peking," which has recently
been published, says of the manuscript or
this book that: "I submitted a duplicate
copy of "Indiscreet Lettera From Peking"
to an informal committee of three people,
who are my friends, a crown advocate, a
high counsellor official and a woman of the
world. I bad, therefore, the chance of hear
ing how it struck a lawyer, a diplomat
and a judge of good taste. Tha result was
that one chapter (Chapter XX) and a num
ber of passages which were looked upon as
trivial; were struck out. The personality of
tha supposed reader was also recommended
to be changed, and the- amended preface
showa this. After these corrections were
made, my friends assured ne that they
found the narrative of the highest interest.
My books "Manchu and Muscovite." and
"Tha Reshaping of tha Far East" have had
a heavier sale in China than any books pub
lished" at tha time dealing with East AsUtle
questions, and I have found It always to be
tha caae that local opinion In such matters
Is ona of the beat criterion regarding tht
nature of tha work done."
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In speaking ef David Oauley's picture of
Charles Batten Ixomls, the humorist and
author of "Foe's Raven In an elevator."
tho New Tork Sun aays: "How should a
humorist be painted? Isn't this question
futile as asking hew a humorist should
look in public? At home, naturally, he must
look glum, and for many- reasons hla wife
may refuse to laugh at his Jokes (the worm
will turn l or the children may demand 'a
real funny story, papa.' However, In, the
case of such a head as that ef Charles
Battel Loomls there is nothing to be done
except to catch Its pervading gloom la
proper tones, aureole the features with
pessimism and the trick It finished. Tavid
Gaulejr haa admirably caught the likeness
and the general wistful air ef the boy
humorist of North America. He lit quite
simply set before us the features of a fun
maker who even more than Simeon Ford
has 'melancholy lathed to the mast to
quote the harmonious phrase of Patricia
O'Brien. The ateel-cray aalr-Hpeppar-and-
Thompson's wmm
Saw the feller hikin', swimmin',
To save his life at any chance
An' leave the woman strugglin'
With the waters swirlin ' 'round,
An' if it hadn't been fer Thompsan,
Misses Thompson would have drowned.
"Come back, you thief, an' save her,"
Thompson shouted to the cuss.
But the rascal kept on swimmin'
Seems he didn't want no fuss..
Then the husban' stripped his jacket,
An' took a great big jump
We could see his arms a-workin'
Like an awtomatick pump.
He reached the stranglin' woman,
Fought the torrent runnin' wild,
Reached the bank a-f airly steamin',
An' -then, by Gosh, he smiled,
An' 6aid, "Mary, I'll fergive you,
If you'll only come back now,
An' remember that I love you,
An' alius did; an' how
Hard I've tried to please you
In our unlucky match
Won't yout Won't you, Maryt
Won't you help me lift the latch
An' go an' see the baby
As he lays there, fas' asleep,
A-waitin' fer his mammy
To hear 'his wakin' peepf"
The woman's eyes oped widely,
An' then, by Gosh, she wept,
An' to the feet of Thompson -
She piteously crept, .
An' moaned, an' moaned, an' cried;
salt. Mr. L-oomis describes it the long, sad
Chopinesque mask, and the introspect 1 e
gaze: these, with all the minor accruer! es
of mouth, ears and nose, Mr. Gauley has
painted with hi usual skill and verlsimt
tude. The portrait will be on exhibition
later. Mrs. Loomls thinks It is flattering
and Mr. Loomls thinks that Mrs. Loomls
is a humorist."
Bern In 171 Harold Begble, author of
Advertising Means of
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and investors who -are seeking investments
in the West. Astoria offers the best in
ducements to capital that are now to be
had anywhere in the world. Thla great
port at the mouth ef the mighty Columbia
River on the Pacific Coast is destined to be
as John Jacob Astor. Its founder, thought
and intended It should be. a second New
Tortc.
Yon who .nave been clerks for twsnty
years, do you want to die clerks, or would
you prefer to come out West and grow up
to be real men and property. holders? Out
West you can win a home, make a good
living and be independent, a real cltlsen,
with a chance to go to Congress or to the
Senate, to be the Governor of a great state.
All of the best Pacific Coast -timber grows
adjacent to Astoria, and the cheapest of
water transportation allows importation of
all Philippine woods, making it. together
with its incomporable ocean and river trans
portation, the most Ideal spot for a wood
working plant, of any kind, imaginable.
One ef the moat valuable things that
can be dons to belp boost all the Inter
ests of a stats or city la to create the
proper eeprlt de corps. There should be
no knockers. - There should be no talking
about some other atate or locality doing;
a thing In a superior manner or produc
ing; a thing; of a. superior quality. Let
the dead past bury Its dead. Know that
there is nothing greater In this world
than an idea, that there ts nothing; but
mind. The locomotive, the type-setting
machine, the watch, everything; that has
ever been Invented, first existed in tha
Inventor's mind, are nothlnr but mind.
"As a man thlnketh go la he." Therefore,
first think aright as citizens, create a
ihoulder-to-shoulder harmony In all pub
lic enterprises. Believe your state, your
city, will become great and lo! it Is soon
great. Have different opinions about re
ligion, about morals, about politics, but
11
I .
Then Thompson smiled agen, -An'
raised her to his level
An' then an' then an' then
He kissed her; 'twas a mighty pritty
sight,
But Sue an' I didn't likt it
We thought it wan 't-quite right.
An' then the man an' woman
Started past our cabin door
We asked 'em in to dry their clothes ;
"Oh, no; we started o'er,"
The woman said, an' then she looked
at him;
Looked in his face; right in his eyes;
An' then her own grew dim
With tears; an' then the woman said:
"My man ain't much fer handnome,
But he's got a noble head
An' heart; an' I know my lesson now,
An' never agen '11 grieve him;
Right here you bear my vow."
An', strange as it may appear,
The man, he took her back,
An' they're livin yet, together,
An.' they will, until the crack
Of doom separates 'cm ; mighty queer
What hearts these homely people have
To cling to what is dear
To 'em; but they alius pulled together,
An' she settled down right th()e,
An' f ergot about his homely face.
They made a lovin' pair
An' Misses Thompson alius says
As she takes Thompson's part:
' ' Never mind your handsome men
"I like a great, strong heart."
"The Penalty," is a son of Bev. Mrs Ham
ilton Begbte, a clergyman of the Chsrlei
Ktngsley school. He comes of a distin
guished military family; both of his grand
fathers were Generals In the English army,
and though Mr. Begbla haa rejected tn
sword in favor of the mlghtter weapon,
what's bred In the bone haa to come out in
the ink. Like the majority of authors who
begin early. Mr. Begble began as a pot.
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have only one) opinion about your city
and your state, and let that opinion be
that Oregon's population . will increase a
hundred fold this century and its wealth
ten times a hundred fold; that it must,
that it shall become, that it is, one of the
greatest states of the Union.
Don't abuse the oldtlmers, the old set
tlers, by calling them narrow, by calling
them "mossbacks." Remember that
there would have been no city, no state,
had not these old settlers come and
paved the way for the more recent ar
rivals. Remember that conservatism and
radicalism make a good mixture In the
proper proportions, although only an ex
pert mixologist may know those propor
tions. Don't encourage the newspapers of one
city to abuse the newspapers or people of
another city. Vituperation is a powerless
weapon from the muzsle. L.ike the old
fashioned army musket without the tra
ditional copper cent In the breach, its
kick Is more dangerous than Its shot, and
all of us know who gets tha kick who
have tried hunting with these antiquated
firearms in our boyhood days.
I have reduced these ideas to writing
because the publicity expert depends
more upon his Ideas than upon his ora
tory. Advertising without Ideas is the world's
most , ridiculous extravagance, Its- con
summate foolikhness. An idea Is nowhere
of greater price than in the market of
advertising wares. Yet an orator is some
times at least said to succeed without
what his critics are pleased to term, a
"discoverable idea-" And in closing allow
me to add that If the things I have held
up on your mental horizon are not ideas
It follows that they are my best substi
tute for them.