THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND. AFRIT, 26. 1903.
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I,ef ud Tendril. By John Burroughs.
J'rloe. (1.10. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
Roston.
Thirteen essays on animals and men
mostly animals by a master naturalist,
and, on the whole. delightfully and in
formally written. Mr. Burroughs says
that ns most of the essays wert written
in a bark-covered study, surrounded on
nil sides by vineyards, he thought It
appropriate to go to the vine for a title
fur the collection. The leaf, he think,
may stand very well for the nature
sketches, and the tendril may symbolize
those other pupers In which he has
groped his way in some of the great
problems, seeking some law or truth to
cling to.
Titles of chapters are: "The Art of See
ins; Things"; "The Coming of Summer";
"A Breath of April"; "A Walk In the
Fields"; "Gay Flumes and null";
"Straight Seeing and Straight Think
ing"; "Human Traits In the Animals';
"Animal .and Plant Intelligence"; "The
Tleasonnble but t'nreasonable Animals";
"The Grist of the Gods"; "The Divine
Soil"; "An Outlook Upon Life" and "All's
Higlit with the World."
When Mr. Burroughs talks' about ani
mals and natural history, he la really
worth listening to for the reader feuls:
"There Is a man who has been through
It all. But when Mr. Burroughs tries
to write an Emerson essay, he falls by
the way. Besides, he Is ofter unneces
sarily crude In his expressions of
thought. For Instance, his conclusion as
to sex-love, on the second last line of
page 271. That blunt way of writing
might not look out of place In the Bible,
but not in any other book.
The animal, says Mr. Burroughs, has
sensation, perception and power of as
sociation, and these suffice It man has
sensation, perception, memory, compari
son, ideality, judgment and the like,
which suffice him. He finds that there la
one Instinct or faculty that the animals
have far more fully developed that we
have the homing Instinct, which seems
to Imply a sense of direction that we
have not. The point is made that we
have lost It. because we have other fac
ulties to take Its place. Just as we have
lost that acute sens of smell that Is so
marvelously developed In many of the
four-footed creatures. Mr. Burroughs
suspects that we humans have lost an
other power that the lower animals may
possess something analagous to, or deal
with, what we call telepathy power to
communicate without words, signs or sig
nals. I do not sree with Stevenson that the
dug Is a snob. The key to a dog's heart
is kindness. He will always meet su half
av and more. I have leen asked why
the farm do usually shows eu-h hostility
to tramps and all disreputable-looking per
sona. It Is not their looks that disturb
the dog. but their smell a strange, un
known odor. This at once puts him on his
suard and excites his enmity. The don.
through his long Intercourse with man. has
become charged with our human quaJlty as
eieel Is charged by a magnet. I do not be
llss that animals ever commit suicide,
have any notlous of death, take any note
of tints, ever pat up any "bluff game" or
ever deliberate together, or form plans, or
forecast the seasons.
Several bear stories, as told by Presi
dent Roosevelut, are quoted, and one Is;
"President Roosevelt tells of a Colorado
bear he once watched at close quarters.
The bear was fussing around the carcass
of & detr. preparatory to burying it.
Once the bear lost his grip and rolled
over during the course of some move
ment, and this made him angry. He
struck the carcass a savage whack. Just
as a petted child will strike a table
against which It ha knocked itself."
An Index at the end of the book is
conveniently arranged. ,
To Metropolis. Br Vpton Sinclair, rrlre.
(l.M. Moffat. Yard Co., New York
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It Is with mingled feelings that one
approaches a review of Hilts novel de
pleting the vices of New York's vul-gar-rich
showing an atmosphere of
monkey dinners, highballs, married
women with .lovers, drunken, sottish
husbands; autoe; stock exchange gam
bling, and generally the yellowest of
the yellow. One authority has already
expressed this conviction of "The Me
tropolis": "It s a huge joke. It's fun
nier than Mr. Dooley." This is, how
ever, an extreme view to take. The
scenes are painted on a tremendous
canvas, ihowlng rictures of voluptuary
pleasure rivalling the debauchery of
Rome In the worst days of the Caesars.
The -situation are bold and dashing,
but although the book is nauseating
once or twice, it .doesn't l-.ave the raw
power and staying qualities of "The
Jungle." One can easily believe that
The Metropolis" has already proved
to be one of the ready sellers.
The hero. Allan Montague, Is a young
man who. all through the book, doesn't
fall In love with the heroine. As a
young lawyer, he comes to New York
from the Southland, and la introduced
to one of the sessions of the Loyal le
gion, where his dead father's war-
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starred comrades fight over again the
battles of the Civil War. Really,, the
best word-picture in the book is that
given on page 9, describing a battle
scene in the Spottsylvania campaign:
The approach of the regiment . . . they
lay down for a moment in a swamp, and
the mlnle-balls sang like swarming bees
and split the blades of the grass about
them. Then they charged over ground that
tan with human Mood. Tn the trenches
the bndlee of dead anil dying men lay three
deep and were trampled out of sight In
the mud by the feet of those who fought.
They would crouch behind the works, lift
ing their guns high above their heads, and
tiring into the throngs on lbs other eld;
again and again men sprang upon tha
breastworks and Bred their muskets, and
then fell dead. They dragged up cannon,
one after another, and Mew holes through
the logs and raked the ground with charges
of canlsten.
Had there ever before bsen a time in
history when breastworks had been charged
by artillery? . . . And then blasts of
canister sweeping tha tram-lies and blowing
scores of living and dead men to frag
meuta! And Into this hell of slaughter
new regiments charging. In lines four deep.
And suad after squad of the enemy striv
ing to surrender, and shot to pieces by
their own comrades as they clambered over
the blood-soaked walls. And heavy, tim
bers In the defenses shot to splinters. Since
ths world began, had men ever fought like
that?
A sharp turn from this stirring war
picture Is taken to the debauchery of
Now York's idle-rich who don't work,
who inherit million upon million of
dollars of papa's money, and whose
most difficult task in life it is to kill
the time that hangs so heavily on their
hands. Astors and Vanderbllts appear
under other names. Allan Montague's
brother. Ollle. is a typical member of
the newly-rich, and he Introduces Al
lan to his foolish world. Then serious
work creeps in for Allan. He gets a
retaining fee of 150.000 to prosecute In
a life Insurance scandal against what
Is called the Fidelity Company, only to
find in the end that he had been used
as a catspaw by one financial agent to
squeeze money out of others.
There Isn't much Socialism in the
book the Inference Is rather hinted at
that there Is such a yawning gulf be
tween bloated plutocrats and the projp
tariats that we In this country are rap
Idly drifting toward another Civil War.
I do not think it worth while to give
extracts from Sinclair's descriptions of
the "pleasures" of the Idle-rich. The
subject has already been cartooned and
paraded in this country to such an ex
tent recently that the reading public is
beginning to yawn.
The Simple Case of Susan, by Jacanes
l-- D. Appleton & Co.. Near
1o,k City, and the J. K. Glil Co.. rort
land. Novelists of tfie up-to-day, clever
sort are enterprising enouph to write
modern love storlP. with an atitomo
Me accompaniment, while a million
S;' f2f her, "torms in the background.
in point, because it fills the bill and is
th daintiest, moat sugar-plum sorlcty
ovm story published this Spring. Take
.tTul4you,to d,so-t room and It
will brlnp the sunshine of merry com
panionship; or take It to while away
the time on a tiresome railroad Jour
ner and It will make good,
"Susan" Is Mrs. Paul Abercrombie
Harwell Rpwland, whose husband is a
lieutenant In the United States Army
Here Is her plctu.e:
?uT?m r blu wlu promt m
unfulfilled; 8usn' mouth was a Kartet
bow of hop unattalnuM; Sun' hair was
an alUirliin- trap, tmtted with sunllght
Huaan'a not was retrousne. 8un was the
vr-recedmr rainbow, th mocklnw will-o'-the-wisp.
Imantribl mm the a-oiden miit of
dawn. irrepribi aa the perfume of a row
Irresistible as the son of the eirn She
waa unexpectedness in person, a quirk In the
eereptwl erder of thing-s. elusive as fame
fleeting aa moonbeams. She was still ador
able from thw tips of h,r boots to the Ust
riotou strands of her head. There was an
indisputable unanimity of masculm opinion
on this last point.
It will be seen by this description
that Susan was capable of doing- thing's.
Two of her friends are Dan Wilbur,
an idle younr man whose income is
liS.Tlu a year, and Lieutenant Faulk
ner, whose Income Is considerably less,
but who Is long-' In pedigree. These
two men love Marjorie Stanwoort,
daughter of Multimillionaire Stan wood,
and their different ways of courting a
maid are vastly entertaining. Of
course Faulkner, with the ardor of a
soldier. loved the maid, and when he
approached her father to ask for her.
he did so In a manner calculated to
take away that gentleman's breath:
My name Is lieutenant Robert E, l,c
Faulkner of Virginia. Thirty yeare old,
only wen nf ("Jenerel Putnam Faulknvr. of the
late confederate states, a tlshtln man who
at Iast on one occasion, took th Federal
forces over the high lumps; (trend son of
two Governors of Virginia In the davn when
public office was a patriotic obligation and
not a commercial transaction: and dir-ct
descendant of Amenedah and Charity Faulk
nr, who landed at Jamestown about !uT
and er. respectively b-st man and mat-mn-ef-fconor
at the Pocahontas-John Rolf
nuptials.
The stern father, however, objects
to Faulker's application to be his son-in-law,
and the warrior hies to Susan,
who arranges an elopement, and the
end Is a mst delicious mix-up, told
with inimitable humor.
riosiit Dare Fne Possd, Br Arthar
A. Denny, and edited br Alice Hirriraan.
IHQstraitMl. The Alice Herri man Com
pany, battle. Wash.
Students of Americana, and especially
those Interested in the history of toe Pa
ciHc Coast, will be very much interested
In this beautiful reprint of a book esti
mable for Its associations and knowledge
of local conditions. Nearly eery resi
dent of Seattle has hrard of the little
book with its modest brown covers of
the year IS, but found It difficult to
procure a copy. Inde?d, so great is the
demand for the original copies that dns
ens of collectors would probably appear,
were one cipy discovered and offered
for sale.
The present book belongs to a souvenir
t edition of wjiich only S50 copies have been
printed from type- and the type distri
buted. It Is In attractive shape, well
printed on good paper and the Ink Is of
that intensely black color that one's eyes
are rested. "
An eloquent record of pioneer days is.
presented, of time when men s souls
must have been tried by want, hunger
and Indians. Mr. Uenny was a rugrred
hero- Just the true pioneer that the
stormy times fittingly produced. In the
words of the editor:
Theee unpretentious annals prv vivid Im
pressions of patient, hard-working, loyal
wives and mothers; of little children play
ing around loc-house. on the shore or on
the wooded bluffs arising- from the blue
waters or the sound; of friendly Indians,
and. elm! others not so friendly; of long
days of fear and niffhts of dread: of men
who. venturing to the Iand of the Tardy
Sunset, worked and strove through the days
when souls were tried. Some conquered;
others fell in the hard, continuous strug
gle All were heroes. But beyond all, tha
author's splendid personality shines clearly
his absolute Integrity, gift of enthusiasm.
tndomlteMe pluck and enduring belief in
the future greatness of the city of which
he was one of the founders. No shaft of
marble or tAblet of bronse will perpetuate
Arthur A. Ienny"s brilliant and never-to-be
forgo. ten services to Seattle, as his
"earnest endeavor to state nothing but
facts."
Mr. Denny, who was born June 20, 1822.
left his home in Illinois to proceed to the
Pacific Coast April 10, 1851, traveled
across the plains, and In 10S days the
party reached this city. They came from
the Cascades in an old brig named the
Henry. Their baggage was the first
freight to pass over - the tramroad and
was taken over on a car propelled by
hand, while the voyageurs made the trip
on foot to the lower end of the rapids,
where they boarded the brig and made
the voyage to Portland by sail and the
help of the current. Portland's popula
tion was then 2000 or more.
Mr. Denny's history extends to 99 pages
and then come three pages of chronolog
ical notes of the early settlement of that
part of Washington Territory now prin
cipally embraced in what is now King
County. Following these pages are half
tones of honored pioneers, blockhouses,
churches, etc., pictures which cannot
probably be readily obtained elsewhere.
The back cover is tastefully designed
and in the center Is a picture of Mr.
Denny. He died January 9, 1899.
The Old Testament Problem. By Albert C.
Knudsnn. price. 25 cents. Jennings 4
ttreham. Cincinnati, Ohio.
The learned writer of this Instructive
little book is professor of Hebrew and
Old Testament exercises in Boston Uni
versity, and what he says is sure to
strengthen reverence for the book of all
books, and awaken ft desire to know it
better. The Insistent view Is taken that
the first task of the church In dealing
with the Old Testament has been to In
terpret It, to render It intelligible, and
Intelligible to the average mind. The
Old Testament, we are reminded, ts the
connecting link between heathenism and
Christianity. No oho can find fault with
our author's orthodoxy. -
Vayenae, by Percy Brebner. IUustrated..The
John McBrlde Co.. New York City.
MT'Brebner's previous novel' "Prin
cess Maritia." was so successful that
the lucky author has written another
romance about a mythical city called
Vayenne. "the capital of the Duchy of
Montvllllers, the center of an Independ
ent state, the dukes of which could
till link themselves with those Frank
Ish pirates who had conquered and
made their homes here. The hero is
Roger Herrlck, an Englishman of the
kingly type mentioned in "The Pris
oner of Zenda," and the 4'lavla of the
latter story lives again in Mr. Her
ricks" Christine de Liancourt. Herrick
shows himself to be a soldier and
statesman, and well qualified to be
leading man. "Vayenne" has a fighting
atmosphere, and reminds one of a
drawn sword the point of which is red.
Sunshine. By Rev. A. A. Wllllta. D. D.
Price, $1. Pearson Brothers, Philadel
phia. Pa.
Sixty years ago. and for a long time
afterward, this waa a current, famous lec
ture, for was not Dr. Willits one of the
principal speakers in the celebrated Neal
Dow campaign? Now. he Is the only
survivor of it. Dr. Willits is 87 years
old and Is still active on the lyceum
platform. This, his best lecture, has
been reprinted so that the sales will
go to the venerable lecturer. It Is happy,
cheerful, full of anecdote and wise ex
perience, and will be prized as a souvenir
by those who know or -have heard of the
author. It is -a classic
The Footprint, By Gouverneur Morris. $1.W.
Charles Bcrlbner's Sons, New York City.
Eleven well-told stories breathing
mysticism and love, and worthy in
every way of this experienced novelist's
art. "The Footprint" has a Bret Harte
tinge and "The Crocodile might have
been written by Poe. Some of the
tales are printed for the first time; and
others recently appeared in magazines.
Biixlne- MeWing MannaL By Clarence" A
Palmer. The Minnesota Typographic Co.,
St. Paul, Minn.
Were you ever suddenly appointed
chairman at a public meeting, and didn't
know "the rules of the Kame?" If so,
this little book would have helped you.
It gives a clear explanation of parlia
mentary laws, and can be accepted as a
condensed model of correct procedure.
Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs. By Wll-
heim Leiennecht. Translated by Brnest
ITntermann, C. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago.
For years, Liebnecht was often every
day In Marx's house and was received
as a part of his family. Consequently, a
most intimate and personal view of the
great Socialist, born in a Jewish family,
at Treves, Germany, May 5, 1818, Is here
presented.
The Sarretfl Hrb. "By Ferirus Hume. G. W.
Dillingham Co.. New York City.
With an old-fashioned plot, this Is a
story of aristocratic England, princi
pally concerning the adventures of
Lord Prellce. , It's fairly Interesting.
J. M. QUENTIN.
IX IJBRARY AND WORKSHOP.
".'an'tT go out In the ba' k-yard and play
In the garden, mamma?"
"Certainly not. child. Yon raurt stay in
doors and study your nature books." Life.
.
In her latest story. "In the Mountain's
fthadow," Mary Rodney has painted life
iha lm it ia- a ft m mnn f thsa nura-aul
of the mountains of Idaho.
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Frante Arrhenlus, whose new treatise on
cosmology Is called "Worlds in the Making."
is a Swedish scientist and director of the
Ph slco-i'hemtcal Nobel Institute at Stock
holm. Hie book ha-H been translated from
the German by Dr. H. Borns. and has just
pen published In this country.
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During this week will be Issued "American
Insects," by Professor Vernon 1. Kellogg.
This book Is a revision Cwith a brief ad
ditional chapter on reflexes, insects and in
telligence of one of the same name which
heretofore ha been Issued outside Its series.
It covers the entire American insect world.
Including moths, butterflies and beetles. t
which separate volumes are sometimes de
voted, and Is written la the siagularty inter
esting s'y t hat has made the author'
'Darwinism To-Jay" 4.dcip" ! ur-JecO one
of the non-ActlMi books mon la dvnan4 la
the New York Public libraries.
PrfessT CharTee lueblta of the Ta'ver
Ky of "bieaa;o. baa written a book he caUs
The Rellsiion of the Iemocrat." to be pub
lished shortly, rrofsaenr Zueblin la a popu
lar lecturer at some of our most prominent
unlverviiise. His forthcomlr; book tiaia
with t?ie qtzeetion of man's reHirious needs
and he present-day means of satisfying
Lhem.
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"Purple and limxun' is the title f
Samuel A. Uard'-nbirc e rw novel, to be
published Immediately. The wooine; of a
eeif-made Western Senator for the heart of
an Ambassador's daughter explains the vm
bolUm :n the title, and provides Mr. Uarden
hire with a nld that extends from hish
circles of Washington. I. C- and London
to the subterranean sphere of the last tS.de.
'The Farrier." by Rex Beach, has heea
sent In a heavy shipment to Australia. Other
Australian edition in response to eable de
mand are annuned as follows: "The Set
tler."' bv Herman Whltaker: Money Mastic.
by Hamlin Garland; "Walled In." by Kliia
beth Htuart I'heips: "eania Fes Partner."
by Thomas A. Janvier, and "The SqunW
Man." by Edwin MiUon Roy and Julie
Opp Fa vers ha m-
Most srudenta have heard of thatFrench
bo., "Fans Qui nl Que," whfeb, as the tit!
Indicates, contains in all ita length not
one " who" or "which." Ge'.et Burgett bas
accomplished almoat aa remarkable a lit
erary "stunt" In "The Heart Line." his
latest noveL One of his fads ts a disbelief
In the word jerery." Kxcept when quoted In
conversation, the word is not to be found
among the 139.0O0 of "The Heart Line,"
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Warwick leeplng's forthcoming novel will
be entitled "Bertrand of Brltany," and will
mark the return of te author to the medi
eval theme which he laid aside In his Inst
book. "A Woman's War." Bertrnnd Is the
Ill-favored son of a noble family, whose
career as an outlaw serves for an epic of
adventure and bloodshed, and throws Into
mellower light a love story with an ending
which Is said to be a novel one. Mr. Dop
ing is at present at his home In Batk Cot
tage in Battle. Sussex.
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It Is not surprising to learn that the Rus
sian authorities do not sennit "As the
Hapue Ordains: Journal of a Russian Pris
oner's Wife In Japan" to get Into the Czar'a
dominions. Possibly It Is also of some interest
to note that the author has received 110
book notices of which he says that but
one was distinctly hostile. This book, al
ready in Its fifth d rinting. continues to he
one of the most popular, and although It
appeared nearly a year ago, as yet no one
out Fide of the publishers' office seems to
have any Idea as to who the author la
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French rights of Nell Wyuian Williams
"The Electric Theft" have just been placed,
according to a letter received from the
author by his American publishers. The
translation of the book will be begun forth
with. The story Is one of an Bngliah engi
neer sent to Athens to discover the cause
of a theft of electricity from the Athenaeum
Electric Power Company. The suggestion
of an underground electric aiege of London,
carried on by means of the stolen power,
which was shipped to England In great
accumulators, is likely to be of special Inter
est to Continental reader.
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The illustrations in "Climbing Up to Na
ture," drawn by M. A. Claus. depict some
of the Thost dellclously humorous hits In the
story. One shows the guests at Mis' Jawk
1ns' tea party, and the disastrous results of
their first acquaintance, with a polished
hardwood floor. Another picture, even more
mlrth-provoklBK. shows the grocer's free
outing to Mis' Jawkins and her brood, in
consideration of her being one of his "paid
ups." There Is some trouble In stowing
them all away in one small team, but she
accomplishes It by such d 1 roc Hons as
"Naomi, you ninny, kneel down and grab
hold of the dashboard- Bethsada, git your
legs doubled up and git In front of me."
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William Helnemann. the well-known Lon
don publisher. Is a man of varied talents.
It Is known that he has successfully ap
peared In London tn a number of copy
right performances of modern standard
plays, and now he has been displaying his
skill as a photographer, lu a number of
striking sna-p-shota that he has taken of
William DeMorgan. author of "Somehow
Good." and "Joseph Vance." in Florence.
Although it Is known that Mr. DeMorgan is
considerably over 40. he does not look a day
over it In these pictures, all ef which -show
him In the best of humor. Most of tbera
were taken In the beautiful Cachlne Park,
one of them at the spot where Sholley
wrote "The Odo to the West Wind." BUM
another shows Mr. DeMorgan on the Lung
Arno near where Dante met Beatrice,
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Mental healing of disease and vice If the
two are not in fact identical, as some peo
ple claim has been finding emphatic hos
pitality among the churches. Boston is
usually friendly to a new cause, but it has
remained for the famous Emmanuel Church
of that city to make the most significant
Indorsement cf healing by hypnotic sugges
tion. Dr. Elwood Worcester, the rector, ex
pressed his feelings upon the matter In a
recent letter to Dr. John D. Quackenbos,
author of "Hypnotic Therapentics," the book
lately Introduced by the Harpers, which has
made so favorable an Impression on the
public "I have Just finished reading your
book," writes Dr. Worcester, "and wish to
congratulate you on having completed so
important a piece of work. It seems to me
one of the most practical and comprehen
sive statements of the value of hypnotic
suggestion which have been written in
English. It is certainly, as far as I know,
the most Important contribution on the
subject In our American literature."
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A report that got Into the Boston newspa
pers to the effect that Mrs. Eleanora Piper,
the celebrated medium, had returned to Eng-'
land for further Investigation by Sir Oliver
Lodge and other scientific men, has been
authoritatively dented. Her hu&band says:
"There Is no need for Mrs. Piper to go
abroad to be studied by the London Society
for Psychical Research because all her sit
tings at present are In charge of Professor
James, of Harvard, who la the American
representative of the London society." The
Idea that she was about to go back to Lon
Books Added to
The following books at the Publld Library
will go Into circulation April 27:
BIOGRAPHY.
ChBterfleld Llf of Lord Chesterfield; by
W. H. Craig. lyO".
Hole Letter of Samuel Reynolds Hole;
d. by G. A. B. Dewar. Jc.d. 2. 1907.
BOOKS IK FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
Baroja L a feria de los llacretoa.
Peres GaJdos Casandra; novela en clnco
porndas.
Rawaoa Eiograpbia del Tctor Gudllermo
Rawson; by Jacob Larrain. Ed. 3.
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL.
Jackson Persia, past and present; a book
of travel and research. 1VK.
Ransome Bohemia In London. 100T.
Tomalln Three vagabonds In Frlesland
with a yacht and a camera, 390T. .
FICTION.
Bjornson Captain Mansana.
J est-up & Canby. eds. Book of the short
story.
Lagerlof The wonderful adventures of
Nils; tr. by V. B. Howard.
Tracy The red year; a story of the
Indian mutiny.
Weyman Laid tip In lavender.
FINE ARTS.
Bumpui Cathedrals and churches of
Northern. Italy, n. d.
Burton porcelain; a sketch of Its nature,
art and manufacture. 16.
Eylau A Eylau The profeion of teach
ing music. ltK6.
Fraiiu The golden treasury of music;
a collection of 62 songs with piano accom
paniments; ed. by II- E. Krehbiel. 10o".
Haydn Twenty piano compositions; ed
by Xaver Sfharwenka. 3007.
"Ross-tti Dante Rossetti and the Pre
Raphaelite movement; by Esther "Wood.
Wagner Lyrics for baritone and base; td.
by Carl Annbruster. 1907.
W'yllle Sheffield plat. 1907.
HISTORY.
Hoyt The Merklenburg declaration of In
dependence. 1907.
Lea The lnaulsitlon in the Spanish de
pendencies: Sicily. Naples, Sardinia. Milan,
the Canaries. Mexico, Peru. New Granada.
Sparks National development, 1877-1885.
1907.
PHILOSOPHT.
.Tudd Psychology; general Introduction.
1907.
LITERATURE.
Bailey The novels of George Meredith;
a study. lf07.
Onant The Oriental tale In England In
the 18th century. 190H.
don, where she sprt last Fpr'.ng givtag a
ris of s-ances under the direction of a
committee of t'.e Ergiith society, may hae
arisen from eone intimation given early
this year. when I! ere ward Carringtow. e-ithoe
of "The Physical Phenmera X Spiritual
ism," was p-rmlited to study the convHtlns
unlr which, her "automatic" writings are
produced.
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Good Samaritan
Continued From Face C.
trlbuted, mom tha?i any othar man, to
fie wonderful amelioration of conditions
or the Kast Side poor that has taken
place of late ysars. He literally has
chaneed the map of that teeming region.
Mulberry Bend Park is one monument to
his ceaseless activity In behalf of tha
poor." The new style of tenement house
Is another. In large measure. He re
formed the system of municipal lodging.
Kvery movement for civic betterment In
the metropolis gets a part of his time
and energies. For these and other rea
sons he has been called New York's
'most useful citizen" by President Roosevelt-"
The well-known friendship of the
two men dates back to the day when
Rlls was a police reporter and Theodore
Roosevelt Commissioner of Police. In
those days, as In this, each man was the
other's ardent admirer and supporter.
Dr. Edward T. Devlne la the country's,
great charity Investigator and organiser.
He has done more, probably, than any
other Good Samaritan of today to make
of charity a science In the broadest sense.
Ho is the chief exponent of the doctrine
that the giving of alms without Investi
gation, and hence recklessly, only tenos
to increase poverty, not to relieve it. This
view is receiving wider currency con
stantly. As general secretary of the
Charity Organization Society, he has
made that - Important organization one
not only to relieve distress, but also to
act as an Intermediary and clearing-house
for Investigating and obtaining relief. So
great Is the confidence of many wealthy
New Yorkers In the society's ability to
distribute charity to the best interests of
all concerned that they never give a dol
lur to charity except through it or on lta
advice.
Though Dr. Devlne conducts all his
important Investigations personally, yet,
strange as it may seem, nothing very
exciting has happened to him In his go
ings about In all sorts of places where
one would naturally look for adventure
to befall an outsider. This is one of his
minor distinctions among our Good Sa
maritans. Before lie took up charity work to the
exclusion of other things Dr. Devlne waa
a teacher and then a lecturer on econom
ics. He waa one of the first men to lec
ture for the American Academy of Po
litical and Social Science when it was or
ganized In 1S81; five years later he be
came secretary of the Charity Organiza
tion Society. His choice as dispenser of
Red Cross aid to San Francisco resulted
from President - Roosevelt's personal
knowledge of his work and methods. Ex
pert charity workers are pretty generally
agreed that Dr. Devine can make a dol
lar's worth of relief go further than al
most any other man engaged in the mod
ern business of ameliorating distress.
Like most of the Good Samaritans of
today he is comparatively young; he will
be 41 next month. General Booth is the
dean In age; he waa 79 on April 10. Rob
ert C. Ogden, friend of Hampton Insti
tute and Southern education generally,
wfio began his mercantile career as an
errand boy in a hardware store, comes
next, with 71 years to his credit. Riis
will be 59 next month. All of the women
here mentioned and now active in char
itable work except one are in their
forties, and most of the men whose ages
have not been given are in their forties or
fifties.
All of which Is but another way of say
lng that Good Samaritan work of today
needs generally the service of the young
and strong, for It is work that Is not only
exacting, but also frequently strenuous,
as the lives of most of our prominent
Good Samaritans show.
(Copyright, 1908. by Dexter Marshall.)
Public Library
Marliham Lincoln and other poems. 1901.
"Woodberry Groat Writers; Cervantes,
Scott, Milton. Virgil. Montaigne, Shakea
pere. 1907.
RELIGION.
Wat son God' s message to th h uman
soul; the use of the Bible In the light of
the new knowledge; by Ian Maclaren
(pseud.)
SCIENCE.
Jppson A flora of Western Middle Cali
fornia. 190J.
Punnet t Mendellsm. Ed. S. lOT.
SOCIOLOGY.
Carpenter Civilization; Iti
cure. New ed. 190i.
cause and
Cubberley School fun da and thslr appor-
portionment. . Iiuft.
r Y The raid on prospsrity. if) or .
, Henderson American diplomatic anea
tlons. 1901. M
Kir km an Basts of railway rates and prf
vate vs. governmental management of rail
roads. 195.
RobertMin The eight-hour question, jfiim.
5ttraer City school expenditures 1606.
Thacher Initiative and referendum In
Oregon, n. d.
USEFUL ARTS.
Gill TJngine-room chemh'try. irv7.
Grelner Practical farm . chemistry; a
handbook of profitable crop reeding. 1801.
Kidder Building construction and super
intendence, v. 3. 190.
Latte. Handbook of American gas-angln-eering
practice. 1907.
Sevey Bean culture. 1907.
Splllman Farm grasses 0f the United
Stater. 1007.
Tracy Tomato culture. 1907.
BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DE
PARTMENT. Bolto Ornament! di divers! mn tavole ad
use desli artistt. Kd. 2.
Hitchcock Journeys in fiction. 1899.
Rand. MoNaily & Co.'a new Imperial atlas
of the world, fttftft.
Kicnarason The modern asphalt
ment. 19T.
pave-
Reid Concrete and reinforced concrete
construction. 19oS.
Roberta Practical adelca for marine en
gineers. Kd. 2. liOT.
Ruskln Works. SO-fti. 1O08.
United States. Court of claims. Case da
elded In term of 1904-1907. 1907.
BOOKS ADDED TO JUVENILE DEPART
MENT. Aikin A Barbauld Erenlnirs at horn
Eggleaton Long knives; the etory of how
th- won the Wet.
Favorite fairy tales.
Indubti ial school association. Roe ton.
Wood-working tools; how tn them
Kanktn The girls of Gardenvflle.
RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF A
MAN NEARING DEATH
East-Side Nonogenarian Writes a Remarkable
Letter Expressing His Disbelief in Future Life
A.V OPEN letter to Mrs. Julia It
ry J. Warren Ketfer. Jr.. Lincoln.
Nebraska.
LENTS. Or.. R. F. T. No. 1. April K.
Dear- friend and relative: Tour desire,
to know my reason for not believing tn
God. Cbrist and the Pibls aa a divine
revelation Is creditable and proper, and I
will icladly endeavor to do It. although In
two weeks I shall enter on my ninetieth
year and. feeling; the Jaws of death clna
uipr upon me, failing tn memory. It is
quite a task, and cm only feebly and
briefly he accomplished. These are my
arguments to sustain my theory:
To start, thtre are three things that
were never made: SHace, which had to
be: Time, which hart to tick; Matt.-r.
which cannot be destroyed. That which
la made can be destroyed. Matter makes
world's plants and animals. Tltese out
be destroyed, but matter cannot.
With these three things, chemistry
solves all combinations and dissolutions
of matter, and shows how life star la and
death comes.
There Is no place In space where mat
ter does not exist. Matter attracts mat
ter and forma worlds and satellites. The
sun aa a body tn our system, as in all
systems, got tha start tn collecting mat
ter and Is 821,000 miles In diameter, and In
ita gravity, or attraction to the center,
creates heat and heat makes light. Ita
heat la so great that It cannot be meas
ured. Intense heat reduoea the hardest
substances to gas, which is thro'vn off
from the sun thousards cf miles in a
minute and when condensed by attrac
tion, forma bodies of matter which are
attracted to larger bodies of matter and
form worlds, and In process of time be
come suns. When our sun shall have
beootriB extinct, thla new body, or sun,
wilt become a center of attraction aa has
been the case from all time.
All matter is governed by law, and that
law is made by the combination of mat
ter. Take charcoal and niter and combine
them in certain proportions, and you have
a substance which, when lighted, fritters
away until consumed. That Is Its law.
Take other proportions and it flashes off
at once. That La Its law. Take other
material and you have a quicker explo
sive. That Is its law, and these propor
tions will always develop the same law.
Mind. however great, cannot develop a
physical law. It cannot say "World, ex
ist," "Sun, shine," and make It so. They
are made by law. and that" law is made
by the combination of matter.
Life Is the chemical product of matter
through heat and mixture developing
protoplasm, which Is 'rallied cell life,
where all organism starts. Evolution
bring us to the present standard, and
each organism of the present existence
starts from the original protoplasmic
cells and passes through each evolution
ary development until It presents itself,
as a representative of Its Immediate par
ent or family. So all organism starts
from the same source and Is related,
but branches off and makes Its existence
In life In form and habit, according to Its
necessities and surroundings.
Man branches off from an animal called
tha lemure, with feet and hands to grajsp,
similar to man's. Man, like him, had a
long head and walked on all fours, dumb
as the beasts of the forests, seeking food,
killing and being killed, without home or
shelter, learning to walk erect and talk,
using his hands, gaining experience,
placed himself on advantage ground,
ceasing to gnaw hie food lika carniv
orous animals from the bodies of dead
animals, but cut It with stone and
knlvea. and, walking erect, his head
changed from long to round, his mouth
receding formed the chin; growing In
knowledge, by experience, outclassed
all other animals.
It Is now determined that man has
been on this earth 400,000 years, com
ing up from the bloody brute beast to
the present social Intelligence of today
by his experience and reason alone.
Mo animal or Insect can have a
thought or reason without a brain.
When the brain Is destroyed, thought
ceases. - Thoughts cannot be punished.
They have no physical existence. They
are the product of the brain and are
not responsible or tangible. The brain
can be punished, but when destroyed
is gone to Its proper elements; no sen
sation, no life. It is nonsense to say
a dead body, thought or soul can be
punished. Soul cannot be anything but
thought or feeling, and when death
comes they cannot have a tangible ex
istence and are obliterated, lost, unless
preserved by tradition or recorded.
That which is made can be destroyed.
Thoughts are made by the brain.
We have a good history of the Egyp
tians 2000 years before Moses' day.
They were advanced In art, science and
agriculture. They were known as
disc worshipers; they worshiped the
sun, earth and water the things they
needed.
They got their Ideas from tha preced
ing nations. Moses' God never came Into
existence until Moses was about 40 years
of age. About 19 ha murdered an
Egyptian and fled to save his life. When
he returned he told his people they had
a God and must go three days' Journey
in me wilderness to worship him and
take all their possessions and borrow
from the Egyptians silver, gold and wear'
lng apparel with a promise to return them
Immediately after their worship. After
much persuasion of their masters they
accomplished their purpose. Moses, for.
getting his God worship, ran his tribe
away. Having six days the start before
the Egyptians discovered the fact and
many more days before they emild gather
a sufficient force. Moses and his tribe
escaped.
. Moses became their supreme ruler. Ths
tribe being as Ignorant as cattle, having
been In servlis bondage 160 years, obeyed
him strtotly and believed him without
question. Moses was educated In ail tha
learning of the ages by the Egyptians
Naturally smart, brutal and immoral,
being a murderer, a thief and a liar, he
was prepared for anything favoring his
personal eaee, interest ana glory. tin
Moses made his unknown God excel all
the thirty thousand Greek gods by giving
him all power, yet not able to overome
"chariots or Iron." All goodness, yet or
dering the destruction of Amalek and all
his belongings men, women. Infants and
sucklings; killing captive women because
they were married and raping the vir
gins; ordering Ezekiel to eat human and
cow dung, and every other abominable
act In the catalogue of crime favorable
to Moses or his tribe, making his God
have a double character In every act and
attribute. He made him to have all
knowledge, yet he had to go around to
Inquire. He made him to be everywhere
present, yet he had to go to the Garden
of Eden. v He made him have a body like
man's, walk, sit, smile, breathe, talk
and occupy all space, yet space held
worlds, plants and animal. God has
been seen and talked with. He ordered
Ezekiel to He on one side 390 days and
40 days on the other side. Moses, Aaron,
Nabad and Ablhu and 70 of the elders of
Israel saw God and did eat and think
and many others saw him. Then It Is
declared no man can see him and live.
The Greek gnds are all dead; Moses'
God is very sick and will soon follow.
Christ, It Is claimed, waa th son of
God and was as old as his Father, and
"without him nothing made that was
made." thereby robbing his father of
his six days' labor; born of a virgin
who was impregnated by the shadow
of the Holy Ghost without her knowl
edge, which was rape. Now. common
Intelligence, observation and exps-
rlen.-e knows that to be a lie. for it
never has repeated
Cslrus. Roman historian, personally
knew Joseph and Mary, ar.d says Jo
seph divorced Mary on the ground
that sh was a prostitute, and says shs
was a stroller snd cohabited with a
Roman soldier and bore a son who was
called Tanthea. after the soldier'
name. feiru wrote extensively
against Christians and never mentions
the nam of Christ. Scholars say that
Christ is not a proper name, hut the
same as Messiah, meaning king or
ruler. The Rev. McClintoek. a Chris
tian bigot. In McClintoek snd Strong's
Cyclopedia of Hlbllcal Theology. IS
forced to give up th personality of
Christ, and says. "Christ Is not, strictly
speaking, a propr nam, but a desig
nation of office. .lesu Cbrist. or.
rather. Jesu, the Christ. Is a, mode of
expression, as John the Baptist or Fap
tlser." Historian . mention particularly
very great man that ever lived at
that day, but ChrUt name does not
appear, though from the gospels ha
was the greatest man that ever was
on this earth. That passage In Jo
sephus ts pronounced sn Interpolation,
a fraud. The gospels are the only
document paktng of Christ In exist
ence of that day, and they were writtesi
over 100 year after his. death, and no
one know who wrote them, and at that
day they had no other standard than
writing of an Imaginary hero. They
were taken up by the Christian sect to
gain power, property anil ease, and
forced upon the world by the slaughter
In every conceivable form of cruelty
of SO.000.000 of human beings by th
clargy. They burned the libraries, de
stroyed every vestige of civilization
that did not point to their belief, and
brought on the dark ages, which lasted
for a thousand years. When their
power became broken, through oceans
of blood, and free thought once more
began to make progress and redeem
the world from darkness.
Tou ask what I would give the peo
ple instead of Christianity. In answer,
I would give liberty; not believe or be
damned, but tiilnk and bo wise. I
would give morality, not destroy the
unbeliever, but give education In the
sciences and new discoveries and not
educate to fight them as Christians
are doing and have done to keep the
old thought, barbarism, the hcadllglit.
I would give sociality, kindness, not
division, hatred and war. I -would
give honesty, and not make liars of
those who join the church by making;
them say they bellevo in Clod the myth,
Christ the child of a shadow, tho Bible
which teaches polygnmy, witchcraft,
faith moving moving mountains, what
soever ye ask In faith ye shall re
ceive. Instead of weakness. I would give
courage and manliness, tipeak out,
look up, and not cringe like a criminal,
a slave. The Bible they compel yon
to say you believe contains 123 flat
contradictions. I will add ono more to
those I have already referred to with
their text to support It.
AFFIRMATIVE.
God Is kind, merciful and good. The
Tuord la very pitiful and of tcndr
mercy (Jamea v:ll).
For he doth not afflict willingly, nor
grieve th children of men (Sam.
lii:33).
For his mercy endureth forever (1
Chron. xvl:34).
I have no pleasure in the death of
him that dleth, salth the Lord God
(Ezek. xvlil:R2).
The Lord is good to all, and his ten
der mercies over all bis works (Ps.
cxxxxv:9).
Who will have all men to he saved
and to .come unto the knowledge of the
truth (1 Tim. 11:4).
God Is love. (1 John lv:16.)
Good and upright Is the Lord. (Ps.
xxv : 8.)
NEGATIVE.
God Is cruel, unmerciful, destructive
and ferocioua. I will not pity, nor hRve
mercy, but destroy them. (Jer.
xlil:14.)
And thou shalt consume all the peo
ple, which the Lord thy God shall de
liver thee; thine eye shall have no pity
upon them. (Deut. v!i:16.)
Now, go and smite Amalek, and ut
terly destroy all that they have, and
spare them not, but slay, both man and
woman, Infant and suckling. (1 Sam.
xv:23.)
Because they had looked Into the
ark of the Lord, even he smote the
people fifty thousand, and three score
and ten men. (1 Sam. vl:19.)
The Lord thy God la a consuming
Are. (Deut lv:24.)
The Lord cast down great stones
from heaven upon them. (Josh. xiv:ll.)
The balance of the 12S contradictions
are as well supported by the text as
the above.
The Bible made It proper for a man
to have his wife murdered It he got
tired of her by charging her with In
fidelity and taking her to a priest (
consecrated x-lllaln to administer poi
son. If innocent, God would take cars
of her; if guilty, death took her. Death,
always took her. The Bible made It m
sin for her to bear children. She had
to purify herself by a sin offering and
other penalties, without giving her s,
choics whether she would be a mother
or not. The Bible made her depend
on her husband for knowledge, forbade
ber to teach, mult her a slave to her
husband; she had to obey him. Tha
Bible legislated against her and brutal.
Ised her. Its, devotees have followed
It up to this day. Yet she has been,
more merciful, more loving, more re
fined, more honest, more skillful; a het.
ter employee than man, and paid less,
encouraged less.
What would I do with the BlbleT
I would expunge the dirty, vulgar pas
sages and leave the book to be read
as other books of an age of ignorance
and brutality sprinkled with bright
gems among heaps of rubbish.
The first formation of tha church
was ths trus Biblical doctrine. Ignor
ance and barbarism. Th Testament
says Christ came with fire, sword and
division. Every move for the better
ment of mankind has been against
these fundamentals of Christianity, and
the only reason they are not enforced
today la th want of power. Man Is
civilizing ths church instead of the
church civilising man.
If half th effort were spent In ths
betterment of this life that Is spent on
the future life, more downfallen would
be uplifted, less pain would come to the
suffering, more Joy would gild sorrow
mors nobility displace disgrace and
sooner bring universal brotherhood.
I submit these views in all kindness
for your enlightenment and Judgment,
and believe me, as sver, the same.
v JAMES STOUT.
Ansuer-tlie-JJoor Dor.
A family residing In Groveport Is
mourning th loss of It dog. The par
ents In the home are unfortunately
deaf and dumb and are often left in
th house alone. The dog had been
trained to answer knocks at the door
so that calls could be known. It would
upon hearing a rtng at the door. Im
mediately go to on of Its masters and.
by pulling at the clothing, attract at
tention, and then It would lead th
way to the door. It was also trained:
to run errands. Columbuua O. Dispatch, .