THE SUXDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JUNE 21, 1903.
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Tb Money id, by Julio C. Van Dyke.
Charles Scrlbner's Sons, Ntw Ycrk City.
A stirrln? appeal for a return to moral
standards in these days of Mammon wor
ship, when, In speaking of a ipan, the
question mostly pushed to the front Is:
"How much lias he? What is he rated
at?" A weariness is here expressed with
these days of greed of gain, but Mr. Van
Dyke insists that his book is not one sim
ply of constructive criticism. It is no
ticed that he does not specify a cure for
the ills on which he sheds his lamp rays
and that his undercurrent of thought is
decidedly pessimistic. Yet what he says
Is couched in scholarly garb and must
awaken both lntarest and thought. What
a pity he writes with such a wail, espe
cially when he nnds fault with the immi
grant of today and longs for the "good"
Immigrant of far-back colonial days.
Here Is the Van Dyke view of Ameri
can money-madness:
When a nation becomes monomaniacal,
making unto Itself a tolden image which
it fails down before and worships, when
It acts and legislates for money only, when
it turns ,the arts and sciences into ma
chines for gain, and scorns the higher edu
cation and morality of life, when it plun
der and tramples under ' foot the most
beautiful country in the world; when, drunk
with its own power. It revels in gluttony
and becomes boastful of its own selfishness;
when it forgets the goodiy heritage of its
history, forgets its ideals and faiths and
beliefs and stants upon a career of greed
and grasp, harm who it will or may, again,
what hope Is there for happiness? The
pace is one leading to destruction.
The text of this paragraph is the pro
portions of capital and labor:
If the situation were put down in figures
It would read something like this: Organ
ized labor with us can muster something
over 2.000,000 members: incorporated capi
tal possibly 200,000 members. For the sake
of argument, let . us concede 2.000.000 to
capital and 5.000.00 to both. There are
some 80,000.000 or 90,000.000 of people in
the United States, but let us discard all but
the 30.000.000 of actual workers casting out
the women and children with the lame, the
halt and the blind. Our figures now indi
cate that the 5.000.000 of capital and labor,
w-ith their various quarrels and bickerings,
are keeping 25.000.000 in continuous hot
water. It is the differences of these peo
ple that are not only turning the business
worM tnpsey-turvy every few weeks, but
wff. professional and social world as well,
i hey practically control the cost of living
throughout the country, and every time
tltey come to blows the cost is materially
enhanced. In Itself that Is sufficlnet to
disconcert the average Individual in the
community. He does not know where he
stands. Add to this the unhappiness that
Is bred of these Quarrels, the staie of un
rest, the mental strain of living in a never
ending jangle; end it Is not to be wondert d
at that the suffering community in between
should Anally exclaim in its wrath: "A
plague o' both your houses!"
In wondering whether the tenant can
take .the landlord's place:
But we may paliae for the moment with
the conclusion that the rich man is a trus
tee of. wealth, whether he so desires or not,
adding only his further suggestion, that
Fine wealth must be administered for the
T?nent of the many it is perhaps us well
that it should remain in the hands of one
man of experience and executive ability,
as In the keeping of a thousand of less
experience and less ability. The Duke of
Bu.-clueh knows how to handle his trust
of land, as Mr. Carnegie his trust of a great
Industry. Therefore, why not let them
handle? Could the thousands of tenants
and wage-earners control ai.d administer
for themselves as well? It Is doubtful. The
argument for restricting individual control,
by limiting fortunes to a hundred thousand
or a million dollaTs Is not strong. Besides,
there are serious disadvantages to be con
sidered. How will you carry through great
enterprises lrite trans- A merican railways
when no man has more than $1,000,000 with
which totake the Initiative? Would it e
possible to construct tunnels under the Hud
son River at New York by rasslng around
th hat for thousand-dallar sutscrlptions?
One may not admire plutocracy. Gen
erally speaking, the materialism of It Is
depressing, its arrogance Is galling, and the
low ideals of many of its members are con
temptible. But It nevertheless has Us uses,
is perhaps necessary to modern life, and
very often is to be credited with wise action
and true philanthropy.
I seem to have heard before these one
sided Ideas about our 1908 immigrants:
Nor is there any trust to be placed in, the
idea of lifting them (Immigrants) up to our
standard by association, by marriage and by
education. They do not rise perceptibly,
but the American goes down to meet them.
We are na nobler than our most ignoble
constituency. To talk of assimilating such
a mass as cornea In each year, to think of
making them like ourselves by a process of
public achooling for the children. Is to shoot
arrows at the sun. Education may improve
any given endowment, but II will not cre
ate a new endowment. People are what
they are born as regards natural gifts; and
education will not beat it out of them. Be
sides, the newcomers object to having their
birth-gifts beaten out of them, to being
born again. They do not want to he assimi
lated, do pot want to become American.
They want our gold: that is all. We shall
not change their nature nor their character
to any marked degree. The camel that was
allowed to put his head, under the Arab
tent did not turn into an Arab; but he con
tinued to occupy the tent to the owner's
undoing.
"Our author is at variant with the ad
vertising spirit of the age:
The newspapers and magazines are mere
thin butterlns of reading matter between
two huge slices of business announcements.
. . . Again, look at Its signs or escape
them If you csni' Every available spot
where human eyes could wander ems occu
pied by a sign setting forth In exaggerated
language the merits of a face powilr, a
patent razor, or an alleged Scotch whisky.
Signs in wood and glass and metal, signs
In gold, sliver and brass, signs animate and
Inanimate Jump at the passer-by like a mad
dog or fix him with a manlatal glitter from
their niche. At night the bewilderment is
increased by the ingenious application of
electricity. IJghts In rows make up huge let
ters ten feet or more in height, designs of
articles for sale are outlined with lights,
and colored classes are brought In to
heighten the effect. Then there is the ad
ditional ingenuity of moving, dancing lights
to make one dlszy. A table water in a
huge tumbler continues to effervesce in
bubbles of light all night long, flashes of
lightning point the way to some one's
vaudeville performance, or against the sky a
waving banner l ftruck by an eiectrio
searchlight to call your attention to a new
brand of soap.
On reading such a wail, it is pernils
lhle to state that the American tiubllo
has become, for the past two years at
"ast, surfeited with the severely critical
wo&ciisr have s&totzze'jz
hleas now advanced by Mr. Van Dyke.
He should change his vision; at present
he sees everything in a "yellow" light,
and lacks patriotism. If his Eastern en
vironment stijl continues to dwarf his im
agination, let him leave the effete East
and take long, good breaths of Western
air. Then he might learn to know his
country his real country!
If I were a Judge, I'd condemn Mr. Van
Dyke to live one whole year In a certain
Western city famous for its rosea, snow
clad mountains, easily seen on a swelter
ing July day, and its c-r-a-w-ftsh. One
year after taking this medicine, there
would be a different Van Dyke. He'd be
a better American.
Mind in the Making. By E. J. Swift. Price.
1 1.50. Charles acribner's Sons, New York
City.
The"writer of this excellent study In
mental development Is professor of
psychology and pedagogy in Washing
ton University, St. Louie, Mo., and In
his book he makes a strong plea for
the personal element in education and
for the extension of the experimental
method.
Some of the subjects discussed are:
Standards of human power; criminal
tendencies of boys, their cause and
function; school and the Individual; re
flex neuroses and their relation to de
velopment; some nervous disturbances
of development; psychology of learn
ing: racial brain and education; ex
perimental pedagogy; school-mastering
education; and man's educational re
construction of nature.
Throughout the entire book there
isn't one chapter that Is not plenti
fully illustrated by human Incidents
that have really happened. For In
stance, Linnaeus' gymnasium director
would have made a cobbler of him, tell
ing his father that he was unfit for a
learned profession. During his whole
Jife Charles Darwin, as he admitted, was
singularly incapable of mastering any
language. Harriet Martlneau's parents
considered her mind dull, unobservant
and unwieldy, and she was the first In
her family who failed in the matter of
handwriting. Napoleon Bonaparte did'
not distinguish himself in his studies
at the military school In Paris, and he
stood in the final examination for
graduation forty-second in his class.
Samuel Johnson was Indolent: "My
master whipped me very hard. With
out that, sir, I should have done noth
ing." he said. John Hunter, the cele
brated surgeon, at 17 years old was
unable to read or write. Oliver Gold
smith's teacher in his early childhood
thought him one of the dullest boys
that she had ever tried to teach. Henry
Ward Beecher at 10 years of age ac
cording to his sister, Mrs. Stowe "was
a poor writer, a miserable speller, with
a thick utterance and a bashful reti
cence which seemed like stolid stupid
ity. He had great deficiency in verbal
memoryV-a deficiency marked In him
through life." And so the list goes on.
Possibly the chapter headed "Crim
inal Tendencies of Boys" will cause the
most discussion, because of Its sensa
tional disclosures relating to defective
youth. Confessions relating to young
people who lied and stole are given,
and one professor in an Eastern col
lege said that he and his playmate
generally had no regard for the truth
when an untruth was likely to save
them from punishment. Ferrlanl Is
quoted as saying that In his opinion
"from 8 to 14 years, the child is almost
always a thief."
This quotation will be found lllumina-'
tive:
The so-called criminal Instincts of chil
dren are the racial survivals of acts that
In past ages fitted their possessors to sxir
vlve. They were not merely righl. but
necessary at that time, and they wens right
because they were necessary and because
they stood for the best of which primitive
man could conceive. This period of sav
agery, or semi-crlminallty. Is normal for all
healthy boys. Those whose surroundings
are favorable to a life of crime continue
in it, finally to end in the reform school,
and still later, probably. In the peniten
tiary, while those of better surroundings
pass through It without permanent moral
Injury, and. perhaps. Indeed, with a strong
character and a keener Insight Into human
nature.
But Professor Swift insists that the
eo-called dullness and idleness of chil
dren are in most cases due to a failure
to understand them and to give them
proper subjects of study. He concludes
that, barring the degenerates, and they
are comparatively few, children should
not be classed as good and bad. "They
have tendencies and Instincts, tome of
racial and others of family inheritance,
but their permanent dispositions are
yet unformed arid will be mainly deter
mined by their environment, which, of
course. Includes all that enters Into
their experience and education."
The Tjost Goddess. By Edward.. Barron.
Price. $1.50. Henry Helt A Co., New
York City.
Patterned after the Rider-Haggard
style, this story of adventure has plenty
of excitement and fight. Lieutenant
Winthrop, late of the American Navy,
starts in a steamer to reach the head
waters of the Amazon River to find a lost
goddess in the person of an American
girl who Is supposed to be detained by
Indians, against her will. One Katharine
Randolph, an Indian Princess In disguise,
and a descendant of the Mayas the fore
runners, of the Aztecs is one of the
party, and the latter has a stirring jour
ney up the historic river, only to find
that the story of the waiting ' goddess
existed in a bad man's Imagination. It's
a case of the best In life exiBtlng nearest
home.
People and Problem. By Fabian Franklin.
Price, H.60. Henry Holt Co., New
York City.
Mr. Frankjln Is known In the world' of
letters and journalism as the .accom
plished editor of the Baltimore News
from lsOo-1908, and sometime professor of
mathematics In the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. This book of 144 page consists o( a ut-
zcesz zzssr zzep zzt-sezf.
ries of addresses and editorials, and
shows their writer to be a man of vaned
, intellectual gifts. No one can accuse him
of being- afraid to spfak out,' his utter
ances belns distinguished, for their vigor
of thought. One of his most scholarly
estimates is that on the life of William
Ewart Gladstone, while it is generally
agreed that his pro-Boer utterances as
read in his editorial of December 15. 1899,
represented a noisy . minority. Mr.
Franklin's views on American politics are
Illuminative.
Judfre Waxen'a pocket -Book of Politic. By
William J. Lampion. G. W. Dillingham
& Co., New York City.
A political campaign funbook. Judge
Wabash Q. "Waxen is supposed to be the
member of Congress for Wayback, and
by means of curious spelling which ho
has adopted as his own he, .with sage
wisdom, comments in crisp sentences on
politics and office-seeking, as he finds
them. In exterior appearance", his book
resembles a pocketbook. Samples of
Wax em humor:
In God We Trust la about the only Trust
I know of that don't have a lobbyist er so
'round Washington some time er other
tea chin statesmen bizness prlnclpels.
I know a woman's rights woman that
says she d ruther vote than eat, and I
ain't supprised at her taste. I et supper
at her house once.
Poverty ain't no disgrace In politics.
It's wueL It's defeat.
Women In politics Is a contradiction.
A rolling vote gethers no boss.
A man never rely gits Into politic till
politics gits Into him-.
Th Chaperon. By C. N. and A. M. Wil
liamson. The McClure Company, New
York City.
Breathing; a vacation spirit, this novel
tells how Mis Phyllis Rivers and Miss
Van Buren inherited a motor boat and
91000 and went about Holland as tourists.
The story Is divided jnto four parts, two
being told by the young women named,
and by Rudolph Brederode and Ronald
Lester Starr. The central notes are re
partee and love making. Karl Anderson
furnishes suitable illustrations. '
The Red Skull. By Fergus Hume. Price.
$1.50. Dodge Publishing Company, New
York City.
Sensationalism boiled to an essence.
The scene is laid in Cornwall, England,
and the story Is built around the murder
of John Bowring, a South African mil
lionaire. His son, Morgan, is insane. The
skull mentioned in the tale was col
ored scarlet, and around the forehead
to the back was a broad band of silver,
like a crpwn. Not high-gTade fiction.
Dinkelspiel's Jjeiterg to Iooey. By George
V. Hobart. Illustrated. G. W. Dillingham
Company, New York City.
Mr.- Dinkelspiel's opinions, expressed In
amusing German-American dialecL- have
been floating around for years through
the medium of selected newspapers, until
the query has been voiced, "Who Is Din
kelspiel, anyway?" This volume of 190
pages is the answer. It's chock full of
quaint fun.
J. M. QUENTIN.
IN LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP.
The portrait shown on this book page is
that of Charlrs Rann Kennedy, who wrote
the play. "The Servant in the House."
whirh was reviewed at length in last week's
Oregonlan.
BosMes her literary activities, whirh are
strenuous and constant, Gertrude Atherton
will divort herself in Munich this Summer
with musical interests, of which that city
In a pronounced center. Mrs. Atherton Is a
devoted student of opera.
'
"The Shoulders of Atlas," Mary E. Wll
klns Freeman's forthcoming- novel, which
will be issued next week, is to have a spe
cial printing, for an edition to Australia,
where this famous New England story
writer has specially large and enthu
sia&tio audience.
New fiction for the Autumn book season
Is in active preparation by Houghton, Mif
flin Company, and among the authors on
their llt will be Mary Johnston, Clara
Ixuis Burnham, Alice Brown, Charles Kk
brt Craddock, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward, C. Hanford Henderson and Harry
James Smith.
Mar Pemherton, whose "Sir Richard Ks
combe" will appear within one week. Is
at hU hom, Troston Hall, at Troston. Suf
folk. Mr. Pemberton was formerly a resi
dent of Hampstead, and withdrew a few
months ago to his present cottage, where
he expects to be established for an Indefi
nite time.
"The Woman Pays, a novel upon a
theme that its title sufficiently indicates.
Is about to be published in New York. Its
author is Frederic P. Iadd, who has also
written "As a Man otri," a one-act dram
atization, of which has had some success
on the stage. The seen of The Woman
Pays" Is laid In New York.
The demand for Anne Warner French's
humorous tale, "The Rejuvenation of Aunt
Mary," appears to be persistent. Another
and tenth reprint has just appeared and
it ts called the players' edition. In honor
of the dramatic version of the story in
whlh May Robson la appearing. It is illus
trated with photographic scenes from the
play.
It is worth while noting that the author
of "Handbook of, the Trees," Rome.yn Beck
Hough, dedicates his book "To the mem
ory of my father. Dr. Franklin B. Hough,
who as the pioneer commissioner of- for
estry nrst strove to arouse the public to
check the course of destruction of the
American forests and establish the princi
ples of forestry; and to my mother, whose
Interest in the plan of this handbook and
enjoyment In Its progress have been, among
the pleasures of the preparation.'
The home of Warwick Deeping, at Battle.
Sussex, England. Is in the old Hastines
district, which In Itself explains the quaint
name of Battle. Gate cottage, Mr. Deep
ina's houpe, is much more man a century
old; Indeed, no one knows the exact num
ber of years It has stood, so familiar a
landmark ha It become. It Is very small,
very low, with little old-fashioned windows,
and almost, submerged with ivy. Here Mr.
Deeping wrote a great part of the romantlo
"Bertrand of Brittany," his latest novel,
e -
In Maurice Hewlett's new novel, "Half
may Houw," he .has written a iievel of
modern Hie of today In England. Against
a background of social life In the country
In London, sketched In a brilliant way with
witty dialogue and vivid, humorously sa
tirical suggestion of many minor parson
age, he tells the story of a country girl,
a governess, who marries a man of higher
position and much older than herself. She
has two other men in love with her, one
masterful, dominating, conventional in life
and feeling, able and selfish ; the other a
delightful, unconventional gentleman-vag
abond, a painter of landscapes and an en
thusiastic botanist who wanders over the
country planting strange plants In odd cor
ners of England, living by the roadside in
a wagon, the "Halfway House" Is full of
pleasant talk and whimsical Ideas. The
struggle of the girl, her gradual develop
ment, her dealings with the three men and
her final decision make up an unusual
novel.
New books received: Over Against Green
Peak, by Zephine Humphrey. $1,25 fHolU;
The Essential Life, by Stephen Berrien
Stanton, 1 (Scribner's).
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These books were received through the
kindness of the J. K. Gill Company, of this
city; Dinkelspiel's Letters to Looey; Judge
Wax em's Pocket Book of politics; The Red
Skull; The Lost Goddess; Tne Money God;
The Chaperon; Mind in the Making; Over
Against Green Peak, and The Essential Life.
T. H. B. Eecott's "Kins; Edward VII and
His Court" and "The Story of - British
Diplomacy" are to be published in this
country la a few days. Both are written
In the gossipy and entertaining Btyle of
Mr. Escott'e other works. Mr. Escott has
long- been the leading- editorial writer for
the London Stan-dard, and has recently
suoceede-d John Morley as editor of the
Fortnightly Review.
All fresh and salt-water fishermen will
welcome Louis Rhead's latest addition to
outdoor literature. "The Book of Msh and
Pishing." It cover in a most .systematic
and comprehensive way not only the meth
ods of capturing all kinds of sea and fresh
water fish, hut tells how. and when, and
where to get them, the right way to keep
them fresh and to shtp them, and finally
Tiow to cook them. This is one of the flrBt
ooks dealing in a thorough way with the
question of salt-water game fishes on both
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and It
oupht to become a standard of reference on
that subject.
H. O. AmoM-Forster., in his "English Socialism-
of Today" while conceding the
irood intentions of the leaders of that move
ment, declares that Socialism "must inev
itably aggravate the III from which we
suffer, must Increase the poverty it Is de-?
signed to remove, must intensify the class
distinctions which it professes to obliterate,
and Instead of bringing- peace must bring
hatred, strife and, possibly, open war." Mr.
Arnold-Forster also realizes the need for
change, and In his constructive suggestions
pleads that land transfer should be made
simple and cheap, and that rates and taxes
on land should be diminished.
Chales Hawkes, the blind naturalist and
author, whose book on the beaver has
proved such a success, is shortly to bring
out a new animal story under the cantion
"Black Bruin, the Biography of a Bear."
Mr. Hawkes is a most unusual blind man,
one who is thoroughly interested in ail that
goes on about him. He is an enthusiastic
attendant of baseball and football games,
an experienced fisherman and boatman, and
a trained naturalist atield. where no bird
or squirrel escapes his keen intuitive per
ception, which "sees" without eyes. Indeed,
as his clever stories Indicate, he probably
obaerveB the process- of nature about him
far more keenly than do most persons with
perfect eyesight.
Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury, of Yale
University, who said in a recent interview
that the much disputed Idiom "none are"
Is perfectly right, is a hearty defender of
what is sometimes called "newspaper Eng
lish." In his book, "The Standard of
Usage In English," he maintains that the
style of reputable journals is Quite as good
as the proper conditions allow, if not a
little better. Indeed, Professor Lounsbury,
whose practical standard Is the usage of
great writers and cultivated speakers, seems
inclined to permit more latitude of idiom
than some editors. One characteristic pro
nouncement of this critic which many peo
ple are quoting is: "Language not only
does change, but should change."
That William Dean Howells should have
vital sympathy with the art or doctrine
of Tolstoi may seem surprising, yet the
genial American novelist professes to have
received the utmost benefit from the vig
orous Russian philosopher. "I agree with
him," once said Mr. Howells. "bu can't
live as he does and advises." In Mr. How
ell's "Altrurlan" novels such, as "A Trav
eler From Altmrla" and "Through the Eye
of the Needle" there Is a hint, perhaps, of
Tolstoism modified by shrewd common
sense, and much Americanized in spirit. It
will be remembered, also, that "Sebasto
pol" in one of Its American printings con
tains an appreciation of Tolstoi by Mr.
Howells which illumines both writers in an
uncommon light.
The' author of "The Technique of the
Novel," Charles F. Home, Ph.D., has the dis
tinction of having received his entire edu
cation In New York City, from the firs of
the primary grades, through the College of
the City of New York, where he is now In
structor in English, up to the New York
University, which bestowed his doctor's de
gree. This is especially noteworthy because
the connections of Professor Home's ancestry
might well have drawn him toward Eng
land his forefathers having been among the
Puritan settlers of Massachusetts Bay. and
his grandfather one of the first Abolitionists
in New England, stoned out of Dover, N. H.,
for that cause. Professor Home has been a
traveler, miner, and even served his experi
ence with the stage before devoting himself
to literary criticism.
The Japanese Ambassador, representing
his Emperor, has conferred upon Dr. Will
iam Elliott Griffin, of Cornell University, the
Order of the Rising Sun. Dr. Griff Is Is the
author of "The Mikado's Empire" and other
authoritative works on the Japanese people
and on Japan, where he lived for several
years. He is also an authority on the
Dutch nation, and only recently completed
an account of the Inauguration and reiKn
of Wllhelmlna. which has been Included in
the revision, under his editorship, of the
Harpers' "Motley's Dutch Nation." The
emblem of the Sun is a large ruby set in
gold and enamel, and it is accompanied by
an official diplomat. Dr. GrlfTis notification
of the intended honor was made through
one of the former peace representatives at
the Portsmouth conference. Baron Komura.
If you have never been behind the scenes
of a theater or in the "make-up" tent of
a circus you will learn much that is in
teresting by reading "The Stage Door,"
Charles Belmont Davis latest book. in
these stories the comedies and tragedies of
theatrical life are admirably portrayed.
They are purely fiction, yet the characters
stand out so vividly that one gains a more
Intimate acquaintance with the life of the
green room than could be acquired by
months of actual experience. The position
of impressarto of the New York Metropoli
tan Opera Company has proved too much
for the constitution of three men, and the
work of managing theatrical and managing
stars has never been regarded as easy.
But Mr. Davis survived several seasons as
the manager of Weber & Fields' All-Star
Burlesque Company and has lived to tell the
tale. Or at least he tells much that he
knows of theatrical life In "The Stage
Door," and mighty good reading he makes
of it.
Vera the Medium," by Richard Harding
Davis, his first novel in six years Is an
unusual story, and Vera is the most charm
ing and fascinatinr of heroines, and one
Books Added to Library
THE following books at the Publio
Library will gro Into circulation on
June 23:
. BIOGRAPHY.
Hawthorne The life and genius of Na
thaniel Hawthorne; by F. P. Stearns. 1906.
Huxley Thomaa H. Huxley; by J. R. A.
Davis. 1007.
BOOKS IN' FOREIGN UA.VGUAGBS.
Bkl Da amerikanlKh volk.
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVBI
Grimhar FIJI and It, poimibilltiea. lflOT.
Street The ghosts of Piccadilly. 1807.
FICTION.
Cody Jacquette, a sorority girl.
Stephens & Westley Clementine's highway,
man.
Tnljtol Tales: tr. by R. N. Bain.
White lock When kings go forth to battlt.
FINE ARTS.
Henshall Favorite fish and fishing. 1808.
Pratt The history of music; a handbook
and Kulde for students. 1907.
Raven The bell of England. 1B06.
Vago Instructions in the art of modeling
In clay. 1880.
Wright The romance of the world'
fisheries. lut'8.
HI6TORY.
Brady. comp. Northwestern fights and
fighters. 1907.
Crawford Among old New England Inns.
190T.
Paris Ancient Italy; historical and geo
graphical Investigations. 19ua.
LITERATURE.
Brewster, comp. Specimen of modern
English literary criticism. 1907.
De Vere Selections from poems; ed. by G.
E. Woodberry. 189.
Putnam, ed. Representative essays;
r
entirely new to fiction. To get material
for his story Mr. Davis visited all the
seances and spiritualists he could find or
hear of in New York and Brooklyn, N. Y.
Durinp one of these seances the medium
decided to make it uncomfortable for Mr.
Davis, suspecting: that he was there "to
show the place up" in the newspapers, and
much to the delight of the "true believers"
present proceeded to deliver messages from
the other world little likely to arouse him
to enthusiasm either for the future or his
own personal appearance. Just as the spirit
was about to journey back. Mr. Davis was
permitted to ask one question. "Well."
said Mr. Davis, "I want to ask your ad
vice. Had I better take that position in
Mr. Jerome's office, or had I better go in
with General Bingham after all?" There
was a ga?p from both spirit and audience,
and a hurried exit on the part of the latter.
Choosfng titles for their books. Is hardly
a pastime for authors; It is a task, and a
difficult and disappointing one, although it
does sometime, afford amusement in pass
ing. When Miss Alice MacGowan chose a
title for her new novel she found It was
one that Miss Florence Wilkinson had al
ready used "The Strength of the Hills."
Therefore Miss MacGowan rechristened her
story, called it "Judith of the Cumber
lands," and felt safely original again. Evi
dently she forgot "Judith of the Plains."
a novel which Mips Marie Manning brought
out a year or two ago. Attached to a
name so comlnon as Judith, this difference
of only one word might well be expected
to pull confusion, down upon the' heads of
bookmen.
Hamlin Garland, author of "The Tyranny
of the Dark" and "The Shadow World." has
agreed to lecture this coming aason on
the so-called occult phenomena of the spirit
world, with which these books have to do.
Although a man of the mountains and the
plains, as storiea like "Money Magic" prove,
Mr. Garland has always felt an interest in
the mysteries of "spirit communication."
and some i5 years ago served on the execu
tive court of the American Psychical So
ciety, of which he was also at one time
president. "The Shadow World." appearing
as a current magazine serial, is a discus
sion in dialogue and narrative of some very
thri! ling occult happening, white "The
Tyranny of the Dark," a novel published a
few years ago. makes us cf similar mo
tives. Mr. Garland's friends are now specu
lating as to probable results of these inves
tigations. '
J. Ernest PhytMan, In his "Trees In Na
ture, Myth and Art," just published, makes
this comparison between tree life and hu
man life: "In what ways are trees like
us? They are born, grow to maturity, fail
and then die. They draw nourishment from
earth and air; and. by Ita aid are formed
the myriad cells of which they are built
up; the nutriment being- changed by a
process we can trace, but cannot under
stand, Into root, stem, bark, leaf or -other
part of their economy. They have no heart
to pump the fluid nourishment throughout
their frame from root to highest branch and
twig; but other forces effect the needed cir
culation of food.. They have a rough, thick
skin to protect their sensitive,, vital parts.
Earth and air, rain and sunshine are need
ful for their life; and they vary in charac
ter with varying habitat. They come near
to ui in that they differ In sex; and it Is
only by great restraint that we do not
speak of their love-making."
"The Debate of the Body and the Soul."
taken from an early 34th century manu
script, and modernized by the late Professor
Child, of Harvard. Is announced for publi
cation. Although the theme, the b'dy blam
ing the soul and the soul the body for Its
shortcomings. Is common to nearly every
language, still the poem itself is almost en
tirely unknown at the present time. Pro
fessor Child brought out a very small edi
tion as a gift for his friends several years
ago, and it is next to Impossible to set a
copy now. In the present reprint, for the
publication of which special permission was
granted by the Child heirs. Professor Georgo
Lyman Kittredge has written a most schol
arly essay and incidentally pays a glowing
tribute to his life-long friend and rfolleague.
Professor Child. The volume will be printed
on English hand-made paper. Miss Marion
L. Peabody, sister of Josephine Preston Pea
body, the poet, contributing the simple il
lustrations in keeping with the subject. The
edition will be limited to 780 copies, of
which 750 only will be offered for sale, all
plates being destroyed after printing.
Robert Hlchens new story, "A Spirit in
Prison,' continues its serial publication in
Harper's Weekly. That Mr. Hichens" vivid
imagination and arresting style are as po
tent as ever is evidenced by an absorbing
passage in which a strange Egyptian talks
to Hermione, the tragic central figure of
the story, of Destiny end the Desert two
themes which, in Mr. Hichens hands, are
familiarly compelling. Here Is a bit of
the dialogue:
"The sea teaches, but the desert teaches
more."
"What does it teach?"
"Madame must know If madame has ever
been to the desert."
"I don't think I should ever learn the
lesson of the desert," said Hermione. "Per
haps only those who belong to it can learn
from it."
"If it is so, it is sad for the others,"
said the Egyptian.
"They seek. I suppose." he continued.
'They rebel, th"y fight, they try to a void
things, they try to bring things about. They
lift up their hands to disperse the grains
of the sand atorm. They lift up their voices
to he heard by the wind from the south.
They stretch forth their hands to gather
the mirage into their bosom. They follow
the drum that is benten among the dunes.
They are afraid of life because they know
it has two kinds of rrlfts; and one they
snatch at, and one they would refuse.
And they are afreld still more of the door
tli at all must enter. Sultan and nomad
he who has washed himseir and made the
threefold pilgrimage, and he who U a
leper and Is eaten by flies. Fo it is."
The Flower Factory.
McClure's.
Lfsahetta, Marlsnlna. Ftametta. Teresina,
They are winding stems of roses, one by
one, one by one
Little children who have never learned to
play;
Teresina softly crying that her fingers ache
today.
Tiny Flcmetta nodding when the twilight
slips In, gray.
High above the clattering street, ambu
lance and fire gong beat.
They sit, curling crimson petals, one by
one, one by one.
jUsabetta, Marianlna, Flametta, Teresina,
They have never seen a rose bush nor a
' dew drop in the sun.
They will dream of the vendetta, Teresina,
Flametta,
Of a Black Hand and a Face behind a
grating;
They will dream of cotton petals, endless,
crimson, suffocating.
Never of a wild rose thicket nor the sing
ing of a cricket.
Btrt the ambulance will bellow through the
wanness of their dreams.
And their tired lids will flutter with the
street's hysteric screams.
Lfsahetta, Marianlna, Flametta, Teresina,
They are winding stems of roses, one by
one, one by one.
Let them have a long, long playtime. Lord
of Toll, when toil is done!
j Kill their baby hands with roses, Joyous
roses of the sun
lected from the eeries of "ProsA masterpieces
from the modern essaylBta." 1903.
PHILOSOPHT.
Brooks, comp. Helps to Happiness. 100T.
SCIENCE.
Wright Field, laboratory and library
manual in physical geography. ,1906.
SOCIOLOGY.
Currency problem and the present financial
situation; a series of sddresses delivered at
Columbia University. 1008.
L.loyd A sovereign people; a study of
Swiss Democracy; ed. by J.. A. Hobson. 3907.
USEFUL ARTS.
Butterfleld Chapters In rural progress.
19"8.
Partsch Message to mothers. 1908.
BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DEPART
MENT. American society of mechanical engineers.
Transcriptions, v. 2b. 1107.
Dowson & Jjrter Producer gas. 190.
Parke The effeot of brake-beam banging
Upon brake efficiency. 1907.
Twopenny English metal work; S3 draw
ings. 1906.
United State Continental Congress. Jour
nals, v. 11-12.
United States Fthnology. Bureau of. An
tiquitifs of the upper Gila and Salt River
valleys In Arizona and New Mexico; by
Walter Hough. 190T.
BOOKS ADDED TO JUVENILE DEPART
MENT. Brooke Story of a football season.
Rutterworth Treasure ship. r
Dean's rag books Dollle's A, B. C.
Dean's rag books Goosey Oander.
Dean's rag hooks Red Riding Hood.
Dean's rag books What Is.ltV
Dickens Children's stories; reto.d hy Edrle
Vredenburg. i
i Ferrault and othersTales of passed -times.
Joyce's Various June Letters
By LOUISE
JUNE 1, 190S. Dearest Aunt Mar
garet Mamma Bays I'm to write
you a letter every few days until
you are strong again. She says when
one Is convalescing time Is apt to
pass slowly, and any sort of a letter Is
very welcome. Mamma says she will
have more tim to write letters herself
soon, as she Intends to drop a certain
part of her newspaper work and give
all of her attention to another line
called "featuring." I think she said.
Then we shall have her at home a
great deal of the time, and she may
wear that flowered silk kimono you
sent as much as she caooses. As it is
now, she often eats breakfast in her
street hat.
The annual Hose Festival opens to
day and I am going to send you a
souvenir programme and a handful' of
rose petals from a bush that grows
near our dining-room window. Close
your eyes, auntie, and smell of them,
and dream that you are in Portland,
the Rose City, the most beautiful city
in the world, and one that has become
most dear to us m11. I am sorry that you
keep asking how soon we shall come
back thore to live, because Portland
Is home to all of us now. even to
Ruth- Ann, and she holds out longer
than anybody else. And we have made
so many friends here. Oh. I am quite
sure, auntie, that If we ever go East
again, it will only be for a visit to you
all after our ship comes in.
Lovingly, Joyce.
June 4, 19 i8. Dear Aunt: I am hav
ing the very nicest gown made. I'm to
graduate 'from the grammar school In
two weeks and next term will enter
High School, then I shall feel grown
up, Indeed. Already I am planning
how I shall act toward all of the new
girls and what I shall do at first to
make them like me. I believe I'll try
to think up soine really original way
to wear my hair bows or something
that will rouse their Interest in me
right from the start.
I sometimes envy Julie, who is only 13,
and Billy, who's but 6. Billy will start
to school next term. ai when you saw
him last he was only a baby. He .still
has some of his dear little baby ways,
but he will lose them all too soon, I
fear, when he starts to school, if he is
at all like the little bey who lives across
the hall from us. His mamma says she
sent him the first 'morning with his hair
cut Buster Brown, and with a Buster
Brown suit and the dearest little socks
on. But after the , first day he refused
to go any more unless he might have his
blouses belted in at the waist and have
his hair shortened and his stockings
lengthened. Now he wears a dirty old
ball catcher's mit attached to his belt,
and his mamma says she stands at the
window and watches him go to school
every morning and Just sighs and sighs
for. her baby that will never come back
to her. It's Just perfectly heart-breaking
to hear her talk, but Ruth Ann says,
"Pshaw, I should think she'd be mighty
glad to see him gettin' some sense. All
the larnin' don't come out o' books,
neither!" Lovingly, JOYCE.
June 7, 190S Dear Aunt Margaret:
The Rose Festival was dandy! We
went to four parades, to the rose ex
hibit, a concert, a matinee and a picnic.
Ruth Ann said she never saw such a
"maddening crowd." Mamma insisted
that she go about with us, and it was
funny to hear her scold and sputter,
though JiTlie and I really think Bhe
enjoyed it almost as much as we did
except the confetti. That seemed to
make her perfectly furious. She even
grabbed one poor boy by the arm and
crammed yards and yards of the pretty
paper ribbon he -had dangled all about
her into his mouth!
Now, I have some beautiful news.
We are to move Into a pretty bungalow
upon Portland Heights an ideal Sum
mer home. The owner, a friend of ours
the "gentle gray lady" of whom I
often write Is to be married this
month, and afterward will be traveling
all Summer. Her aunt, who lives with
her now, jtv-ill return to Denver, and for
three or four long months we will be
,tip there, above the bisr, hustling city,
among the cool, green fir trees, breath
ing the most delightful elr. and feast
ing our eyes upon the beauty of snow
capped mountains and forest-clad hills.
And last, but not least, we shall sleep
out-of-doors on the verandas. For
sleeping out-of-doors the year around
Is a great fad in Portland, especially
among the people who live up on the
Heights. Lovingly, JOYCE.
"Heart's Content." June 20, 190S.
Dear Aunt Margaret: Things do hap
pen, even when one Is only half-past 14
and lives In such a tiny corner of the
world. I dearly adore weddings, and
the one at "Heart's Content" was per
fectly splendid. I almost cried my eyes
out. I wore my graduating dress, and
had some beauttful new hair-ribbons.
Julie said I looked lovely.' And the
"gentle gray lady" looked lovely, too,
only I believe I should have said that
before I talked about myself. She is
now Mrs. Walsh, and we have been liv
ing In her home since the day of the
wedding. Mamma came up early that
day, for she wanted to help her, and we
children followed later, for she Insisted
on having us all, even Billy. Ruth Ann
made the salad and coffee and both the
Immense big cakes. Julie and I packed
some dear little white boxes with the
cake for the guests to carry home.
The rooms at "Heart's Content" were
literally banked with roses, all of them
from the rose garden of the "gentle
gray lady." When Julie and I first en
tered we thought we had been sudden
ly transported to Fairyland, and Julie's
pretty voice had the sweetest thrill
when she said softly: "Oh, Joyce,
.loyse; and it's to be ours all the happy
Summer!" And Billy shouted excited
ly: "Oh, It smells just like bureau
drawers! I do hope the 'gentle gray
lady' will be gone ever an' ever so
long on her wedding march!" Of
course, that made us laugh, but I pre
tended It was at the way Julie's hair
bows stuck out at the sides, for Billy
perfectly hates being teased.
When mamma. In her new gown,
stood up by aunt to help receive the
guests. Julie whispered and asked me
If I thought the "gentle gray lady"
would look half so beautiful as "Aunt
Klizabeth." That Is a pet name our
own. Julie has given mamma, and I
said I was pretty sure she wouldn't,
and sure enough she didn't; although
she looked like a dream. Mamma
looked like a picture from a stained
glass window. Lovingly, JOVCE.
"Heart's Content," June 15. 190S.
Oh, Dear Aunt Margaret: This let
ter will probably make you 111 again
it is so blue. I have tried for a week
to keep ray feelings all to myself,
hut now it seems I shall burst unless
I tell some one. I can't help It. I feel
terribly selfish, but I Just know I shall
die when we have to move into our lit
tle flat again. To have enough room!
Not to have to let down beds at night,
or be obliged to keep one's tea things
In a clothes closet oh, it's perfectly
delightful! But of course it can't last,
and I can't seem to enjoy myself while
It does last, for thinking about the
end of it all. I sat out on the veranda
with. Julie and mamma last evening
and listened to one of mamma's little
loving talks about being grateful for
our blessings, and I felt so selfish and
mean I Just had to go away and have
LEXINGTON
a good cry. All the rest are enjoying
themselves so much. School is out
and there is nothing much to do but
enjoy oneself. Of course, there are
music-lessons, but whenever I think of
the beautiful ride to town, with the
city lying below na, and the sweet
scented air blowing in at the open win
dows, I do not mind them a bit. And
after the lesson why, there is the
ride all over again!
Billy wears his little blue overalls
all day long; Julie flits about the gar
den with one of Ruth Ann's big sun
bonnets on, and Ruth Ann is very im
portant and dignified. She i bleaching
all the household linen, and storing
away the, Wiiuer things for the "gen
tle gray lady." And between times
she is making strawberry shortcake.
Mamma says the air up here Is like
wine, and her appetite is wonderful.
But poor little selfish me dt would
have been much better if I had never
come. Sorrowfully, JOYCE.
"Heart's Content," June 20, 1908.
Dearest Aunt Margaret: We are mo
happy! The most wonderful letter
came today, and you must share our
Joy. The "gentle gray lady" married
a wealthy man, and he wants to build
her a beautiful new home when they
return to Portland. She says she can
not bear to give up the little home)
that was once her mother's, or to allow
strangers to occupy it, and so she
wants us to Just live here as long as
ever we please. She says we may pay
her the same rent we paid for our lit
tle flat, and she hopes we will use
all of her things as if they were our
very own that will be a great "ac
commodation," mamma says. That is
one of the "gentle gray lady's" ways
of being gentle. The only condition
she makes Is that she shall be allowed
to visit us often and carry away aj
many roses as she can hold in her.
arms. She declares she cannot find
any half so fragrant or beautiful as
those that blossom at Heart's Content.
Mamma says you must visit us as soon
as ever you are able.
Tonight I went to my room and
promised God I would be a better girl,
and Jnlle and I have planned the love
liest party before Lois Clifton starts
for the Coast. Joyfully. JOYCE.
How the Steel Kings
Made Fortunes
INDUSTRY has furnished us with many
wonderful romances, but the origin,
and development of the steel trade of
America, as told by Herbert N. Casson
In his book, "The Romance of Steel,"
form, perhaps, the most remarkable in
dustrial narrative ever written. A thou
sand millionaires have been made by the
Iron and steel trade of America in the
last 40 years. There was enough money
made in steel last year to give 250 men
$1,000,000 apiece, while , enough iron and
steel have been produced In the states !n
13 months to secure no less than 37 to
every man, woman and child living in the
land of Uncle Sam.
And yet 60 years ago cheap steel was
unknown. It was then sold at a shil
ling a pound; the railroads were u.siug
Iron rails which wore out in less than
two years, and the total output of iron
and steel in a year was less than is now
made In four days.
Then came to William Kelly, a Titts
burg Irish-American, that flash of genius
which provided the world with a new
metal something as strong as steel and
as cheap as lon.
"Kelly was an Ironmaker and needed
charcoal. In time all the wood near his
furnaces was burned, and the nearest
available source of supply was seven
miles distant. To cart hia charcoal
seven miles meant bankruptcy, unless he
could Invent a way to save fuel. One
day he was sitting In front of the
'finery fire" when he suddenly sprang to
his feet with a shout, and rushed to the
furnace. At one edge he saw a white-hot
spot in the yellow mass of molten metal.
The iron at this spot was incandescent.
It was almost gaseous. Yet there was
no charcoal nothing but the steady blast
of air. Like a flash the Idea leaped into
his excited brain there was no need o,f
charcoal. Air alone for fuel."
Then, seven years later, came Besse
mer, who made the new process a com
mercial success by the invention of his
celebrated "converter." and received
:,000.0i. world-wide fame and a knight
hood as "liis reward. Kelly received
100,000 and comparative oblivion, al
though his Idea was the nucleus of the
Bessemer process, by which Iron Is puri
fied from carbon by the direct intro
duction of oxygen; for when Bessemer
applied for and obtained a United States
patent for his "pneumatic process."
Kelly claimed priority for his Invention,
and his claim was alios, ed by the patent
office.
Another pioneer of the jtecl trade,
Robert F. Mushct, a Scotchman, wh'i
hit upon a device for removing a diffi
culty that baffled Kelly and Bessemer,
fared even worse than Kelly. For he
lost his patent by falling to pay the nec
essary fee, and In his later years was
dependent upon a pension of 300. which
he received annually from Bessemer.
The difficulty which Mushct removed
was this:
"The air blast clears the molten metal
of carbon and of all impurities, includ
ing sulphur and phosphorus. But a cer
tain quantity of carbon is necessary to
harden the metal Into the required qual
ity of steel. Instead of endeavoring to
stop the process at exactly the'right mo
ment, Mushet asked, 'Why not firet bum
out all the carbon and then pour back
the exact quantity that you need?" This
was a simple device, but no one had
thought of it before."
The man who took the invention of
Kelly and Bessemer into his hands de
veloped it into one of the wonders of
the world, and made Carnog-ie millions,
was Captain William R. Jone? "Bill"
Jones, as he was known who seemed to
live with the sole desire of toppling over
the idea that England owned the steel
trade. He could have been a millionaire
many times over, but he cared little for
money. When he was offered a partner
ship, he replied:
"No, Mr. Carnegie, I don't know any
thing about business, and I don't want
to be bothered with it. I've got trouble
enough here In these works. I'll tell
you what you can do" these were his
exact words "you can give me a thun
dering big salary.
"After this. Captain." replied Carne
gie, "you shall have the salary of. the
President of the United States $25.0iyv
The most brilliant of all the Carnezle
partners was Charles M. Schwab. HIM
was the most meteoric career ever known
in the steel business. He had risen step
by step but such stepp! Step No. 1.
driving stakes for Jl a day at the Ertprir
Thompson works. Step No. 2. six
months later, superintendent of the Ed
gar Thomson works, the foremost steel
making plant In the world. Step No. 3.
at 35 years of age, superintendent of
both tne Edgar Thomson and Home
stead plants, managing 8000 workmen.
This was the only Instanco In which Mr.
Carnegie permitted one man to operate
two plants Step No. 4, president of the
Carnegie Steel Company, with a White
House salary and t pr cent stock.