TJ(E OREQOM SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. 1909
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some Kuod and amusing Illustration.
Henry Altemus Cn. Price 11.60.
I HE Voice of the City' by
O. Henry. This la a group of
?B. most charming and de
lightful sketches they might
he called short stories, but
that would seem rather a commonplace
for they are not short stories as wo
commonly designate that class of lit
erature. To say they were little black
and white etchings, with an occasional
pastel in words would more properly
describe them. Tluty are clear, dainty
nd full of llfej not passionate but
throbbing with tno great heart of hu
manity. The book takes its title from
the first story. In this the author seeks
to know what the voice of the great
city is saying. He says: "The other
day 1 became confused. I needed a ray
of light. I turned back to the school
days for aid. But in all tho nasal
harmonies we whined forth from thoBc
hard benches I cou'd not reomll one
that treated of the voice of agglom
erated mankind
"In other words, of the composite
vocal messaice of massed humanity, in
other words, of the Voice of a Big
City.
"Now the Individual voice is not lack
ing We can understand the voice of
the po'-t, the ripple of the brook, tho
meaning of the man who wants n un
til next Monday, the inscription of
the tombs of the Pharaohs, the lan
guage of the flowers, the 'step lively'
of the conductor, tho prelude of the
milk cans at 4 a. m. Certain large
eared ones even assert that they are
wise to the tympanum produced by
concussion of the air emanating from
Mr. H. James. Hut who can compre
hend the meaning of the voice of the
city?"
Then the author starts out to get an
answer to his question. Ho awks first.
"Aurella who wore white Swiss and a
hat with corn flowers on it and rib
bons and ends of things that fluttered
here and there." Aurella is Indifferent
but when pressed for an answer sends
the inquirer away assuring him that
"All cities say the same thing. When
they pat through saying It there Is an
echo from Philadelphia. So, they are
unanimous."
From one to the other, among many
classes of people he goes, receiving tho
name indifference, and each one he asks
Is more interested in what some one
else Is saying or doing than In what the
"Voice of the Big City" la saying, till
lit length he comes back to Aurella
and, at the close of tho day, sitting
with her hand clasped In his, she
answers his Question without knowing
it.
This Is ft fair sample of each of the
little sketches that follow all deli
cate of conception telling a little bit
of human life, warmed by a genial
sympathy and picked out with pin
points of brilliant wit that flash from
the most unexpected recesses.
Mr. Henry Is among the most clever
of our American writers, with a i!t
erary style that, while peculiarly his
own. is above criticism.
He never moral lues and yet he never
writes without a purpose, and after
reading nny one of the little sketches
In this book, which varies n merit only
according to the taste of the reader, I
ona feela as though he had taken an
elixir that was boPi stimulating and
wholesome. The McClure company.
Price J1.25.
"Oet-nioh-Qulck WalllngMford" --- by
Georsa Randoluh Chester. "A business
buccaneer," some one hag called J. Ku
fiis Wallinarsford. while another has
said. "He was an exponent, though per
haps exaggerated, of the entire Ameri
can spirit of commercial gain."
A financial hurvanrer he certainly
was. but It would be a sad commentary
on the American spirit of commercial
gain to liken It. as a whole, to Walllngs
ford. His type does exist, and has
ever since Jacob defrauded Esau out
of his blessing and later schemed to
make the cattle of I.aban striped or
speckled to suit his commercial Inter
ests. It Is not therefore any more the
American spirit than the oriental spirit;
It Is simply the spirit of human na
ture to ;et something for nothing. But
Wnllingsford's particular type was not
of the bargain counter class; ne soared
Into realms of high finance and guided
his craft with quick wit, resourceful
ness and .an unlimited amount of as
surance. His first transaction, wtiloh the book
relates. Is characteristic of his career.
as well as of the other incidents In the
story. He goes Into a town with less
than $200 In the world; he drives to
the best hotel In the best carriage to
he had. he takes the best room and or
ders a service that would do credit to
a millionaire. He meets a cnum wno,
In the course of conversation, tells him
of a bookkeeper who has saved out of
his meager salary $6,000, but who Is too
smart to let go of It to a snarper. wai
llngsford wants no pther cue, and a
rustv little tsck sticking: un In the
carpet suggested the plausibility of a
company to manufacture covered tacks;
tacks to match the carpet. By ripping
up a necktie and pasting bits of it onto
some tacks he sent his valet out to
buy. made a verv presentable bait with
which he caught the young bookkeeper
and all his confiding friends. In short,
in a few months, after living in an
elegant home he had bought and fur
nished luxiislously. having all sorts of
automobiles and every other magnlfl
nenrA without ever hflvinfir naid a eood
hard dollar for It. he drew out of the be made in rt.is country.
. j . .1. l. tnn tnn "Tl,. n-...i." 1
company ineiween iinve wim .-w,ifim.i
"The Tnnnr Acadian." hv Charles Q
D. Roberta -Even for children who are
not old ciioukIi to fully comprehend the
beauty and poetry of "Kvangellne'
theru Is an attractive air of romance I
surrounding tho Acadian peninsula, or
what Is now known iim Nova SooUa.
In the present story the author ante-
antes Lonirsnowi grent poem ty al
most a generstlon and in an attractive
way gives a hit of Acadian history that
would greatly Interest a child of not
too tender years.
Pierre, oecorheau was the youthful
hero of the story, though he had grown
to young manhood before It terminated.
He Is thoroughly Fi ench at heart and
does vnlhiiit servh-c tnr France, though
hating the famous Ahhc I,e I.outre.
One purpose of the book seems to he
to show that this unscrupulous priest
hnd much to do with the suffering and
expulsion of th.- Acndlans. His constant
Inciting of the Alicmac Indians to deeds
of cruelty, his despotic; rule of th
superstitious hut gentle Acadlans and
his corrupt connivance with the gov
ernment officials at Quebec undoubted
ly provoked tho drastic measure oy
England, which exalte the Indignation
of every render of "Kvangeline."
Mr. Roberts has told his story well
and has added n valuable little book to
Juvenile literature. It Is full of ex
citement with a dash of Indian adven
ture, though devoid of any unwhola
some or vicious tendency. It Is a storv
that would make excellent supplemen
tary reading for a school. It Is well
bound and good print and specially
adapted for this purpose. L. C. Page &
Co. Price 60 cents.
"The World's Work" On the 4th of
Jul- at Hainmondsport. N. Y., (1. H.
Curtlss sailed the air for a distance of
a mile In his aeroplane, the June Bug.
"The World's Work" for August con
tains four pictures of the June Bug,
showing Mr. Curtlss at the wheel, the
machine in actual flight, on the road
before the trlnl and during the trial
very remarkable pictures. This remark
able performance gets an especial In
terest from the fact that it was the
first public flight In art aeroplane to
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ina:
to the cood leaving the deluded hook-
keener and his friends with nothing but
their experience. I.Ike all promoters of
this kind he spent lavishly and went
from one bunko transaction to another,
each growing to greater proportions.
He proves himself the most accom
plished of all knaves, the rascal that
Uvea off of the credulity of the honest
and untight, but has the shrewdness
to always keep within the pale of the
law. Walllngsford Is a character an
honest reader must have the utmost
contempt for. a,nd yet they must ad
mire his brains nnd ability.
The book is brilliantly wittv and will
rovoke a laugh even when the reader
s so Indignant he feels he must get his
hands onto the man that is 60 smooth
ly fleecing his victims.
The Question will present ltseir: is
this class of literature good, whole
some reading? We cannot think It is.
To be sure. It ends with a sort of a
moral, but this does not overbalance
the pernicious ihflnnce It might exert
upon a voung man whose principles
are not safely grounded. His schemes
are so easy annarently- to carry out:
ho gets the best of everything the
world has to offer and many a time
could have retired a wealthy man. and
of course the young man who might
attempt to follow his example will In
tend to stop just at the proper time
who dors not when they begin to be led
Into temptation
So from the standpoint of entertain
ment the book deserves many good
things to be said about It. but from
the standpolrt of the moralist It is not
desirable.
The book s well gotten up and has
'The World's Work" also contains two
photographs showing Count Zeppelin's
dirigible balloon coursing over a lake
of the Herman-Swiss frontier. On a
trip of 1 2 hours that she made on July
1 this craft carried a crew of a dozen
men and as many passengers. This
magazine Is paying especial attention
to airships and will publish a series
of articles on the present burst of suc
cess a really new era It Is.
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"Home Memories," by EH Barber
This Is certainly a book to take one
bnck to the simple life, so simple In
deed that it Is a question whether It
would be wholly desirable to live so
near the primitive. It reads like ttie
Sunday school book of "ye olden
times." It was no doubt a great sat
isfaction for the author, who says he
wrote the book In "memory's name," to
go over the details of what must have
been a happy home life, but these mem
ories are like the smart sayings of our
own children very colorless to other
people. There are some Incidents of in
terest and a mild romance or two, but
hardly enough to lift the hook above
the mediocre. The author lays stress
on the Bible command "to remember."
but we don't believe oven the divine
command meant to waste time In re
membering things that would be of no
value In the progress of the world, and
the world has moved so rapidly since
Joe. the hero and author of the book
was a boy, that to go back to the days
of his happy recollection would stop
the wheels or progress in many ways.
Imagine a fond uncle of today of
fering a boy $1,000 If he would walk IS
miles to his uncle's home, remain with
him and without returning to his fam
ily for one year when he knew the bov
was devotedly fond of his home, and
then walk the IS miles hack again. To-i
day that uncle, most likely, would have
used the thousand dollars to send the
boy away to a good school.
Joe shows In many little ways that a
broader education would not have been
amiss. Here Is in Instance: Joe'a
grandparents had 14 children no twins
or doubling up. His grandmother was
at a quilting one time when measles
were prevalent In the neighborhood and
each woman was speaking of her ex
perience with toe disease, when the
grandmother remarked: "Well, all mv
children have had them but my five lit
tle girls." Referring to this the au
thor says: "What a Fpeeeh was that!
How many women of American birth
can say that today? I venture to as
sert that no woman's rights woman
past or present ever made such a speech.
They haven't the material And yet.
It Is Just the kind President Roosevelt
likes to hear. We ask. would the In
telligent mother flf today he willing to
raise a son who would cast such a slur
upon the women who made It possible
for grandmother's five little girls to
enter college and get ;in equlprrtent for
lire equal to her ninny nrotners. sup
pose that grandmother had been cast
upon her own resources, would she have
been ahle to support thoe five little
girls and give them the higher educa
tion, as we know one fumous "woman's
r ghts woman" to have done with five
sons who are now pillars of society and
hold prominent positions In the busi
ness and educational world and are to
day so devote-' to tint woman's rights
mother that they never fall to rals-
their voice lr their mother's cause upon
every occasion? We hardly think a
mother that woucl make so foolish a
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ainst the lhe or all Ills political
viser?. he tntrorii; . d a "w oman's
rights" bill Ir.to the legislature of New
York. The. author In this Instance cer-
nlnlv thade a dlsastro-is mistake whlcli
necessarlH weakens his whole story.
nicliard O. I'.adR. r To Trice ll.BO.
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Llfe of General T PeysW" by
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, ElltAbth Cadr Ftantco. arfJrr'iBg a crowd of. Nrw Yorkers en
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ii stu'e military" ent in Europe and
was trevetted ms.ior-general by a R pe
rl 1 act of the New Tork legislature
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the moat voluminous military critic In
America. The bibliography com piled
for his TJfs" contains hundreds of
title General de Peyster was a phil
anthropist, and gave away during his
later year aa eatlmated total of several
nlllloa dollars more than half hla f or
tuna A coasideralils pceUoa ot him XUal
ties of the civil war
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Maltese 8opTstlrtona.
From th London Standard. .
Tbcra are still to b found la Malta
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eolorwa like the eyas, tangnaa aad etbar
parts of asrpenta.
. Tb uparsUUoaa sawaf Ua Mtltaaa
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