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,i»r
n R. GOLDWIN SMITH,
whose eminently respecta
ble and dignified criti
cisms always command
— — attention, has drawn
down upon himself the fire
of wrath from tome of.pis
readers who protest at his
recent wholesale condem
nation of the physically
unfit, a sort of latter-day
Darwinian philosophy.
"According to his plan, the
misshapen and malformed
Socrates would have been eliminated,”
says one, "and Nero, who started well,
would have been allowed to live.” The
defender of the incompetents, from a
physical or Darwinian standpoint, is
ready to quote enough examples in sup
port of his position to fill several pages,
but among the most important the follow
ing should be puzzling to Mr. Smith:
Bjrron was, according to his mother, "a
club-footed brat." Had this "lame boy”
been "eliminated" the world would never
*’ a ' e had "Childe Harold,” “Manfred”
and the exqufsite “Hebrew Melodies.”
-De Quincey and Coleridge were nerve-
rotten and turned to opii^ for tlmsoki-
Leopardi, next to Dante, Italy's
tion.
greatest poet, and her most brilliant es
sayist. was a bedridden invalid all his
life. Herbert Spencer was a sickly child,
totally "unfit,” physically. Pascal was
a paralytic. Alexander Pope was a
physical wreck from his birth. Poe was
a neurotic and at times insane. Kant
was sickly all his life. Mrs. Browning
was an invalid for the best part of her
life. Robert Louis Stevenson suffered all
his life from pulmonary and other trou
bles. These are but x few of the brilliant
"physical incompetents - ’—so designated
by society; Villon, the maker of France's
most exquisite ballads, was a house
breaker. thief and vagabond. Tolstoi
was, according to his own confession, a
.('blackleg and murderer.” Verlaine was
a drunkard an.l vagabond. Shelley, "the
cioud-begot,” abandoned Harriet West
brook, who committed suicide. Goethe,
Heine and Beethoven broke all the
"moral laws;" as did George Sand and
George Eliot.
Here are a few physically perfect
(“competent.” the disciples of Nietzsche
would say) beings that fate has unloaded
from time to time on an unsuspecting
public: Napoleon, Torquemada. Cath
erine, Queen Mary, Charles IX, duke of
Alva, Benedict Arnold, Judge Jeffreys,
Caligula, Claverhouse, Bondinus. Judas
Iscariot. Robespierre, the Borglas, and
others "too numerous to mention.” When
we get high enough X-ray magnifiers
we may, by examinging the brain lobes
of a Robespierre at birth, pronounce a
verdict on his future career and expunge
him in the kitchen sink. And so with
the congenial physical imperfects. When,
with the aid of these magnifiers and a
small dose of omniscience, we can tell
whether a born weakling will blossom
Into a Spencer or a mendicant, it will then
be time for the cceation of a board for
the disposing of incompetents.
That the same discussion about books
and authors is likely to be gone over year
after year for generations is evidenced
simply enough by comparisons. In a
recent number of a periodical devoted to
the interests of authors a contributor
gives advice to the budding genius of
authorship by urging the making of notes
at the very moment of inspiration—to
write the red-hot idea when it is sizzling
In the brain, even though the pencil may
not run as fast as the burning thought.
Transfer verse, story or essay to paper
as rapidly as possible, and then, after
wards, when the whole thing is forgotten,
think of revising it for its final form.
If one wishes to get advice of this kind
it would be difficult for him to go back
far enough to get it at first hand, but
even that will not be necessary, for al
most two thousand years ago Horace
wrote much along this line, and in a bet
ter manner than any of the latter-day
guides have been able to express them
selves. In the same sense the profes
sion of letters has been attacked and de
fended for ages. It is now nearly a quar
ter of a century' since Robert Louis Ste
venson expressed the modern defense
when he advised the young writer that
there were just two reasons for tile choice
of any way of life. "The first is inbred
taste in the chooser; the second some
high utility in the industry selected. Lit
erature. like any other art. is singularly
interesting to the artist, and in a degree
peculiar to itself among the arts; it is
useful to mankind. * I shall not say much
about the wages. A writer can five by
his writing; if not so luxuriously as by-
other trades, then less luxuriously. The
nature of the work he does all day- will
more alfect his happiness than the qual
ity of his dinner at night.”
In spite of. much tramping, however,
over the same ground as the ancients,
we ere not ready to confess that we have
w
not advanced somehow in the field of
letters.
♦
Dr. Conan Doyle is meeting with some
difficulty in connection with the publish
ing of his defense of the English in their
conduct of the Boer war. Publishers for
his last work on the subject have been
found for both England and the United
States, but, although the author offers
to bear all the expenses of publication in
Germany, he can find no one with the
courage to take the matter up. At
the present time there is little love for
the English within the domain of the
kaiser, but it Is certainly to the credit
of the American public that in spite of
the fact that a majority are Boer sym
pathizers, there, is a fair-minded - spirit
manifested in this country. We are quite
willing to hear both sides of a question
and then decide as we choose.
Mark Twain recently published serially
a peculiar detective story which will be
brought out in book form shortly. His
friends and admirers are trying to decide
whether to take the tale seriously or
merely as a -humorist's play with some
words and a strange idea. The story-
started out well, but unfortunately ended
UP with an imitation of Sherlock Holmes’
methods that was to be deplored, since
the author had previously in the tale
poked fun at the great detective. In one
paragraph the combination of Impossibili
ties was positively ludicrous—which was
doubtless the effect the author desired to
get. One character saw an aesophagus
floating in the air, and the author told
of trees blooming which never flower and
so on. Mr. Clemens frequently says he
is a much misunderstood man; the pub
lic insists on taking his most serious
statements with bursts of laughter and
fail to smile at his best humor. It may
be a lack of perception on the part of
the reader or it may be a lack of some
thing on the part of the writer.
♦
As a rule a man lives his life, and then.
If he thinks the world will regard it as
worth while, he wites his autobioga-
phy. Such a course is the logical one,
but here comes Booth Tarldngton, who
has written into a novel, which he has
called "The Gentleman of Indiana,” an
autobiogapy, the stoy of a pat of his
life which he has not yet gone through
with. The book was first published
about two years ago, and if the author
had in mind the sort of career which his
hero enjoyed, the public was given no
intimation of the fact. Only the other
day, however, Mr. Tarkington announced
himself as a candidate for the state, legis
lature. and as he had the suppqrt of the
party leaders, his nomination followed.
In the course of time Mr. Tarkington
hopes to be able to apply to himself, or
rather to have the speaker of the house
of representatives in Washington apply
to him, the term which made, the title
of his first book, “The Gentleman From
Indiana.”' ,
♦
There has been much discussion in Lon
don recently over a proposal to found a
British academy In England. Fifty au
thors and prominent men in other call
ings have, petitioned the king for a char
ter and the king has referred the matter
to the lor,fis of the councH. According to
the present plan the incorporators are
carrying out the suggestion of Mathew
Arnold in not attempting to cover the
whole province of literature. The new
atademy is described as the British
Academy for the Promotion of Historical.
Philosophical and Philological Studies.
Poetry, fiction and the belles lettres are
not included. It will be seen, therefore,
that the English incorporators do not
hope to establish an organization as com
prehensive as that of the French.
♦
One of the New York daily papers re
cently began a serial story in its columns
under the title of “Stratagems and
Spoils." The title, unfortunately, had al
ready been copyrighted by William Allen
White for his collection of political sto
ries. Accordingly the newspaper changes
its story's title to “Spoils and Intrigue.”
Then some one discovered that the al
leged author had merely copied one • of
Charles Reade’s novels, "Foul Play,” and
the serial was oroken off abruptly, it
seems that there are a number of persons
who make a practice of copying some old
half-forgotten stories and sending them
around to various publishers. Indeed,
some of the plagiarisms are quite recent.
One. of the minor magazines which is
said to be edited by. the office bov -is a
particular sufferer from these pirates.
Only last month this periodical reprinted
as a fiction story a special feature article
which had appeared in a number of Sun-
dav newspapers less than a year ago. In
a case of this kind there is not likely to be
much sympathy for the editor.
♦
It will be remembered that "The Eter
nal City,” Hall Caine’s latest novel, was
to have been published serially in Eng
land bv one. of the magazines. A few in
stallments of the story actually did ap
pear. and then the matter was suddenly
discontinued. Then followed a lawsuit
between the author and the publisher,
which promised to attract considerable
attention and furnish a quotable case in
future disputes of the kind. ^News comes
now. however, that the mr.uer has been
settled out of court, the publisher agree
ing to pay for as much of the story as
he used and to withdraw the imputations
he made againsU$> -
CORDING to the English
woman's Year Book over
two hundred' and fifty new
novels and new editions of
volumes were published by
women writers last year.
Some thirty .writers pub
lished more than one book.
The most prolific were
Mrs. Amelia Barr, Lucas
Cleeve, Miss Dorothea Ger
ard, Miss Everet Green,
Mrs. L. T. Meade, Miss
* Adeline Sergeant. Mrs.
Katherine Tynan Hinkson, Mias Florence
Warden. Mrs. C. N. Williamson and John
Strange Winter. The two most notable
novels of the year by women were "The
Serious Wooing,” by John Oliver Hobbes,
and "The History of Sir Richard Cal-
mady,” by Lucas Malet.
♦
From Evanston, Ills., comes an amusing
production entitled "The Book Booster,”
a sort of composite parody on The Book-
Buyer, The Bookman and The Critic, and
also on the light literature of the day.
Here is one of its literary items profess
ing to give the statistics of an alleged his
torical romance entitled “Fagots of Em
pire,” by "Miss Bertha Bosh:’’
The cloth used in binding the first edi
tion would, if stretched end to end, reach
from Chicago to Evanston. Placed side
by side the pages would reach from Chi
sago to Minneapolis. Smeared tninly. the
ink used would cover four townships. Ten
million cockroaches could subsist for six
months on the binder's paste employed.
Set up side by side, the individual letters
in the text would reach from San Fran
cisco to the Hawaiian islands. And the
hot air employed in boosting the book
would float 10,000 balloons.
♦
The date for the publication of Mrs.
Edith Wharton’s new novel, "The Valley
of Decision," has been definitely decided
upon, and Charles Scribner’s' Sons will
have the work ready from the press on
the 21st of the month. In the length of
her first sustained romance Mrs. Whar
ton has gone to the extreme, for .this
novel is in two volumes and numbers 680
pages.
As the collection of Napoleonana grows
larger and larger we are gradually get
ting nearer the truth about Napoleon.
This is partly due to the new find un
prejudiced methods of historical re
search, in which the value of the author
is to be judged by his editorial skill and
candor in arranging contemporaneous
data which speak for themselves, and
partly because of the development of the
public mind, which has made this method
acceptable. Still another jthase of Na
poleon's character as a statesman and po
litical economist is to be presented in a
forthcoming hook by'Thomas E. Watson,
aufnor of "The Story of France.” Napo
leon's scheme to have continental Europe
manufacture its own goods has a certain
bearing on the present economic crisis in
Russia, Germany and Austria. Mr. Wat
son makes several deductions from his
Napoleonic data, and one is that what
ever nation Napoleon subdued he better
ed, and wherever he had his hands
abuses fell. Accepting this as true, it is
Interesting to speculate on what would
be the fate of modern Russia had Na
poleon never been forced to retreat from
Moscow.
♦
“The Mastery of the Pacific.” by A. R.
Colquhoun. F. R. S.. will t>e published
"about February 15 by the , Macmillan
Company. This book contains an account
of political and material development In
the Far East, with an estimate of the
present status of Russia, Germany,
France, Great Britain and Japan. The
author .takes into consideration the coU
lapse of China and the, vast changes im
minent in that country owing to the ap
pearance there of America. His final
chapters bear on the future of the Pacific
and the relation of Great Britain, Amer
ica. Japan and Holland, at present chiefly
involved, and of Germany, deeply inter
ested! This work is also fully illustrated,
the photographs being reproduced in half
tone.
♦
Apropos of the several trftislations that
are being made of Booker T. Washing
ton’s autobiography, “Up from Slavery,”
it is interesting to note an extract of a
letter received by the author from Ibra
him Abdu Kahil, of the Syrian Protestant
college, Beirut, Syria. "* • • As I feel,
there is at present a revival of learning
among the Arabic-speaking people, and
for my countrymen’s benefit, I ask the
privilege of translating your autobiogra
phy into Arabic.
♦
Ernest Thompson-Seton’s popularity as
a writer is attested by last season’s sale
of his earlier book, “Wild Animals I
Have Known,” now in its fourth year.
This is said to have amounted to 14,222
copies, counting from September, and was
due to Its worth, not having been adver
tised. During the same period his new
book, “Lives of the Hunted.” enjoyed a
great popularity, having been printed
Edited by Lucian L. Knight
Amsterdam, 1649, both in male and female
lines. Among the ffiany distinguished
families descendent from the Roosevelts
included in the book are the Provoost,
Rutger. Barclay, Astor. Webb, White and
Schermerhorn. The work can be obtained
by subscriptions sent to the compiler.
♦
Reviews of Latest
Books
William Stearnes Davis is already well
known, as. an author of brilliant accom
plishments, having won the favor of the
public through the me-
“God Wills It” dium of his former vol-
By times dealing with the ro-
Wllllam mantle period of the ear-
Stearnes 1st Christian era. In the
Davis publication under review
the author goes back to
the time of the first crusade and the story
which he tells under the title of "God
Wills It” is full of stirring dramatic epi
sodes. Unusual power is displayed In
the handling of the scenery, and the in
terest grows from chapter to chapter.
One is impressed with the author’s con
trol over his material. Though set in
history and dealing with important his
torical personages, beginning with Hilde
brand. the pope who vowed the crusade
and gave it its battle cry, "God wills it,”
the story, not the history, is the thing.
This is a triumph, for many historical
novels bewilder with their surplusage of
historical incident. Incidents dominate
them and are relied upon altogether for
the effects. This is not true of Mr. Da
vis' novels. For over 175 pages, that is,
until his seventeenth chapter, his story
runs almost entirely apart from the cru
sade movement. The prologue sounds the
note, in a scene where Hildebrand, Pope
Gregory VII, puts the seed of the crusade
into the hearts of his followers, in one
last brilliant glow of his great spirit.
Richard Longsword, the hero, was at
that time a little boy. hidden in a window
embrasure. For seventeen chapters the
reader follows the boy. grown to youti.
through valorous exploits in love and the
tourney, until he is thoroughly Imbued
with the spirit and coloring of the age.
Living in Sicily, at a time when Italians.
Moors, Egyptians. Greeks, in fact, ail
races under the sun, flocked thither in
peace, Richard repels Saracen brigands,
saves the life of Mary Kurkuas, a young
Byzantine princess, whom he afterwards
marries, and of Musa, a knightly Spanish
Arab, who. though infidel, becomes his
lifelong friend. He fights valorously in
the lists at Palermo for Mary’s favor,
wins her, and at the same time makes
violent enemies who almost destroy
him in Syria. The romantic friendship,
even to death, and through the trial of
love for the same woman, of Richard
Longsword and the Spaniard, Musa, plays
a most attractive part'In the story. Rich
ard had no thought of joining the cru
saders when he left Sicily to go to France
to marry his promised bride and to help
his uncle in Auvergne destroy his ene
mies. But In France, under terrible
provocation, he comntns a double crime
that fills him with the bitterness of de
spair—a despair assuaged only by a vow
to repent at” the tomb of the Redeemer
in Jerusalem. Thus, naturally and con
sistently, Richard Longsword. Norman
knight of Sieiil’, came to France and to
Clermont, whither ail France, great and
small, was flocking. “The sense” of sin
hung heavy on each man’s soul, and
Richard was not the only despairing
baron who crjed after this fashion. ‘Mis
erable I am, who shall save me
from t£/5ry oulof this death?’ Sin there
wasy .lust, violence, but also a
sparrf-—.—Hie (wt'Jiot of this world.” The
voices of Urban II and Peter the Ilor.nlt
fanned t'Jit spark into a consuming fire,
which? swept/-o^r _-Europe to Idle, Holy
Land and burn^clie infidel out of Jeru
salem. Religious spirit, both Christian
and Moslem, animates the story. There
is praise to spare for Moslem valor, as
well as for Christian, and the highest
praise that can be given to man, that of
undying fidelity 'to a friend, belongs to
Musa, the Moslem. He fought, to be
sure, to hold Jerusalem, but when Mary,
Richard's bride, fell into the toils of the
Egyptian emir, Iftlkhar Eddauleh, Rich
ard's old enemy at Palermo, then com
mandant of Jerusalem, Musa rescued her
at the peril of his own life and kept her
inviolate for Richard, his friend. (The
Macmillan Company, New York.)
The already overcrowded market of
sword and dagger romances has been
added to by "God Save the King,” from
the pen of Ronald Mac-
“God Save Thfi Donald, author of "The
Kino” Sword of the King.” It
By will serve to pass a few
Ronald hours when one would be
MacDonald entertained, not educ#tcd.
The story opens during
the period of commonwealth, and deals
largely’ with the part played Bv a royalist
family in the affairs of young Charles be
fore and after his restoration to the
throne of England.
Tha romance is spun autobiographically
again immediately after the holidays, h " Vn ' n '<1 S » v. -
and being now, it is said, in its eightieth I Christopher Ashcroft son of
ana ue. k a royalist father and an unnaturally cruel
thousand.
♦
Quite in the van of books dealing with
the coming" coronation ceremonies of Ed
ward VII is an elaborately illustrated
volume by Charles Eyre Pascoe. called
"The Pageant and Ceremony of the Coro
nation of Their Majesties, King Edward
VII and Queen Alexandra in Westmin
ster Abbev.” The author is said to have
had unusual facilities for ^securing infor
mation as to what will actually take
place, while considerable knowledge has
been expended to make the accounts and
meanings of the coronation rites and
ceremonies, from the historian s point of
view, as complete and authoritative as
.possible. The fact that Edward VII in
tends to adhere to nearly all the ancient
forms which were practiced sixty-fopr
years ago, and that they may never be
repeated, may not strike a responsive
note in democratic sentiment, but fasci
nation and curiosity are Sure to be wide
ly aroused.
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"The Roosevelt Genealogy: 1619-1902,” is
being compiled by Charles B. Whittelsey,
of Hartford, Conn. This work contains
dates of births, marriages, and deaths of
the Roosevelt families, descendent from
Claas Martenzen van Roosevelt, of New
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and fanatical Puritan mother. The
daughter of his father’s half-brother be
comes the center of the love story, and
figures largely in the political intrigues.
This uncle, as the elder Ashcroft, is the
custodian of the ruby cross, which an
early monarch had given to the family in
return for a service. The theft of this
cross by Christopher’s mother, its cap
ture by the hero and its connection with
the conspiracy at the fanatics against
their king form a,plot of no little com
plexity and interest. The descriptions of
the despicable preacher crew which Lady
Lydia gathers about her are repulsive
enough to make us hope them overdrawn.
They and the terrible mother are com
pensated for, however, by several admira
ble characters, the gentle, book-loving j
father and the one-legged soldier-tutor j
teing well worth acquaintance.
The climax of the story is reached when
the hero and his uncle rescue Mary and
the king from the nest of fanatics whither
they have been enticed. Here in one room
men are mowed down like grain, and
blood floods the scene until we do not
wonder that poor Mary takes time from
loading the muskets to have a few little
swoons behind her barricade of dead
preachers. Esierything ends properly,
however. aU the villains being disposed
of, the rubj’ cross returning to its owner,
and Chris s.r.d Mary settling their affairs
quit#- in the usual way. The book is
neither better nor worse than those of
its class that have already iived their
short day. (The Century Company, New
York.)
_ ♦
“The Alien” belongs to. the school of
Bronte. Rochester and Jane Eyre, a lit
tle toned down by time and convention.
appear in the characters .
“The of Jaspar and Esther '■
Alien” Mordaunt. Esther, who \
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pendent on the whim of j
a rich, crabbed aunt, and Jaspar, having, i
like Rochester, lived in many climes and
achieved a deal of wickedness, cpmes j
home to play havoc in her monotonous [
life The interest of the story, however, j
does not cenfer in these two, but in the :
crabbed old aunt, whose prototype wj do
not remember to have met in fiction. She j
is very much alive, as are all the charac- j
tern of the book, and quite capable, with
her vagaries past and present, of helping
one to while away an afternoon or an
evening by the fire. tD. Appleton & Co.,
New York.)
♦
Voltime VI of "The World's Best Es-
says,” edited by Associate Justice David
J. Brewer, opens with two chapters from
Henry Haliam's “Intro
duction to the Literature
“World’s Best of Europe in the Fif-
Essays” teenth. Sixteenth and
volume VI Seventeenth Centuries.”
a work which, until
Taine's “History of Eng
lish Literature” appeared, held the first
place among books of its class. This
work, which is still regarded as the au
thor s masterpiece, is in reality a series
of essays, each with an individuality of
its own, which in many cases is so well
defined as to render it fully as capable of
standing alone as any detached essay of
De Quincey or Macaulay. -Professor Ed
ward Robinson says of Hallam that “in
science and theology, mathematics and
poetry, metaphysics and law, he is a
competent and always a fair, if not pro
found, critic,” and adds that "the great
qualities displayed in his work, conscien
tiousness. accuracy and enormous read
ing, have been universally acknowl
edged." The two chapters selected for
this volume have for their subjects “The
First Books Printed i» England” and
“Poets Who Made Shakespeare Possible.”
Another essay well worthy of note is
that of Frederic Harrison on "The Choice
of Books." This essay first appeared in
1886, and aroused much animated discus
sion on account of its» caustic criticism of
the literary—or better, perhaps, unilter-
ary—tastes of modern readers, who, he
declares., act as if every book were as
good as any other, and it were a mere
question of order as to which should be
taken up first. “A generation.” he af
firms. “which will listen to ’Pinafore'
three hundred nignts and read M. Zola's
seventeenth romance can no more read
Homer than it could read a cuneiform in
scription.” Mr. Harrison thinks the habit
of reading wisely one of the most diffi
cult habits to form, and he strongTy
deprecates the practice or reading for
mere reading's sake as debilitating to the
mind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Hazlitt,
Hegel. Heine, Humboldt and Leigh Hunt
are all drawn upon for characteristic ar
ticles, and Thomas Henry Huxley is rep
resented by his brilliant essay on "Retro
spective Prophecy as a Function of Sci
ence.” entitled “On the Method of Zadig."
Four scenes from “Bracebridge Hall”
and two from “The Sketch Book” com
prise some of the best work of Irving.
Time has not robbed Jefferson’s essay on
“Truth and Toleration Against Error” of
all its significance: and Douglass Jer-
rold’s “Barbarism in Birc^ige Wglk”
may still be recommended as profitable
reading to the rulers of nations.
These are hardly a fourth of the dis
tinguished names that scintillate in the
table of contents, bringing the sixth vol
ume fully up to the high standard estab
lished by its predecessors.
The portraits comprise those of Henry
Hallam. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Oliver W.
Holmes, David Hume and Dr. Samuel
Johnson. The illustrations include two
historical incidents. “Napoleon at Til
sit. 1807.” aVid . “Quatre Bras, 1815;”
"Washington Irving's Home at Sunny-
side,” "Homer Listening to the Sea”
and "When Nature Wakes,” an intro
duction to Charles Kingsley’s interest
ing essay, “A ChaTm of Birds."—(Ferd
P. Kaiser, St, Louis.)
♦
Of the making of books about Abraham
Lincoln there is literally no end. Nor
is this to be wondered at or deplored;
“Th« Assas- there is always room
stnatlon of for another good one. A
President book out of the ordinary
Lincoln” has Just been printed iiy
by Osborn H. Oldroyd, col-
Osbora H lector and curator of the.
Oldroyd government relics of
Lincoln at the house, 516 Tenth street,
Washington, D. C. Its title is “The As
sassination of Abraham Lincoln: Flight.
Pursuit, Capture and Punishment of the
Conspirators." The. narrative fills 300
pages, and there ere eighty-two illus
trations from photographs and drawings.
Mr. Oldroyd has gone exhaustively into
the subject. He has presented all the
evidence obtainable, and has examined
and corrected the various stories of the
tragedy. Mr. Oldroyd is fitted for this
work by many years of familiarity with
the subject. If any one is especially in
terested in this distressing moment in
the lifq of the nation here is a book de
cidedly worth reading.
-*E SUm^ SOUTR
SECRETS OF PERSONAL T'\
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Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Books on Person*
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prominent men in this country that there is no other one thing whica wilt
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says Hon. James. R. Kenney, “rod for this reason I accepted the chairtHM** /'
ship of the committee on distribution of works on Personal Magnetism arf4i,\ ’’
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"The real secrets of Personal Magnetism and Hypnotism have always been
jealously 'guarded by the few who knew them and kept them from the masses
of the people. One who understands these sciences has an inestimable advar
tage in the race of life. I want to put this information in the hands of eve.1
ambitious man and woman in this country.
“The American College of Sciences has just appropriated $10,000 to be used
in printing books for free 'distribution, and if this does not supply the de
mand it will appropriate $10,000 more. The books are absolutely free. They
do not cost you a single cent.
"Tell me what kind of work you a re engaged in; or, if sick the disease
from which you suffer, and I will send you the book which will put you on
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are, I will guarantee to help you tc achieve greater success. The work which
I will send you Is from the pens of the most eminent specialists of the coun
try; it is richly illustrated with the flneet'half-tone engravings, and is intensely
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whole current in the lives of hundra*), sif:. BOsons who were ready to give
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“If you have not meT with 11.-J business or social success which you de- j
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Speaking of Mr. Linn’s work the. Chi
cago Chronicle says:
In the hands of a more experienced
workman, the plot con-
“The Second ceived by James Weber
Generation” Linn for his Chicago
By romance, "The Second
James Weller Generation,” might eas-
Llnn iiy have been developed
into a novel of excep
tional strength. At times he seems to
rise to the occasion he has made for
.himself, and in a few instances he ap
pears to comprehend all of its possibili
ties, but it is only to drop into crudities
of -style and commonplaces pf expres
sion which mark him as an apprentice
in the art of story telling. To those
familiar with the ways of the cr&ft his.
attempt to picture the inner workings
of a newspaper office and the manners
and customs of trained newspaper men
is particularly distressing. Nevertheless,
the romance is above the average in the
line of what may be called Chicago fic
tion, and it will prove acceptable to
readers who desire, simply to be enter
tained.—(New York and London: The
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