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# The Detective Story

Extracted from Munsey's Magazine, vol 31, 1904 pp. 319–320.
THE DETECTIVE STORY.
A murder is committed, and that page is full of gore, Of smashed and broken furniture, and blood-stains on the floor.
A livid, ghastly corpse is quite essential to the tale,
And people standing round with trembling knees and faces pale.
Now introduce the town police, and ridicule their chief;
The way they miss the plainest clues is almost past belief.
Then, when they give the mystery up and start to leave the place,
Bring in the great detective with the shrewd and kindly face.
Now arm him with a camera, tape-measure, microscope;
At once he sees a thumb-print on a near-by cake of soap.
A speck of human cuticle is found upon the towel;
And now the great detective knows who did that murder foul!
Upon the floor he spies a pile of white tobacco ash— With microscope in hand he's on his knees there in a flash.
"Aha!" he says at length. "The villain smoked a Henry Clay!
This is no common scoundrel, and he isn't far away."
He works with ready camera and piles up evidence,
While all the local force stand by and feel like thirty cents. He pulls out secret drawers that no one ever dreamed were there,
And probes with needles fine and loupe the cushions of each chair.
With measure in his hand he crawls along the hard-wood floor,
And measures all the scratches from the chimney to the door.
At last he rises, smiling. "Well, his shoes are 15, size eight,
And by the length of stride he's five feet nine when standing straight.
"He wore a black and white checked suit; see, here I find a thread.
A soft slouch hat he had, crushed down upon his curly head.
How can I tell? Why, see this mark upon the dusty stand,
And on the chandelier I found this single curly strand.
"Now, then, we have a picture of the murderer complete.
His hat, his hair, his clothes, his height, and even size of feet.
Now just go to the window and look out—no need to hide— For there's the man we're hunting walking down the other side!"
ENVOY.
Oh, thanks to British Conan Doyle, to French Gaboriau,
And also many thanks to our own Edgar Allan Poe.
To them we owe a debt of gratitude that's hard to pay,
For teaching us to frustrate crime in such an easy way!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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# The Dial/Volume 15/Number 169/Briefer Mention

BRIEFER MENTION.
The second volume has just appeared of Green's "Short History of the English People " (Harper), in the magnificently illustrated edition that we owe to the painstaking scholarship and industry of Mrs. Green and Miss Norgate. This installment carries us through the Reformation period to the death of Elizabeth, two more volumes being necessary to complete the work. The illustrations are very numerous, a mere list of them, with brief descriptive notes, filling nearly thirty pages. It would be superfluous to praise the execution of this work, which is in all respects mechanically satisfactory. It should be found in every library, public or private.
"The Yearbook of Science" for 1892 (Dodd), edited by Professor T. G. Bonney, is the second issue of the series to which it belongs. The departments have been undertaken by the best specialist authorities, and the work offers a manual indispensable to every worker in physics or chemistry, in geology or biology. References are given with unusual precision, and results are so concisely summarized as to permit the inclusion of a vast amount of matter.
Mr. Francis H. Underwood's study of "The Poet and the Man" (Lee & Shepard) gives us both a brief biography of Lowell and a generous tribute to his personal qualities. The author knew Lowell quite intimately for nearly forty years, and, while his book gives us little or nothing that is absolutely new, it has the effect of bringing us very close to the lovable personality of its subject, and to make us realize afresh how worthy were the ideals for which Lowell stood, and how consistent was his devotion to their service. The volume, which is an expansion of an article written for "The Contemporary Review," is prettily printed.
Four pamphlet sermons that come to us from the Rev. James De Normandie, of Boston, are of timely interest. Two of them are memorials, respectively of A. P. Peabody and Bishop Brooks. The others are on "Sunday and the Columbian Fair" and "The Injustice to the Chinese," upon both of which subjects the author discourses with graceful and persuasive eloquence from the humane standpoint. We cordially commend these books to our readers. (Boston: Damrell & Upham.)
# The Dial/Volume 15

* Number 169 (July 1, 1893)
* Number 170 (July 16, 1893)
* Number 171 (August 1, 1893)
* Number 172 (August 16, 1893)
* Number 173 (September 1, 1893)
* Number 174 (September 16, 1893)
* Number 175 (October 1, 1893)
* Number 176 (October 16, 1893)
* Number 177 (November 1, 1893)
* Number 178 (November 16, 1893)
* Number 179 (December 1, 1893)
* Number 180 (December 16, 1893)
(Index of scanned pages)
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
VOLUME XV.
July 1 to December 16, 1893.
CHICAGO: THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. 1893.
INDEX TO VOL. XV.
POETRY.
COMMUNICATIONS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AUTHORS AND TITLES OF BOOKS REVIEWED.
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/The Doctor's Virtues

It will be admitted that this is a pretty bad state of things. And the melodramatic instinct of the public, always demanding; that every wrong shall have, not its remedy, but its villain to be hissed, will blame, not its own apathy, superstition, and ignorance, but the depravity of the doctors. Nothing could be more unjust or mischievous. Doctors, if no better than other men, are certainly no worse. I was reproached during the performances of The Doctor's Dilemma at the Court Theatre in 1907 because I made the artist a rascal, the journalist an illiterate incapable, and all the doctors "angels." But I did not go beyond the warrant of my own experience. It has been my luck to have doctors among my friends for nearly forty years past (all perfectly aware of my freedom from the usual credulity as to the miraculous powers and knowledge attributed to them); and though I know that there are medical blackguards as well as military, legal, and clerical blackguards (one soon finds that out when one is privileged to hear doctors talking shop among themselves), the fact that I was no more at a loss for private medical advice and attendance when I had not a penny in my pocket than I was later on when I could afford fees on the highest scale, has made it impossible for me to share that hostility to the doctor as a man which exists and is growing as an inevitable result of the present condition of medical practice. Not that the interest in disease and aberrations which turns some men and women to medicine and surgery is not sometimes as morbid as the interest in misery and vice which turns some others to philanthropy and "rescue work." But the true doctor is inspired by a hatred of ill-health, and a divine impatience of any waste of vital forces. Unless a man is led to medicine or surgery through a very exceptional technical aptitude, or because doctoring is a family tradition, or because he regards it unintelligently as a lucrative and gentlemanly profession, his motives in choosing the career of a healer are clearly generous. However actual practice may disillusion and corrupt him, his selection in the first instance is not a selection of a base character.
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/Suggested Laboratory Tests of the Vivisector's Emotions

Take the hackneyed case of the Italian who tortured mice, ostensibly to find out about the effects of pain rather less than the nearest dentist could have told him, and who boasted of the ecstatic sensations (he actually used the word love) with which he carried out his experiments. Or the gentleman who starved sixty dogs to death to establish the fact that a dog deprived of food gets progressively lighter and weaker, becoming remarkably emaciated, and finally dying: an undoubted truth, but ascertainable without laboratory experiments by a simple enquiry addressed to the nearest policeman, or, failing him, to any sane person in Europe. The Italian is diagnosed as a cruel voluptuary: the dog-starver is passed over as such a hopeless fool that it is impossible to take any interest in him. Why not test the diagnosis scientifically? Why not perform a careful series of experiments on persons under the influence of voluptuous ecstasy, so as to ascertain its physiological symptoms? Then perform a second series on persons engaged in mathematical work or machine designing, so as to ascertain the symptoms of cold scientific activity? Then note the symptoms of a vivisector performing a cruel experiment; and compare them with the voluptuary symptoms and the mathematical symptoms? Such experiments would be quite as interesting and important as any yet undertaken by the vivisectors. They might open a line of investigation which would finally make, for instance, the ascertainment of the guilt or innocence of an accused person a much exacter process than the very fallible methods of our criminal courts. But instead of proposing such an investigation, our vivisectors offer us all the pious protestations and all the huffy recriminations that any common unscientific mortal offers when he is accused of unworthy conduct.
# The Doctor’s Dilemma/The Flaw in the Argument

I may as well pause here to explain their error. The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing, though any fool can prove that ignorance is bliss, and that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" (a little being the most that any of us can attain), as easily as that the pains of life are more numerous and constant than its pleasures, and that therefore we should all be better dead. The logic is unimpeachable; but its only effect is to make us say that if these are the conclusions logic leads to, so much the worse for logic, after which curt dismissal of Folly, we continue living and learning by instinct: that is, as of right. We legislate on the assumption that no man may be killed on the strength of a demonstration that he would be happier in his grave, not even if he is dying slowly of cancer and begs the doctor to despatch him quickly and mercifully. To get killed lawfully he must violate somebody else's right to live by committing murder. But he is by no means free to live unconditionally. In society he can exercise his right to live only under very stiff conditions. In countries where there is compulsory military service he may even have to throw away his individual life to save the life of the community.
It is just so in the case of the right to knowledge. It is a right that is as yet very imperfectly recognized in practice. But in theory it is admitted that an adult person in pursuit of knowledge must not be refused it on the ground that he would be better or happier without it. Parents and priests may forbid knowledge to those who accept their authority; and social taboo may be made effective by acts of legal persecution under cover of repressing blasphemy, obscenity, and sedition; but no government now openly forbids its subjects to pursue knowledge on the ground that knowledge is in itself a bad thing, or that it is possible for any of us to have too much of it.
# The Earth Turns South/The Poem

THE POEM
# The Earth Turns South/The Silver Way

THE SILVER WAY
# The Earth Turns South/The Night Cometh

THE NIGHT COMETH
# The Earth Turns South/The Radiant

I. RESTLESS YEARS
THE RADIANT
# The Earth Turns South/The Window

THE WINDOW
# The Earth Turns South/The Red Song

THE RED SONG
# The Earth Turns South/The Wheel

THE WHEEL
# The Earth Turns South/The Smithy of God

THE SMITHY OF GOD
# The Earth Turns South/The Return

IV. A STAR COMES SINGING
THE RETURN
# The Earth Turns South/The Sky-Gypsy

THE SKY-GYPSY
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Burns, Hon. John Fitzgerald

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​Burns, Hon. John Fitzgerald, M.L.A. was born in the north of Ireland, and emigrated to New South Wales at an early age. Having engaged in mercantile pursuits in the Hunter River district, he was returned to the Assembly for the Hunter in 1862, and represented the constituency for many years. He is now one of the members for St. Leonard's. He was Postmaster-General in the Robertson Ministry from Feb. 1875 to March 1877, and in that of Mr. Farnell from Dec. 1877 to Dec. 1878. He introduced postal cards into Australia in 1875, and was the first to give employment to women in the telegraph department. In 1878 he arranged with the Governments of the other Australian colonies and New Zealand for the duplication of the submarine cable to Australia. Mr. Burns was Treasurer in the last Robertson Ministry from Dec. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and in that of Sir Henry Parkes from Jan. 1887 to Jan. 1889. He was gazetted a C.M.G. in the Jubilee year, but declined the honour, and the appointment was cancelled.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bull, John Wrattall

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​Bull, John Wrattall, son of the late Rev. John Bull, M.A., incumbent of St. John's, Walthamstow, England, was born at St. Paul's Cray, Kent, on June 23rd, 1804. He emigrated to South Australia in 1838, and engaged successfully in pastoral pursuits, but was ruined in the crisis caused by the dishonour of Governor Gawler's drafts. He went to the Victorian gold diggings in 1852, but returned to Adelaide the next year, when he became manager of Mr. Osmond Gilles' Glen Osmond property, where he established a vineyard, one of the first in the colony. In 1842 he invented a locomotive steam-threshing machine, and in 1882 was voted £250 by the South Australian Parliament for his improvements in agricultural machinery. He was the author of "Bull's Experiences of Colonial Life." He died on Sept. 21st, 1885.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bundey, Hon. William Henry

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​Bundey, Hon. William Henry, Puisne Judge, South Australia, son of the late James Bundey, was born in 1838, and admitted to the South Australian bar in 1865, becoming Q.C. in 1878. He sat in the House of Assembly as member for Onkaparinga from 1872 to 1874, and from 1878 to 1880. He was Minister of Justice and Education in Mr. (now Sir) Arthur Blyth's Government from July 1874 to March 1875, and Attorney-General in that of Mr. (afterwards Sir) W. Morgan from Sept. 1878 to March 1881. In 1882 he received the Queen's permission to bear the title of "Honourable" within the colony, and in 1884 was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. Judge Bundey was for six years captain of volunteers, and was commodore of the South Australian Yacht Club from 1874 to 1884. He married in 1865 Ellen Wardlaw, daughter of the Hon. Sir William Milne, late president of the Legislative Council of South Australia.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Bunny, Brice Frederick

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​Bunny, Brice Frederick, sometime Commissioner of Titles, Victoria, was the second son of Jere Brice of Newbury, Berkshire, and Clara, his wife, daughter of Samuel Slocock. He was born at Newbury in 1820, and was educated at Eton. He entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn in March 1839, and was called to the bar in May 1844. He emigrated to Victoria in 1852, with the object of making a fortune on the goldfields; but by the advice of his friend, Vice-Chancellor Bacon, took his tools with him in the shape of a law library. After some experience on the Forest Creek diggings, he was admitted to the Victorian bar in Oct. 1853, and commenced practice in Melbourne. He acquired a good equity business, and was appointed a County Court Judge in 1873. In October of the next year, however, he exchanged this post for that of Commissioner of Titles, which he held till his death on June 2nd, 1885.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Burgoyne, Thomas

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​Burgoyne, Thomas, M.P., represents Newcastle in the Legislative Assembly of South Australia, and was Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration in the Cockburn Government from June 1889 to August 1890, when he retired with his colleagues.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Burnett, Commodore William Farquharson

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​Burnett, Commodore William Farquharson, C.B., entered the Royal Navy in June 1838, and became Captain in Nov. 1854. In July 1855 he was created C.B., and in July 1862 was appointed Commodore on the Australian Station. On Feb. 7th, 1863. he perished in the wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus off Manukau, New Zealand, when out of a crew of 260 only 70 were saved.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Burgess, William Henry

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​Burgess, William Henry, J.P., was born at Hobart, Tas., in 1847, and was educated at the High School, Hobart, and at Horton College, Ross. He was member for West Hobart from Jan. 1881 to August 1891, and from August 1884 to March 1887 was Treasurer in the Douglas and Agnew Ministries. Mr. Burgess, who was the recognised leader of the opposition to the Fysh Ministry, is a captain unattached in the Tasmanian Defence Force, and was Mayor of Hobart in 1879 and 1880. He was one of the Tasmanian delegates to the Federation Convention held at Sydney in 1891. In August 1891, owing to the stoppage of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land, with the management of which he was identified, Mr. Burgess resigned his seat in the Executive Council and in Parliament and his position as leader of the Opposition.
# The Colorado

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United States Supreme Court
91 U.S. 692
The Colorado
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Mr. George B. Hibbard for the appellant.
Mr. J. G. Abbott and Mr. Ashley Pond for the appellee.
MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gerhart, Emanuel Vogel

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GERHART, Emanuel Vogel, American German Reformed clergyman: b. Freeburg, Snyder County, Pa., 13 June 1817; d. Lancaster, Pa., 6 May 1904. He entered the ministry in 1842, was president of Tiffin College, Ohio, 1851-55, and of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., 1855-66; and professor of theology at the theological seminary at Lancaster from 1868. He published ‘Philosophy and Logic’; ‘Institutes of the Christian Religion’ (1891).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/German Commercial Colleges

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GERMAN COMMERCIAL COLLEGES. See Commercial Education.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Geri and Freki

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GERI (gā'rē), and FREKI, frā'kē, the wolves attendant on Odin's throne in Valhalla. When he feasts with his heroes, having no need of food, he gives all the viands placed before him to his faithful attendants, Geri and Freki.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Geriatrics

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GERIATRICS. See Old Age and Its Diseases.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/German Art

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GERMAN ART. See Germany — Architecture; Painting; Sculpture.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gerhardus Magnus

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GERHARDUS MAGNUS. See Groot.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gericke, Wilhelm

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GERICKE, gā'rĭk-e, Wilhelm, German orchestra leader: b. Gratz, Austria, 1845. He entered the Vienna Conservatory in 1862 and in 1865 became kapellmeister of the Linz theatre. In 1874 he became record kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Opera under Hans Richter. In 1880 he succeeded Brahms as conductor of the Gesellschaftsconcerte and subquently became conductor also of the Singverein. In 1884-89 as leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra he made it one of the great orchestras of the world. From 1889 to 1895 he was back at his old post in Vienna but in 1898 returned to Boston and until 1906 was in charge of the orchestra there. He retired in the latter year. He has published a number of works for orchestra, also pianoforte works, and some chamber music.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/German Classical School of Political Economy

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GERMAN CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. See Economics.
# The Essence of Aesthetic

Published 1921, composed and translated 1912

### CONTENTS

* Preface by Douglas Ainslie
| I | “What is Art?” |
| II | Prejudices Relating to Art |
| III | The Place of Art in the Spirit and in Human Society |
| IV | Criticism and the History of Art |
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# The Elemoont/Chapter 7

tells how the Elemoont went by a trolley bus and did not know what a word "fare" signified.
I must tell you that in fairy-tales the trolley busses usually also overcrowded. And this time there were many animals in the trolley–bus. Giraffes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and other African living creatures sat on the seats and stood on their feet talking about diverse things. The Elemoont caught the handrail with his trunk, forced his way into the trolley–bus, and went into an unknown direction. Suddenly he heard the conductor’s voice, "All fares, please." "What does it means?" thought the Elemoont. "All fares, please," repeated the conductor and inquiringly looked at the Elemoont. "You see..."babbled the Elemoont, "I had fallen from the Moon not long ago and I don't know what the word 'fares' means…"
"In that case you'll have to get off at the next stop!" firmly said the conductor and turned to the Russian hare that sat on a side seat with a book under his arm. The hare showed him his ticket. "It's a strange thing," said the conductor, "The Russian hare has a ticket!" (All people around the world know that in Russia a person who has no ticket is named "a hare").
"You may consider I am not a real hare," smiled the hare.
At the next stop the Elemoont get off the trolley–bus and muttered, "Now the author will write again, ‘Our Elemoont was left alone’," and he felt melancholy. But the author cannot write so! This time the Elemoont found himself in a very lively place. There were boys and girls, men and women, birds and animals in here. The large flags were streaming in the wind and the large band was playing something bravura.
"The circus has arrived!" were pleased children. "Have you any unnecessary theatre tickets?" asked people. "Some sorts of tickets are necessary and here," thought the Elemoont, "I would like to know what this is?" But at this moment, a strange man with unimaginably long red moustaches came up to him. Not only were his moustaches red. The man was dressed all red. He wore red shoes, red trousers, a red jacket, a red shirt with red buttons, and a large red silk hat glared on his head. "It is a ticket," said the man with his red voice and trusts to the Elemoont some paper. The Elemoont became to look at the ticket with interest and the red man disappeared. However, the Elemoont had time to catch a retiring quite red thought, "Aha, it is caught!"
"About what does he think?" thought the Elemoont but immediately forgot of it because the door suddenly was opened and all the people rushed into the circus carrying the Elemoont along their way. At the last moment, it seemed to the Elemoont that in the very midst of the crowd the red top hat appeared for a moment and disappeared again.