Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-24
BOOK Notices.

DAME FORTUNE SMILED; THE DOC
TORS STORY. BY Wills Barnes. Bos-
ton: Arena Publishing Company. Paper,
II mo. Pages, So. % cents.
The title Of this book prepares US In
the Doctors recital Of his Professions
experiences for an exceptionally success
ful career, and the expectation is abund-
antly realized. a young German physi-
clan is called upon 10 minister profess
siOnaily to an American millionairess
travelling in Europe, and his attention
~ 50 successful and satisfactory as 10
secure employment as her medical at
tendant upon her return trip 10 New
York. He settles in New York, and Is
phenomenaly successful through her in
PRODUCTION in winning the confidence and
patronage Of many wealthy and inhuen-
tial patients, from who he receives large
fees, so that his professional emOlument
very soon enables him to rank as himself
a wealthy man. In addition 10 the in
come from his practice, through the good
viii Of his patients he finds opportunity
for money-making in stock transactions
travels as medical companion Of million
aires, and marries into one Of their FAINT
ies, securing a charming wife and "a
plethora Of money. and all this In a few
brief years
But the best Of the book Is not in the
personal history Of the Doctor The
readers interest In him is made subOr-
dlna,e 10 his interest in the patients
and in the results Of the Doctors pecu-
liar practices. No professional or techni-
cal Information is needed TO appreciate
the accuracy Of the diagnosis or the
Skin OF the treatment. They appeal for
recognition 10 cOmmon-a-use IDEAS OF
physical and mental hygiene. and chal-
lenge commentator. not less for the
success Of the cure OF physical ailments
than for the educational influences Of the
Doctors theory and practice upon the
hearts and. lives Of the patients. The
practical results Of these influences upon
the wealthy Class OF patrons. to whom b.,
ministers is manifested in muniacent
contributions to institutions of charity
and learning.
The book cannot but do good. The
great moral lesson which it teaches is
that physical health can be best attained
and preserved by subofdinating selfish
greed TO social benevolence. and that the
most efficient medical practice IS that
which succeeds IN relieving the mind from
the continued strain of the care and
worry Of money getting by the diversion
ana elevation Of thought to the higher
plane Of intelligent moneygiving.
STATE RAILROAD CONTROL. WITH
A HISTORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT
IN IOWA. BY Frank II. Dixon, Ph.D.,
Assistant in Political Economy, Univer-
sity Of Michigan. With an Introduction
by Henry c. Adams, Professor of Pc
litical Economy, University of Michigan.
With Map and Appendices. l2mo, $40
library Of Po.tics and Economies,
Volume -
This is very instructive and interest
Ing volume. full of the most valuable in
formation bearing upon the great sub
ject OF governmental supervision or State
control Of railroads. The State of Iowa
is great inland State-remote from the
seaboard-with a population mainly en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits. She has
within her limit $500 miles OF railroad
track, with no spot in her territory more
than fourteen miles distant from a raj
road. The carriage Of her own products
TO market is an immense business, ana
the roads intersecting the State from
east 10 west are all practically sections
OF great transcontinental system. The
capital which built these roads and ad-
ministers them is almost all eastern OF
European capital. These facts have not
unnaturally made the measure OF state
control over these great highways and
rival corporate owners the question OF
paramount State interest. Iowa was the
centre Of the Granger movement, and
though the device OF State control
through the agency OF Railroad Com
missioners was Of Massachusetts, origin,
Iowa very promptly adopted It., and has
exercised great legislative ingenuity in
endeavoring from time TO time 10 enlarge
the powers of the commissioners. and 10
Increase the efficiency Of their control.
The author OF this book has, with care
and labor, collated all this legislation.
and the action OF the Iowa commissioners
upon the questions arising under their
administration. He discusses the subject
in a very oair and philosophic spirit
very different in tone and temper from
the partisanshlp which characterized
somewhat similar book by Governor Lar
rabee who was borne into the Executive
chair OF the State on the wave OF the
Granger movement
THE PRESIDENTIAL FAvORITEs
BY Benjamin f.. Babcock. Washington
d. c.: The Campaign Publishing Com
pany. l92 pages. Cloth, ~ cents; paper
Is cents.
This Is q most timely publication. 1t is
a political handbook. containing the por-
traits of thirty American pubic men, to-
gether with biographical sketches OF
them, and an 5Ditome Of proceedings OF
every national political convention ever
held In the United States. 1t also gives
a NH EA Ulcers, chronic brsax-