The times., 1899-03-19
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
irrigation and Drainage" is the title
OF an illustrated work by F. H. King.
Professor OF Agricultural Physics in the
University of Wisconsin, which will be
of some interest to agriculturists. There is
no practical book, accessible to American
readers, ON the principles of irrigation. The
practice of irrigation is usually associated
with arid regions only. but it needs to
be first considered with reference to its
effects on the plant and the soil and the
climate. The book is not treated by an
advocate, but by student-one who is
more interested in discussions of princi-
pies and reasons than OF particular sys-
TENS. However, having once considered
the fundamentals, the author then proceeds
to the details OF practice. Irrigation for
the East is discussed as well as that for
the West. Prof. King has travelled in the
Old World and in our own arid regions to
study these questions. Drainage is taken
up in the same spirit; and the book will
be a compact handbook of these subjects
The illustrations will be very carefully
drawn under the personal supervision of
L. ii. Bailey, Professor of Horticulture in
Cornell University. who is the editor of
The Rural Science Series" to which this
volume belongs.
"An Introduction to the Poetical and
Prose Works of John Milton by Hiram
Corson, LII. D., Professor of English Lit
erature in Cornell University, will soon
appear. Prof. Corson has made a careful
and readable critical survey of Milton's
work with the view OF bringing the stu
dent into the most direct relationship with
the personality of the poet.
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Sir II. H. Johnston, will soon have off the
press a History of the Colonization of
Africa by Alien Races" With this an
nouncement We may couple that of a new
tsixth) edition of Sir Alfred Miners
England in Egypt"
Seumas McManus, author of Through
the Turf Smoke is a young man, scarce
ly thirty and has spent most of his life
in the village of Mount Charles County
Donegal, where he was born. For some
years he occupied the position of village
schoolmaster. He is now in this country
on visit, and it is rumored that another
volume of his work will be published by
the Harpers later in the year.
The third edition OF the "Historical
Geography of the Clans OF Scotland" by
I. b. Johnston, F. r. G. s., and Col
has been edited by Mr. W. X. Dick
son, who has added much important
matter. There is . large map of Scotland.
duly annotated in such a manner that the
location of each clan and area of its DOM
ination may be easily ascertained There
are also maps showing important cam
paigns and battles, and there are some ad-
mirably reproduced portraits Of Montrose.
Dundee, and Prince Charlie. The text not
nf tt,o
land campaigns, but includes rolls of the
clans. their badges and their war cries
General Wade's report on the state of The
Highlands, drawn up in 1924, is reproduc-
ed. as Is also the curious '.merorial anent
the true state of the Highlands as to their
chieftenries, following, and dependencies
before the rising of As, attributed to Dun
can Forbes, OF Culloden. The work is
awkward in shape yet it is one
from which the patient investigator of
Scottish history will receive much help.
The frontispiece map, showing the clans,
is alone Of high value.
Rural Wealth and Welfare" by George
T. Farchild. Vice President of Berea Col
lege. is the title Of new volume in the
Rural Science Series, which is issued un-
der the general editorship of Prof. L.
H. Bailey. of Cornell University. There is
which is prepared particularly for the
farmer. This work is to discuss the
fundamental principles of wealth, produc-
tion. capital, labor. transportation. social
conditions, and the like, but draws its
facts largely from rural subjects and is
meant to apply with especial force to coun-
try conditions and problems. Dr. Fair
child has been a lifelong teacher of these
subjects. and the book will speak with some
authority.
The Atlanta Constitution" seems to
have resented the fact that Watsons
STORY of France" received but little at
tention at the hands of New York review
ers, despite the favorable mention that it
obtained from Literature" The Con
stitution" sputters over the matter as fol-
lows:
Such treatment as the New York papers have
bestowed upon Mr.. Watson's book will not, in
our opinion, conduce to or encourage the friend
ly feeling which should exist between the South
and the North, nor persuade the people of the
South that they may expect justice from the
writers of the North. whether in relation to
their daily affairs their essays in the higher
arts and literature.
The real truth of the matter probably is
that New York papers deal rather with
books which concern the people of that
city than with those of a purely literary
or historical interest, such as might be
given space in Literature" In view Of
the fact that about twothirds of the short
story writer's and novelists who furnish
copy for the magazines are from the
South and write about the South, and the
immense sale of RED Rock Prisoners
of Hope" and some other Southern books.
the pettishness of the Constitution"
seems unnecessary. Does that paper ex-
pect Northern reviewers to wait with bated
breath for every work which comes from
the pen of a Southern author? How much
attention do books by Northern writer's
get from the Constitution" compared
with those dealing with the South and its
affairs? Such remarks as the foregoing do
not .'conduce to the friendly feeling" OF
the North for the South either.
Paul Leicester Ford has written story
OF the American Revolution. entitled
Janice Meredith" which will be pub