The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-29

accom- panying Mr.. Morris's book contains q |
strong recommendation OF the work by the |
Rev Myron W. Reed OF Colorado who figures |
in several important scenes in the prophecy. |
and one OF whose sermons Is incorporated In |
full I'm It.. IL also contains hearty apprecia- |
ton by Mr.. Robert I. Warner. a letter by whom
forms part OF Mr.. Morris's text Tho story
itself shows how the United States Govern
ment was overturned last spring by the inge-
| nuity OF two Chicago reporters in the cause OF
| free silver and national income tax. and how
| New York city was destroyed and with 1t the
| accursed wealth OF Wall street: 1t presents us
| with a new Declaration OF Independence of
| fered by Coin Harvey and q revised Constitu-
| ton OF the United States reported by Ignatius
| Donnelly. The names OF all the delegates to
| the convention that perpctrates these instru-
| ments are printed in full. and give some in
! dication OF the authors political bias
Why when real names are used, regard
| less Of taste, throughout tho book he
| should shy at the names Of William J. Bryan
and f.. Benjamin Andrews. his revolutionary
| candidates for President and Vice. President.
and pretend to disguise them rs William ].
Lyon and T.. benjamin Carows. 1t 10 hard to
/ see. especially as Mr.. Bryan's name is used
| freely throughout the narrative. Mr.. Morris.
the pamphlet tells us. is an insurance agent Of
! Pueblo. Col. and descendant OF Robert Nor
ris: his financial sense may be gagged by the
| table OF taxed incomes he forecasts. whore
| 5000 a year and less pays nothing. while
| 100000 year of profits in any business PAYS
| 10 per cent. to the Government. The political
! and financial theories exposed In his book may.
| however. be neglected here; 1t is the literary
side that interests us. This Mr.. Morris has
modestly reduced to as small proportions
| as possible by a liberal use OF news
! paper clippings for which no gives credit
hnn n
nostlcation he has given little scope to
| his imagination. and even In prophesying.
! though no wrote in February, 1893. he
| abstains from limiting at tho coming war with
| Spain He leaves his artists imagination I'M
fettered, nevertheless: so we have picture OF a
| stag supper in New York at which many wo-
| men as men are present and we have aview OF a
f; crowd OF men recoing and receiving bullets in
their faces in the foreground of picture. when
| the firing party is n long distance in their rear
The coy attitude of the two lovers sitting on
| log amid selected Western scenery is also
worthy OF notice. The heroes. or rather the
| moving agents OF this political tale, are two
| Chicago reporters. who have the happy hyp-
motto faculty Of gathering their hated political
| opponents together and Of making them de-
| clare their purposes and their past iniquities
in loud tones and in language Ineligible in
the far West. while the reporters listen at con-
|
York that these young men had poor opinion
OF that city. Some of their structures and some
| of Mr.. Morriss own we quote In case any one
should feel like amending his ways:
sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for less of
crime than is nightly practiced in great metropo
lis; and the crimes OF New York not confined to
the lor hut practiced by the rich. and often in
the sacred name Of art.
The lower classes of New York society occasionally
times ind!scriminate in their social relations hut
| the rchnements OF vice left to the proud de-
scendantI Of tho Van Dykes and Van Nostrands.
who have travelled on the Continent. and who have
transplanted from corrupt Paris improvements on
| old-fashioned deprayity.
| New Workers. prone to boast OF their superior
ity over the denizens Of other cities but 1t is fact
that the American metropolis IL inferior in culture,
| intelligence and morals to almost city In the
| world.
Tho people of New York are provincial lot.
| There are good men and women in New York.
| but they arc not numerous.
| Anew Yorker don't read ANYTHING but what he
| finds In the stupid journals of Gotham. genuine
| New Yorker read anything outside of New York or
| London? Perish tho thought"'
! 1.-THE reporters poky and stupid as the rest
| of the inhabitants of Manhattan Island. The best
of them could barely fill the bill on Chicago paper.
| They are bloated with concct in this Jay town
| that they play only on the one string. except
once in a while when they switch of to Lunnon'."
And it is a slow town. too. Even the FIRE depart
ment is not allowed to move faster than walk"
THE joke Of 1t all, however. is in the extreme
self complacency OF tho Ciothamites. They believe
their city is superior to any other and its inhabitants
the most knowing in the world"
In the face OF so much disapproval we hest
tate to express any opinion rs to the refine
ment or literary style OF Mr.. Morrs's work.
! lest it be regarded in Pueblo as Eastern super
ciliousness. We shall content ourselves with
repeating a bit OF home criticism from the
Reform Press OF Pueblo kindly sent to us with
his book by Mr.. Morris:
| HannA's darlngs are doing their cussing over this
book in large gobs. in direct ratio with their Govern
| ment contracts. The book 10 better than any circus
you ever saw.
Major Gen. Joseph Wheeler's book on The
Santiago Campaign. 1898" which was first
| published year ago when 1t was reviewed in
THE Sun. appears again with a new imprint.
Drexe Biddle. so far can see. no other
change has been made In the handsomely got
, ten up volume.
"Rembrandt." by II. Knackfuss. translated
by Campbell Dodgson uemcke 4 Buechner).
is the latest volume In the admirable series OF
: monographs on Artists" edited by Prof.
Knackfuss and published by Nelhagen 4 Klas-
ing. Room is found for 157 illustrations in
|
page pictures. and many reproduced astonish-
, ingly well. The low price for which these ex-
celent monographs can be sold is ono OF the
marvcls OF the improved methods in book max
/ ing and book selling that modern German
, | publishers have devised.
: Under tho title Life Indeed" Fleming II.
, Revell Company the Rev. DIR. Edward b. Coo.
, senior minister OF the Collegiate Church. has
collected dozen more OF his sermons,
| oh ha 1aJ 10 n
I cation.
4 Mr.. George Stanisaus Council has written
four harmless little pieces which he calls - The
Old Patroon and Other Plays" William H
= Young Il CO... In The Old Patroon." the
r scene Of which is laid in Schenectady. he tries
a his hand at negro dialect. broken German and
$ blank verse. as well as stage English. We
d hardly think that there is Immediate need Of
l. the stern warning prefxed to the plays: THE