Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-16

The women of Titan should be eSpe-
cially Interested In the books OF Mrs.
Gilman. for she treats boldly and truth
fully Of many problems which must
solve themselves before we can enter
into the heritage promised us. The
cohplete seX~independence Of women,
the cooperation In home industries, as
well as The specialized and communstic
care and education Of the child are her
chief topics. We may not agree win
some of the writer's pronounced Views
on evolution ana her reading Of histori-
cal facts; but perhaps the mos valuable
service rendered in these books Is the
brilliant clearness of every position taxi
on which helps the reader to marshal
his own opinions with the utmost order
and ureclsion. There is not dull line
or a vague sentence IN Concerning
Children nor one paragraph thai is not
helpful To mothers and fathers The
writer does not believe In whipping yet
she does not stop With that statement
merely. She gives other suggestive pun
lshments and penalties as substitutes
for the rod. So you may cling to your
faith I'm the efficacy OF the slipper, and
VET make use Of the various suggestions
i'm cases where Johnny does not require
a wholesome thrashing
To all clubs who devote any time to
child culture, TO school teachers to
wide awake progressive mothers and
fathers. this book viii prove boon
indeed. The publishers speak Of the
| book as original and helpful essays to-
ward the better understanding and de-
velopment Of children, showing that
rare combination Of serious philosophy,
| keen wit. and clever satire which has
| made Mrs. Gllman's former books 50
| successful. Small Maynard K Co.,
Publishers, Boston.
Mayor ]. b. Pond has written one Of
| the most original books Of the century
| called "Eccentricities of Genius" 1t Is
n difficult task for a man to put him
| self into a book, for he often sees him
| self IN a different light TO that IN which
| others see him It Is likewise a Diff
| cult thing 20 put other people in a book
| so clearly that a wayfaring man may
| not err therein; for there again a wr-
| ter must have the capacity 70 see all
] around his subject and not cOniine him
| self to a one-slded glimpse. So that the
| delightful pictures which are given by
| Major Pond of all the great lecturers of
| the last half century are as surprising
| as they are vivid,
| The major tells the story Of how he
| came West, met Ann Eliza Young and
| secured her as q lecturer as his first
venture into the lyceum business,
| Naturally the mormon" people know
| that many of the stories told by Ann
| Eliza were false, and certainly great In
| Jury resulted therefrom 20 hundreds OF
| innocent people; Of all this the major
seems to be aware, yet he maintains
| that his knowledge Of the people con-
| vinces him that they are honest, sim
cere, sober and industrious,
| A letter written by Mrs Susa Young
| Gates to Major Pond on the Ann Eli
| "a" incident Is given in full with many
| commendatory expressions Of the lady
| and her people.
Following this introduction and ex-
| PLANTATION of how the major began his
| work in the lyceum, sketches of prom
| lnent people are given with most eX-
| cellent Illustrations.
| BEGINNING with orators, there are fas-
clnating stories of such men as John
| 4. Cough Wendall Phillips, Charles
Sumner, Chauncey NJ Depew, Col In
| Gersoll Frederick Douglass, Henry
Ward Beecher, De Witt Talmage and
| Spurgeon. the great English divine,
| Then such women as Susan b. Anthony,
| Anna Dickinson, Julia Ward Howe,
| Mary Livermore Clara Louise Kellogg,
| Emma Abbott and Maud Ballington
| Booth all appear under the most truth
| full guise ever put on the pages OF a
| book.
The men and women live, move and
| have their being In the few well-chosen
incidents which are related Of each one.
There are: Josh Billings, Nasty,
Mark Twain, Bill Nye Sir Henry. NJ
Stanley, Lieut. Peary, Joseph Jefier-
son. Sir Henry Irving, Mathew Arnold,
Emerson Howells, Gladstone, p !.
Barnum, Gilmore, Sir Edwin Arnold,
Ian Maclaren, Hall Caine, Crawford
Lew Wallace, Walt Whitman, Ernest
ton-Thompson, Joaquin Miller, ole
Bull and Rudyard Kipling-all these
and many more famous people step
out on the stage erected by the man
ager-author, make their bow, tell a
story or two and down rings the cur
| tain.
| IT is very plain to see why II Is that
| Major Pond has made himself as fam
Gus as the men and women he has
"managed," his measure Is their own!
| No matter what his faults may be, the
| man Is a great man. Great In that he
recognizes greatness, reverences IT, deals
! with II IN a large yet an adroit man
ner. and no matter how big his attrac-
| ton may be- the major still STANDS
shoulder to shoulder with the biggest
| OF them all.
IL Is a most delightful Dook' WIN
every page crowded fun OF orilllaht PEN
pictures. ", -,
The book is published by u W. III
bingham company New YORK.
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