New-York tribune., 1901-12-27

Z f,,I of blossoms 10 his office oalg sHe
| nine vengeance thus:
5000 .1,,-avs noticed that when peoPt- are
sider others eccentric II IS rt Derou that their
n,aIIi17fr In some form Of en)oyrlenI and there
l!.iae an neither compass nor smart, .troert as
oe no neople so devoid OF nature sr;nsn males
the rank and file of commeTciai AIN
. ,as,. for the lay reader to apPIe
-. -. amount of labor. thought ana Tue
,,.-oa of genius that has gone u :. :,
ea,a,ca of medicine what it is to-oaS ,or+
/ ,,71,. brought out in the coilecI4oi -.
,,e-arbies az distinguished medlcaI ii''-- ,..o,
n ren4aD7in Ward Richardson mas ~,
..r,isoinles Of l41sculapius'' OE. + Du''o" -
-! +bro,,gb the fog OF false lheoi
vital processes. many men nav toward
aoob bie ray Of light. The progress
knowledge seems slow in past cen 'ui,lo -o,.or
,o-ad with the last half century Du' 20
% human genius in uncoveTlng the .ba
-. u 80 ,,o,-er been relaxed. Such Is '"e
,rnpression gained from r7adihs u - ,,o,,,-
a55 r,oticas Of which DR.. Richardson mas IN,
0O1 5,lIo,. t5a vrites with the knoWledse
ot The avner+ but with an appreciate" u
- .aforeio,,a1 need to know. Perhaps Ems
a., 4,e-s+ tors have been given a preP'i-N
-. H.. &c not wholly warranted; anu ii'Ne0
-, = -, claim TO presenting coihpi'''
=, ,-.fo,ad view Of the whole hlSlo'S
5ici,,a We are perhaps. most lh'e'e
tho adventures of the pioneers OF l'ou'--' &c
cina-such for instance as Ne00 .
caraar aveynpllfes the difficulties preSeH'
students in early days To OBTAIN d en-, oral-
and a fellow student were obllgeu ~ =,
- ,,,+i,7o Of 1ouvain Of the bones OF a nlAie
eoo+or r,ioled clean by the birds ana oia' a'Ne'e1
by the sun. ,a
10 er,o,.a the homes of the limbs was nor Girl7 ~
ont h,t The iron shackes binding the !sar+g
tne saIIo" 80 of the town were closed re
r1oInad ont all night TO complete ilIeii saoe,on
last when they had the prize IN M M 5 --i+b it
- ,,,ne++on arose what they should 40 ~ -, -,
g - - into I,olIvain they dare not. 80 NJ
buried II wholesale. afterward Tellu Ea,,rt,+ q
meal fitted II together in secret @'iN
forth as a purchase from faIlS
We are constrained. too. to admiration u -lo
,,,,hi who. in an age when independent ooserVa-
lion of nature was scarcely thought o. iooh7u
her in rhe face. and conquered her by marking
dow, what she said, observing her phenomena
and simply reasoning upon them leaving otrIeiS
- 5,,+a-Dre+ DR. Richardson thinks the HIP
,,ocra+es Of Pennsylvania" savors somewhat 100
-,,,c, Of hero worship TO be proper uIle AoI
Tenian7in Rush; but IS willing 10 give 10 'hlS
the only American included in his collection 'le
designation of "the American SydenhaIh- a
versatile scholar and thinker in many lines OF
activity he was more than century aheao ol
his time led the way to reforms. some OF WHICH,
f,,I1v ACCOMPLISHED, have been among the HlosI
bepefcent ever bequeathed from man 10 man
"a healer, a sanitarian, an orator, a man OF lel-
ters and q teacher"
While practice is the only thing that VIII make
the exnert billiard player, practice is only car
rvfng into effective operation certain principles
o4 -r1-efcs with which the player most sooner or
later gain some kind Of acquaintance. Mr.. Lo-
cock, in his book Side and Screw uongmans'
Green & Coz, has concern with theory not in
terms cf mathematics but Of the action OF the
halls when hit in certain ways-of side" and
pull and follow" Of force and velocity II IS
AT once theoretical and practical. and is intended
TO put the moderately advanced amateur IN
possession of physical facts they appear
upon the billiard table in actual play, and as a
guide to the Improvement and refinement Of his
play. It IS, of course, assumed that the prin-
cipies laid down Will be applied in practice.
The author says: IF the ounce Of theory herein
contained is of any assignable positive value
at all, the value Of the pound Of practice which
follows would seem almost to transcend calcu-
lation" The value Of the book 10 American
players is to a certain extent circumscribed by
the fact that It is all based upon the English
game, played upon table with six pockets.
This fact. however. does not. Of course, inval-
date for the American table the great mass of
information and general principle 70 the dif-
fersnt strokes and their effect upon the bail
that is contained in this little treatise. The
plantations are clear and detailed. and the
numerous diagrams are valuable aid in max
ing plain the authors meaning.