The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-25
M. Steinert & Sons,
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Maurus Jokai. All are fully illustrated.
AS the old west disappears, it is a
satisfaction to know that the characters
to which 1t owes its picturesqueness are
not lost for the painter or the chroni-
cler of the future. What Mr.. Frederick
Remington has done with his inimita BILE
pencil, Mr.. f. Hough has accomplished
in his tales, which form true portrait
gallery of western worthless. 1t Is some
years since Mr.. Hough made name for
himself with his STORY of a Cowboy"
He is now writing for Leslie's Monthly
a notable series-"The smuggler,'' 1.-THE
Sheriff. 1.-THE Bad Man" etc.--every
one of which is evidently a portrait
from the life.
Apropos Of the terrible death rate
dents of natural history are everywhere
wondering how the Roosevelts Of the
future are going to distinguish them
selves in Colorado. The happy solu-
ton seems to be that recently proposed
by Mr.. Seton Thompson, who suggests
that the highest form of sport will not
be reached till the camera supplants the
rifle In this bloodless slaughter the
most wonderful results have been
achieved by A. g. Vallihan, of Colora-
do, who amuses himself Swapping
great cats, lions and bears at the rather
uncomfortable range of thirty feet or
less, An article by Mr.. Wallihan, in
Leslie's Monthly for June, is Illustrated
by the most successful Of his photo
graphs.
Mr. Eden Philpotts is one of the small
number of sensible novelsts who do
not take their first success as signal
for letting down the flood-gates and
pouring forth work, good, bad and in
different. upon a sweet tempered public.
For this reason readers of discrimina-
ton have noted with satisfaction the in
terval which has elapsed between the
publication of 1.-THE Sons of the Morn
ing and the announcement of a new
book by Mr.. Philpotts. Meantime, It is
enough to read "Cross-Ways," a nov
elette by this author, In the June num-
Der of Leslie's Monthly, to feel afresh
his undeniable power and the discrimi
nation with which he makes use of it.
Regarding 1.-THE Negro at Home;
What the Negro Really Is" q veritable
SedrCn-USnl Is luTIeu uppn lHe HeSTU
problem at its center by Professor w.
E. Burghardt Dubois. of Atlanta Uni
in the Worlds Work for June
doubleday, Page &, Coz Professor
Dubois, himself a negro, has taken the
black belt of Georgia, where the black
ton is densest, as particular
locality, and tells frankly of the real
negro as he is at home. The movement
to the country and its reaction, the
growing ownership of land, family and
home conditions, the heritage slavery
has left The negro, his shiftiessness, his
good ma ture; in fact. a glimpse of the
inner heart of the man is given. The
text is illustrated by some remarkable |
pictures made by Mr.. A. Radcliffe
Dugmore.
slave ancestry" says Professor Du-
Bots, "and a system of unrequited toll |
have not improved the efficiency or tenn
per of the mass of black laborers. Nor |
IS this peculiar to Sambo-it has in |
history been just as true of John and |
Hans, of Jacques and Pat, of all ground |
Town peasantries. Such is the situation |
If the mass of the negroes in the black |
1elt to-day, and they are thinking about |
t. Crime and cheap, dangerous So |
eialism are the inevitable results of this