The age-herald., 1901-06-02


 continuing the author shows how the high respect of the German for productive science and art brings 1t about that the profession of the university teacher stands as the most highly esteemed socially. and titles and decorations and other symbolic forms of public appreciation add to the outer stimulants to the greatest efforts. While in America nothing similar stands as yet as temptation before the mind of the young American. And as an English professor put 1t, No. the American Is not anxious for the money itself; but money is to him the measure of success, and therefore the career needs the backing of money to raise 1t to social respect and attraotiveness, and to win the finest minds"
 This, the author concludes, Is necessary to win the finest minds among the college graduates for productive scholarships among university professors and to pre- vent them from entering profession of law and medicine as they now do as promising a greater need of social success.
 One of the most remarkable books soon to be issued from the press is entitled Modern Eloquence" and Is a work of oratory. For the first time the best after dinner speeches, lectures, addresses and anecdotes of a number of brilliant men of the present generation have been gathered together Such names as Thomas B. Reed, Chauncey M. Depew, Wendell Phil lips, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Irving, Lord Beaconsf1eld and number of others are mentioned. But John B. Gordon Is the only Southern man included in the list This ought not to be. For the South has many notable orators who could easily have graced the list And Alabama itself would have gladly contributed the name and fame of her own Yancey. This in- stance alone gives peculiar interest to the efforts being made at the present time by the B. F. Johnson Publishing Company of Richmond, Va, in regard to Southern lit erature. Southern history an1 Southern authors This publisher Is now sending out attractive folders calling special atten- ton to the numbers of text books publish ed by Southern authors at the present time. United States History" by Mrs. Susan Pendelton Lee Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia" by Carlton Mccarthy of Virginia School Chemistry" by Chas. Baskerville of North Carolina; Southern Literature by Miss Louise Manly of South Carolina; Southern States of the American Union," by pr. J. L. M Curry of Virginia, being a few of the books mentioned by this Southern firm
 A new work has recently appeared from the pen of an author of Atlanta, Ga, who writes under the nom de plume of "Don Jon.- Not the least remarkable part of the work is the authors enterprise in assisting the publisher in placing the story before the reading public. The work Is entitled Miss Incognita," and is story based upon mysticism, love, intrigue and re- venge; and plays upon every chord of the human emotions. In a recent letter the author writes, Miss Incognito is having a big run North. I have written my pub fishers to send you a copy of the book This book will sell itself If you will start it.-Yours truly, Don Jon." It is said that the author is we'll known in literary life under another name.
 Few authors who achieved the extraor- dinary success that Winston Churchill won with "Richard Carvel' would have waited two years before launching an- other book. Yet this Is what MT Churchill did. and the chances are that he will be abundantly repaid for his self restraint. ",rhe Crisis Is an earnest and ambitious piece of work that may invite some blame, but will undoubtedly demand great praise. Admirers of Richard Car vel will be glad to meet his descendants settled In St. Louis where they have es- abolished some position. The heroine of .'The Crisis''-Virginia Carvel-is--well-- just such a great granddaughter as might be expected of Richard Carvel and Dorothy Manners. The opening scene of the story is placed just before the opening of the war and continues until after the close of the war. Grant and Lincoln and Sherman figure in the story and one of the most effective scenes of the story Is the last glimpse of Lincoln, "The Man of Sorrows when Virginia Carvel goes to as of him a pardon for her cousin. Colfax, who has been caught uniformed within the union lines and sentenced to death. "virginia," said Mr Lincoln, 'I have not suffered by the South, I have Suffered with the South. Your sorrow has been my sorrow, and your pain has been my pain. What you have lost have lost And what you have gained he added sublimely, T have gained" He led her gently to the window. The clouds were flying before the wind, and a patch of blue sky shone above the Potomac. With his long arm he pointed across the river to the Southeast, and as if by a miracle a shaft of sunlight fell on the white houses of Alexandria. "The Crisis' is spirited book, and is a very important addition to contemporary American literature. It will undoubtedly be one of the leading books of the new year. PAUL PRY.