The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-14

..t1shed a book that attracts no
. .|-tanrion in Great Britain. 1t is en-
.The Unspeakable Scot" and it
vile. sIanderous attack upon the
j. generally. 1t is bitter and scot
a' .rf is an effort to ridicule and de-
.o the people of Scotland. It will be
., ..r. renlied to By more than one an
E, .,o of Scotia, and it is to be hoped
~. man with the bludgeon Will be SO
..4,.l as to make him wish he had been
.|r-oIput and aggressive. A country
has produced SO many illustrious
." .--.l men is not to be despised and
fr evel an English literary bully
r.-.r He is said to make a conten-
...r no man was ever born north
.a. Tweed who was not an arrant,
and hypocrite.' Think of a fellow
.f.g ra affirm this OF any people who
either civilized or half civilized.
ea-.nIs roll of great men is long
.t. .aslug. At the head stand Sir
r.rr.r Scott and Robert Burns, two i'm
r~.-.sls in letters.
,r. r1f1anath u. B. Stoddard, a woman
r-aarr gifts and authorship, being
18th novelist and poet, died on August
-. 1912. aged seyanty-nine. She was the
...r If the we'll known critic and poet,
l..r.rf Hanry Stcddard, of New York
.v
HRS augusta Wilson, better known as
,r.- Evans. OF Mobile, Ala, who wrote
...r-i novels in war-times, and after
.f l.torn. IS out with a new book she
..r. "a Speckled Bird" The publishers
... SD -are Of "A big sale they issue 100,-
... comics as the first edition. During
.. rruaf war her story called "Beulah'
n.eh read. In 1862, she published
uua.arus." After that she published
.y.shti.' .Infelice," and the Mercy
1..rfus." | have never had the Gu
~--rv 10 read any Of these books. Her
most famous story was st. Elmo l
-rr. hut of its real merits, / know
r.r..g IL is supposed to be initiative
e Charlotte Broute's famous and virite
.r-re Eyre" Her books have been
r...a.l at. even ridiculed. because OF
--.r .nouldtng winds of laundering
-rf" her parade of the classical, her
manifest study of encyclopedias, her
rumt.sr and fustian and 'highfultin'
rfa.oi. and descriptions. But OF these
.tar. no personal knowledge. IN the
-f-r of he awful food of fiction and
r.~-tEr romance and bad limitations or
sa.- sae is a bold woman to venture in
I'D age TO try her fortunes once more
4, Il Southern writer of novels.
rra magazines have been exposing the
-alv Dreadful character Of Dumas, the
elder. who was half negro. He was
--.rv unrrincipled, reckless and a
-|rafsate Of the first order. He was a
.aa.aund of rare gifts and most dobased
nature. of the Widest excuses, the
lows. possible morals, and the most
.H.nr8us extravaganza, vain, absurd,
r-s..ra-a i'm w~ickedness. and with II al
-f Of good nature and charitable I'M
-ulsae. The New York Bookman, IN It's
r-.r issue had a paper on this most
raaglar of French novelists. Tn study OF
this eminent story teller Will astohlsh
rae readers Of the great trllogy OF TINS
great novelist. who are not acquainted
with his astounding performances ana
his real character. We Gull a 1e" eA-
tracts from the Bookman to let in the
light.
HE at least was q consistent prom
1#-a. lie was not in the strict sense an
honest man. and ne was not what IS now
SO much more admired. a CONSCIENTIOUS
artist. He held himself free for his own
r|..a~lre to do bad actions. and he hela
himself free for his own pleasure 10
write bad books. x i Blu he would
m fact. borrow from anybody if he were
driven TO it. even from history or from
Shakespeare. This indifference to Indebted
hess. This disdain of originality, cannot
bat anucar contemplate to the current
artistic spirit. * i Nobody is quite
certain that any idea which Dumas pre-
saat4l was invented by him. NOBODY Is
el-e certain that any line which Dumas
Published was written by him. But lol
sl that. We know that Dumas was, ana
mist have been. a great man. II
VAS ia this dramatic sequence thal
Dumas was greatest and most readaDle'
1 a&oelIed in a kind of systematic as
astr ana a kind of ORDERLY crime. he
#aa. after all. a Frenchman in more
ways than one. and with all his violence
#o..aE-.5s and appetite there remains
IN bis work something fundamentals
logical"
Of tae iutcnsest ~depravity he had mgr
#-."s. art. tact, taste. s%olidity, fasclna-
lion, and as a story teller has never peer
Sod. and if ever equalled, II was ny
"oE. from whom ne had learned mucl
SOS the case with Hugo, Balzac anc
SOM. other French story writer's. ms
"-.auaheries of Dumas were enormous
."3 his novels are not clean. lnlInold
"a" D"rrades them. That Will not o1fent
".a OF thousands OF readers OF this par
...Iar time.
&. Tom Dixon 5 soon to begin I
-...." tour. He is now writing a secoh'
"''.l snd it will illustrate the ku hlu-
era. Fe viii probably do for this tim