The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-02

The revival, not only of the classics,
such as Poe and Dickens, but also OF
ANYTHING that is concerned with GER
tain great historical characters, is very
much in order at the present time.
Among the recent publications of this
character are several volumes concern
| ing Daniel Webster, two or three new
biographies and as many more books
about the man as shown in corre-
spondence. The last volume of this
character 1.-The Letters of Daniel Web
ster," edited by c. H. Van Tyne, Phi.
D., is remarkable for it's completeness
and for the new light it throws upon
Webster's character. Strangely enough
the volume came about practically by
| chance. DR.. Van Tyne, who was as
ISOLATED with Prof. AiacMasters in the
University of Pennsylvania, spent sew
eral weeks in Concord and New Eng
land points gathering material which
Prof. MacMasters wished to use in a
series of /. agaZine articles about Web
ster. In this labor, DR.. Van Tyne I'M
earthed a great many letters, actually
hundreds, in private collections which
so important that plans were made to
secure copies of the most valuable part
of the matter and publish it in book
form.
DR.. Van Tyne is still a comparatively
young man, though this is his third
published work. His first book was
brief history of the United States
which was used by the United States
government for circulation in the Phil
no yAYly mr.
in English and Spanish, English on one
page and the Spanish on the other.
One hundred thousand copies were cir
culated His other book is an import
ant historical work on THE Loyalists
in the American Revolution" which
was published only a few days ago.
1t is as a teacher and reader of his
tory, that DR.. Van Tyne hopes to make
his name best known. He once had
the reputation of being the youngest
bank cashier in Michigan, holding that
position when he was barely twenty
one. Later on he became famous
among his friends as the man who de-
lighted in long touring expeditions. In
the summer of "a he rode a bicycle
from Detroit to the western slope of
the Rocky Mountains, telling the story
of his adventures in a number of news
papers. In the following summer he
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wheel took a steamer to France, and
then covered more than $500 miles of
European roads in less than six weeks
time. He returned to the University
of Michigan, took MS "A. b. degree,
married classmate and went abroad
to study. The honeymoon trip was
taken in a canoe down the Danube
river from Tim to the Black Sea, a
distance of 1000 miles. Mrs. Van Tyne
is the first woman TO take this trip
in this manner. A semester at Heidel-
berg was followed by a walking tour
through the Thuringian forest. and
then a steamster at Leipzig preceded a
similar trip in Bohemia and the Tyro-
liam Alps. Later on he studied six
months in Paris before returning to
take a fellowship in the University Of
Pennsylvania.
Both Mr.. Julian Ralph and Mr. James
Creelman had made their regulations
as writer's before they published any
of their work in book form, but it was
an entirely different kind of writing
from that of novel fiction. Doubtless.
as newspaper men. they had written
considerable fiction. but this was i'm the
regular way Of newspaper ,work-their
regulations were built up because of
their ability 20 tell what they had seen