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The Washington times., 1902-09-14
"The Night Side OF London"

Mr.. Robert Machray. the author of
The Night Side OF London" just pub
lished by j. B. Lippincott Company, was
born in 1857 at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland and is a nephew of the Most
Rev. Dr.. Machray, archbishop of Ru-
pert's Land, primate of Canada. prelaie &
OF the Order of st. Michael and St
George, and after he had taken high
degree al Cambridge. England, was as
sociated for some years with his uncle
at Winnipeg. Manitoba There he was
ordained and became a canon of st.
Johns Cathedral, and professor of ec-
clesiastical history in St Johns Col
lege, University of Manitoba He also
held various other positions of import
ance, among them being that of ex-
aminer in English literature. Mr..
Machray's initial idea in undertaking mis-
new work, THE Night Side OF London,
was TO form set OF studies for a Sc
ries of London novels he has had in
anticipation He is the literary critic
OF the London Sketch
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Some New Editions.

Among new editions TO be brought out
by Little, Brown g. Co. this fall are
the following: ''Plutarch's Lives,
oxford edition in five volumes; 1.-The
Colonel's Opera Cloak by Christine C.
Brush, with Illustrations Madame
D'Arblay's Diary" two volumes, limited
to 500 copies; new thirtytwo volume
edition OF Charles Levers works; How
to Live by DR.. Edward Everett Hale :;
Little Women" and AN Old Fashioned
Girl" Louisa NJ. Alcott's famous sto-
ries, capitally illustrated: Hamerton' S
"Etchings and Etchers'' and THE Intcl-
lectual Life" Helen Hunt Jackson's S
"Glimpses of California;" Hours With
German Classics" by Frederic Henry
Hedge; popular illustrated edition Of
The Three Musketeers," by Dumas. and
Miss Belladonna." by Caroline Ticknor
with additional chapters.
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
A New Life of Dumas.

The constant interest in the novels OF
Alexander Dumas, sr., has greatly IN
creased of late, owing largely 10 the
fact that in July of this year was cele-
brated d centenary of his birth. or es-
pecial timeliness, therefore. IS the large
volume which the J. B. Lippincott Com
pany will issue almost immediately un-
der the title of Alexander Dumas
(pere), His Life and Works" The au-
thor is Arthur F. Davidson, NJ. A.. for
merly a scholar of Keble College, OK.
ford, who has been a close and earnest
student of the French novelist.
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races have been totally eliminated
though, like the American Indian, they
have remained stationary, or nearly So
while others have advanced in DUsition
and intellect.
| The author discusses. among other
things, the transmission of artificial
| characteristics, and the possible degen-
/ Grafton of civilized nations. He ridi-
cules the fears of some writer's who
have prophesied the growth of new
Rome, and the vice and decadence
of the Roman Empire, on the soil
of Great Britain. In this he is
undoubtedly right. History does not
repeat itself to the extent of re-
producing particular characters when
the conditions which produced them
have passed away. 1t is quite true. as
Mr.. Lane says, that a new Nero or Do
mitian would be impossible in England.
A Defense of Lynchipg.
1t is an odd commentary on the
strength of race prejudice in our day
ing to take scientific view of social
problems cannot handle this one with
any degree of accuracy. There is in one
chapter most curious defence Of the
practice of lynching. Mr.. Lane takes the
view that the community which lynches
has really greater regard for life
than the community which does not
lynch. since it proceeds to such extreme
and wrong of human action. He makes
the general, and old, statement that the
crimes for which men are lynched are
of the unspeakable nature. As a matter
one-fifth, by actual account, were for
this crime, as the statistics on lynch
ing proved during recent year. In at
least twenty more cases the victim was
not guilty of any crime. 1t is safe to
state that in about one-third of the
lynchings which take place in this coun
try, mob violence. whisky, and desire
for excitement, coupled with careless
ness of the rights of the victim, are re-
sponsible. These facts knock the foun-
dations out from under Mr.. Lanes ar
gument. and with very little trouble
they could have been ascertained.
In later chapter is discussion Of
the race problem, in which he author
ma kcs surprising jump to the conclu-
sion that 1t is necessary either to as
sumo the essential intellectual equality /
of all races or to admit an essential an
difference between the brain of
the Caucasian and the brain of the
negro, amounting to the difference be-
tween a man and dog In other words,
he has once more disproved one of his
1wn arguments by taking a back track
10 an ante bellum theory that negro
vas not man. He further says:
There are thousands of whites. born
md reared to youth in circumstances
quite as poor as those of the majority
Of negroes, who have yet risen TO fore
most places as men of intellect
This is statement so broad as to be
;areless. 1t is true that there is here
lnd there a white man, born in a log
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
A Novel of Chicago.

In DR. Bryson," novel annoupe-
ed by the scribners for early publ
cation, the author. Frank II. spearman,
who has already won reputation as
writer OF stirring railroad stories, has,
1t is said. abundantly demonstrated his
talent for more sustained fiction. His
theme is the career OF an eminent sur
geon, the hero Of The modern drama
that the warfare of science with death
and disease constitutes. and interviewer
with it is love story.
The scene is Chicago and the back
ground OF situation and events forms
realistic picture.
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elimination of inferior races. What
this condition of equality is reached he
does not go so far as to explain. There
have been philosophers who have held,
instead, that the human race as whole.
is gradually. and with accelerating
force. rising in the scale of being: that
the inferior members of society are ris-
ing, though NOT to actual equality with
their superiors, because the latter are
also developing; and that this process
may go on to an infinite extent. because
the possibilities of human nature are
both infinite and varied. The superior
in an age of brute force, for example,
is by no means certainly the superior n
an age of intellect: and it is conceivable
erned the world might result in the de-
thronement of an intellectual caste
which had no moral perception. OF these
two theories of human progress readers
may take their choice.
The defects of this book lie chiefly in
certain pedantry of style, which inter-
feres with its force and clearness, and a
looseness of assertion which, in dealing
with so large subject, is dangerously
inaccurate. Mr.. Lane is too fond of
saying that such and such a thing will
never" happen, or that a phenomenon
invariably occurs. The accuracy of a
statement of that kind is upset by one
authentic exception, or one unexpected
development. 1t is most dangerous, in
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literary NOTES.
Mark Twain on General Funston.

The addenda TO Mark Twain's recent
satire on General Funston in the North
American Review" are even more char
acteristc of the genius of the author
i than the main article
| The first supplement is to be found il
the following extract from a letter TO
Ernest Crosby, author OF Captain Jlrks,
Hero"
Il recognize that Chapter Y of Cap
tain Jinks, Hero is a successful satire
on General Funston-at least almost Il
successful one No satire of Funston
could reach perfection, because Fun
ston occupies that summit himself, and
all other applicants must be content
with a stage below In his own person
Funston is satire incarnated. and ex-
haustively comprehensive: he is satire
on the human race He has made aile
whole race of man ridiculous. including
our Government-which has made him a
brigadier generalIin the regular army,
after loftily refusing that very position
to a worthier man in civil life a Sing
Sing. who had nothing against MIN ex-
cept that he had robbed church and
drowned his grandmother. This nepo-
tism is remembered now. and is causing
injurious remark. MARK TWAIN"
The agitation of certain good folk in
Denver TO exclude ''Huckleberry Finn"
from the public library as an immoral
book. called forth second supplement,
and this ii highly "colored'' one. In a
letter TO Denver paper Mark discloses
what he considers to be the cat in the
meal tub
Said cat consists Of few persons
who wish to curry favor with Funston.
and whom God has not dealt kindly with
in the matter of wisdom.
Everybody in Denver knows this, even
the dead people in the cemeteries. 1t may
be that Funston has wit enough to know
that these good idiots are adding an
other bowling absurdity to his funny
history. II may be that God has char
itably spared him that degree of pene-
tration. slight as ii is. In any case, he
is, as usual, a proper object of compass
sion, and the bowels of my sympathy
are moved toward him.
NO; if Satan's morals and Funston's
are preferable to Huck's. let Huck take
"a back seat; they can stand any ordi-
nary competition. but not combina
ton like that. And I'm not going to de-
fend them, anyway"
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has none. We cannot a,gue against a
singer or poet. The poet sings of
what he feels. but science speaks only
of what we know. We feel infnity. but
we cannot know it, fer to the highest
human wisdom the ultimate truths of
the universe are no nearer than to the
child. Science knows no ultimate truths.
These are beyond the reach of man. and
all that man knows must be stated in
terms of his experience. But as to
human experience and conduct science
has word 10 say. Therefore, science
can speak of the causes and results of
pessimism. II can touch the practical
side OF the riddle of life by asking GER
tain questions, the answers TO which lie
within the province of human ex-
perienee."
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
THE PHILOSOPHY OF DESPAIR.

DR.. David Starr Jordan has in press
for publication by Elder & Shepard, San
Francisco, The Philosophy of Despair, =
an essay embodying the reply of science
to pessimism, taking for his text certain
quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Tho fol-
lowing selection from his intr odnctory
lines viii best Indicate the roint of
view:
'In the presence of the infinite prob
lem OF life the voice of science is dumb,
for science is The coordinate and cor
reeted expression of human experience,
and human experience must stop with
the limitations of human life. I.
1t is my purpose here to indicate some
part of the answer of science to the phi
losophy of despair. Direct reply science
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ANYTHING that concerns human nature, tc
say that any particular thing is impos-
sible because it has not happened yet.
On the other hand, the author has done
good service by pointing out the fallacy
of some popular notions. and by taking
view of things that goes below the sur
| face, as rule. His historical facts
| which he introduces them. There is
for example, a page or two showing the
development of communities through
agriculture. which is. in part, as fol-
lows:
The Effect of Agriculture.
"a nomad tribe, struck with the ease
with which wealth may be won by agri-
culture, would tend to remain in a fixed
| locality. In doing this, it would find
that it could not only work a great i'm
provement in its implements of war. but
could also build superior and permanent
Notifications. invulnerable to attack
from the weaker tribes nearby. But
from this quick increase in wealth would
flow corresponding expansion of ideas
of every kind. Wealth would not only
come more complex and more numerous.
New objects of property would constantly
arise. Land would assume an import
ance ii never had had before. The rights
of man to many kinds of wealth would
be in constant dispute. and government
would be necessary to regulate the in
ternal life of the community. Govern
ment, too, would flow from the need of
the group to protect itself against ex-
ternal enemies, and in this way would
arise an instrument of force, or a fight
ing machine, to be used for external de-
tense and internal peace.
The power possessed by community
of this Kind would draw into it COM
munities hard by. either by natural
fusion or by conquest. and this growth
would profoundly alter and expan
every institution, the germ of which ex-
listed in former nomad state. Mere
strength CIR cunning in the hunt. or in
war. lost much of its prestige when
wealth. was iouul W Dt CUUNeTtIDle INTO
power. A chiefs possessions under the
old system were the fruits CT his
strength; whereas under the new sys-
tenn. wealth might enable its possessor.
re-enforced as he would be BY common
interest and incentive, to outweigh with
II the Importance OF mere bodily ,
strength. Strength, when matched
against external enemies, would stil
find its reward in riches, and the |
strongest man iaight still be the rich-
est; but pure bodily strength would |
have lost much of its influence"
The progress caused By this transit |
ton certainly was not toward normal |
mean, either of intellec: or of wealth. |
but toward selection of special indi-
viduals for positions of power. 1hile the
less. fit were not wiped out. but carried
along in the general current of prog
ress. There are NOR: iiiferent kinds
Of men on the earth now than there
we're two thousand years aso. and the
average of intcllig. nee is un-
ioubtedly higher, while But few Inferior
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present conditions. Since it disappear
Gnce the race has come into something
like equal competition will, the white
race for the first time. and it has de-
veloped one unique thing. the Tuskegee
institute, together with several other
schools conducted on the same lines.
It is not likely that the negro brain
will develop along exactly the same lines
as the white, for the racial difference.
bred by centuries of heredity, is there:
but only the most careful and accurate
scientific investigation can determine
what it will do. and to this end it is
important that there should be no blink
ing of facts. Mr.. Lane first says that
the pure negro has never done anything
worthy of note, and then he says that
there is hardly any negro in this country
without some white blood; and then, in
making his calculations on the future
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
The Story of a Thief.

Hutehins .Hapgood is to publish this
fall a study of life in the Ghetto While
collecting his material he made a valu-
able acquaintance. An ex-thief, who
had just finished doing time and not
yet immersed in business took a fancy
to the writer, and in an East Side cafe
told Mr. Hapgood the story CT his life
"a straight. unsentimertaI biography Of
a professional thief. Naturally. this
meant book.
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A NEWSPAPER MANS FISTS.

to be in perfect condition and a good
boxer, so | scored a few knockouts with
out receiving scratch. BY this time I
was recognized as reporter. After
that the strikers gave me all the news
that was going and looked on me as
sort OF cheap hero. In consequence.
when l showed up in the office five days
later. not having had my clothes of in
that time. owing to twenty hours work
day. and with a weeks beard on my
grimy face, | found I'd sent in more and
better news than any OF half dozen
cleverer men. The city editor looked me
over and said: You're disgrace to the
office. Get a shave and twelve hours
sleep. Your salary is raised s. week"
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Kate Douglas Wiggin has established
at Bowdoin College what is to be known
as the Hawthorne prize. 1t is TO be
awarded at the close of each college year
for the best creative work in English"
presented by member of the junior or
the senior class. Mrs. Wiggin has been
working for almost two years upon an
anthology of verse for children, which
will be published by Mcclure Phillips
& Co. this month.
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a New English Author.

Little, Brown & Co. will introduce II
new English novelist to the American
has written a story of adventure, The
Shadow of the Gar" the scene of which
is laid first in Dalmatia and afterward
at Slavowitz. the picturesque capital of
the old Polish principality of Czernova.
The romance deals with the claim OF the
Princess Barbara to the throne, and the
conspiracy of the Duke of Bora. aided
by Russia, to dispossess her of II.
The Washington times., 1902-09-14

Albert Payson Terhune, who wrote "a
Park Row Galahad," in the current mum
Der of "Lippincott's Magazine" was ed
ucated in Europe and at Columbia; trav
eled year in Egypt. Syria. and Greece;
writing Syria from the Saddle on his
return, then going TO work on New
York evening newspaper. where he is
now one OF the editorial staff. The first
hit | made in newspaper work, he
says, brought me my first raise. l was
sent over TO cover one OF the big troll
ley districts in the Brooklyn car strike
OF January. 1895. l went into the
strikers headquarters for news. was
by dozen or so torghs. Luckily they
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cabin. fed on the coarsest of fare, reared
in e home where the adults are Hitter
ate. and receiving only two or three
months schooling in the year, and that
of an Indifferent character, who has
risen to what one might call intellectual
eiT'nence, but these men are exception
al, aEd not at all to be counted by the
thousands. In all literature Burns is
the only poet reared in anything like
such surroundings, and while there have
been many sons Of poor parents who
have become eminent in the world of in
tellect, 1t will generally be found that
their homes and advantages were con-
side: sbly ahead of those of even the
negro of today.
| Here is another sweeping statement:
| Centuries of contact with European
| civilization in America has not produced
a single negro with brain as capable
as that of the white man who is below
the average of his race"
Now, this is an assertion very easily
upset. One exceptional case demolishes
it. There was no need of being quite
so positive. 1t is certainly not fact
that Banneker, the negro who assisted
in surveying the city of Washington, and
wrote the first almanac of American
authorship which attracted any atten-
tion from European savants, had brain
less capable than the average white man
OF his time. 1t may be said that Ban
neker had some white blood, which Is
true. But pure negro who is teacher
of geometry, and has written text book
on that subject, as has one in this city,
cannot be said to have brain inferior
to that of white man who does not
know what geometry is. and cannot
read; and the white man who is below
the average of his race. in these days.
would have to be about on that level.
who is the director OF one of the finest
bands in the city; and that negro surely
has a brain as capable in his line as
that of some white men who are above
the average. 1t is foolish to make such
statements as this, because they are rot
true, and they are unnecessary.
The thing which Mr. Lane might justly
have said was this: that the mental ay-
erage of the negro race as whole is
far below that of the EiiroDedn. AMI
shat it will take a good many genera
tions to bring the two averages within
speaking distance. He might also
have said what is true, that the only
way to raise the average mental ca,
T acity OF the negro is ii i way over
which the white man hi. gone namely, |
manual labor of the intelligen. artisan |
kind 1t is only within one generation |
hat any such training has come any
where rear tn. mass of the race in
America: and The climatic conditions of |
Africa u"e srcll that high mechanical
skill is an exotic which can only be
cultivated there. The ex-
pertinent in racial cultivation which was
cSun when tie negro ca1:e to America
IS the oily ore of its kind i'll history:
and il is ip,f ossihie as yet to say how
It will come out Slavery was aG anacll-
ard as such. artificial under
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Literary Blossoms.

The London Academy has developed
an interest in the literary tendencies of
horticuiturists. 1t finds that host OF
fowers have been named for literary
celebrities during the last year The
florists lists quote among the class of
pelargoniums these new varieties:
Andrew Lang-Glowing scarlet. large
white blotches on upper petals.
Hall Caine-Bright red bloom of i'm
mense size
Ian Maclaren-Warm salmon.
Winston Churchill-Seedling from
"Menelik" and for richness of color in
fancy class. unsurpassed.
Mrs Brown Potter-Decided advance
in the pink-colored section.
The names seem to have been bestow-
ed with peculiar appropriateness
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of the race in this country. he calmly
ignores the amalgam. This is not con-
sistency, and it is not science. In the
ordinary press or magazine article. writ
ten as an expression of the thought of
the people, such inaccuracies are less
important, because, after all. popular
feeling will have to decide the problem
eventually; but when the question ia
discussed from a professedly scientific
point of view, unscientific statements
should not be made. The development
of 100000 persons in a population of
70.000,000. and their place in the indus
trial and social economy. is at least as
important as the bars on pigeons
wings. and IL Darwin thought it wise to
be accurate on the one matter. American
sociologists should be careful in their
statements about the other New York:
The Macmillan Company.)
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
Ellen Olney Kirk.

Mrs Ellen Olney Kirk, author of the
new novel, "A Bit OF Human Nature. =
was born in Southington. Conn. and
lived for several years on Long Island
Sound before coming to Philadelphia.
She is the daughter OF Jesse Olney
the leading geographer OF America She
has written many novels. and thousands
of readers remember her Margaret
Kent" Sons and Daughters" and Il
Daughter of Eve" She grew up in a
literary household. and was but six
teen years old when she began her first
book. Her first published novel. writ
ten in 1875, was called Loved in Idle
ness"
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
English Philistines.

Crockham Hill. Kent. England. has be-
come British East Aurora. a colony
OF literary and artistic optimists has
settled there and intends publishing
The Protest. Journal for Philistines
Issued at the Sign of the Hop Pole. :"
The guild will also issue books made
in conformity with Roycroft ideals, or,
more correctly speaking, modelled more
or less successfully upon the ideals Of
William Norris
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
A Southey Diary.

A Robert Southey diary whose exist
ence had been unknown has been dis
covered amons the papers of the Pease
family OF Darlington. and is soon TO be
published. 1t records Southey's visit
TO Belgium and Holland soon after the
battle of Waterloo. and is said to be an
excellent example of his literary style.
The Washington times., 1902-09-14
Hotel Iihraries

One of the popular London hotels has
conceived the idea of placing little
library of twenty books in each of its
bedrooms. In the interests of the pros
pective readers and by way of gently
advertising its scheme. the hotel man
agement has appealed to some of the
prominent critics for lists of suitable
books