The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-13

maddenlng. The one Woman
should be read. and read widely; it should
be thought about, and thought about
deeply; it should be discussed, and with
out fear or favor: and after it all. even il
it IS exasperating. you viii decide that il
K i great book
While many Northern papers and ma
gazines relegate It to prison and death,
it Is particularly noticeable that many
leading newspapers, like the Omaha
World Herald, Atlanta Journal, Brooklyn
Times, Louisville CourierJournal SYRIA
cuse Post-Standard. Plttsburg Post. Mn
neapolis Times. Brooklyn Standard Union.
Buffalo Express. Toledo Blade, Plttsbur.
Bulletin. Indianapolis Sentinel, Brooklyn
Eagle. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Nash
vile American and Richmond Times-Dis
patch have very cordial praise for it, The
Yankee papers all damn 1t lncontinently.
They have not forgotten or forgiven the
blow given by The Leopard's Spots a
large number Of eminent authors and
ministers Of the gospel give il praise
without stint. The editors Of the New
York Bookman and New York Critic IN
dorse it bravely and agree that it IS a
story of great power. The ablest and
most successful historical writer of the
South, Hon. Thomas +. Watson, Of
Georgia. saws it IS mastery and first
class. I note hat Rev. Dr.. A. Gunniston,
president Of the st. Lawrence University;
Reverend T. j. Gleeson. a professor in a
Chicago college; Prof. L. c. Prince, Of
Dickinson College, Pa; Prof. II. b. Jud-
son. University of Chicago: Rev. G. 3.
Mitchell. D. d, Cleveland, Ohio; Rev.
J. NJ. Bruce, D. D.. pastor in New York;
nv r
Waltz. Dean of School Of Law, University
Of Maine; Rev. DIT. p. s. Moxon. Spring
field. Mass: Rev. DR.. y. ]. Rowland,
Secretary American Baptist Publication
Society, Philadelphia; Rev. Dr.. j. t. Mac
Intosh, Philadelphia; Rev. DR.. J. B. Gran
fill, Texas; Rev. z. Benjamin Adams, D.
D, President University Of Nebraska;
Rev. P. B. Gurnsey, President Roger
Williams University, r. l.; General
Horatio G. King, Brooklyn, n. Y. and
other men Of note and influence all praise
and commend it. General King says 1T
is the strongest novel | have read in
years. 1t should have an immense sale
and do great good The eminent PreSi-
dent Andrews pronounces 1t "a powerful
piece Of fiction" He writes: 'In both
his stories Dixon introduces. on several
VI liz tiio1llSAilooS SdpJCAIc INV ptAOI LIZ
world warnings the most trenchant and
Illuminating
Rev. DR.. Rowland, of Philadelphia,
says: The One Woman is a scathing
treatment of evils affecting modern so
ciety. | congratulate the author and hope
the book may have the widest reading
Dean Watz gives this: 1.-The One Wo-
man is a wonderfully fair and graphic
Jo,ort.4;, 90 IT, oIor,o,{o1 f1.co- +bo+
control both society and individuals, and
powerfully upholds the institution Of
marriage. What Kids work on Social
Evolution is in the scientific world, this
book seems destined to be in literature
and art"
Rev. Dr.. Clarke, President of the United
Society Of Christian Endeavor, Boston,
has this approval: 1.-THE One Woman
IS of thrilling interest and compelled me
to finish it though it took half the night.
! Above all, it teaches a lesson today which
the world needs TO learn, and slips the
mask from a hideous sin against the
s~anctity of the family. l am glad to see
that the book has been so widely read
already, and believe its good work has
only just begun"
Rev. DR.. J. NJ. Bruce. Of New York,
oPNF AAAIF VIII o1AACA
The One Woman's is a story of absorb
ing interest told with c~onsummate skill.
It is coherent and concise. There is not
a false note or a foolish pronouncement
| from beginning to end. 1t is sane, whole
some, unerringly true to the best things
and tremendously strong-all the stronger
because of It's brevity and self-restraint
and what a background of New York,
That is one of the many strokes of genius
III the book. The author dipped his pen
in his own hearts blood to draw that
picture
I wish to correct a few errors made by
MI. Harrison in the oxford Ledger con
E., corning my father, the late Russell Kings
bury, ana myself, in a kind notice of me.
| correct because [ do not wish to wear
hOnOrs that are not mine. | do not pur-
pose to appear in borrowed plumes.
would not correct the errors, but one
paper. the Fayetteville Observer, was
kind enough to copy with pleasant edi-
torial introduction, and 50 the errors
spread. Mr.. Harrison says my father
we'd at Raleigh, and thence moved to OK
ford. He lived at Halifax and from that
Colonial village moved to Oxford in the
spring of 1892. I left the University of
North Carolina before graduation. and
never received any distinction while there
except two compliments conferred by the
Dialectic Society Of which was a mem
Der. | never wrote a book Of any value.
In 1857. I published a small volume OF
some $50 pages that met with very little
sale. In 1876 | wrote a small book Of less
than 100 pages that soon disappeared. |
have been a planner and not a writer OF
books. | lave planned three works
History Of North Carolina; two volumes
OF Biography of North Carolinians from
the eighteenth century UP to Governors
Graham and Vance: and one or more vol
umes IN Criticism and Biography Of men
OF letters. Owing to circumstances and
embarrassing conditions I could complete
no book. I have written a half dozen
tentative essays upon eminent literary
and historic characters, and 4 few short
imperfect biographical sketches of NortF
Carolina MS RII+ tha nr0DOSad yoi,,n,oc