The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA.

college education and is today heir TO
fortune.
COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA.
Country Life in America for November
is the best number OF that beautiful and
practical magazine which has yet been
issued. Prof. L. H. Bailey begins new
series of articles on How to Make a
Living Out of Doors Walter Camp con-
tributes "The English Golfers in Amsrl-
ca" an interesting analysis of the lessons
to be learned from the recent interna-
tional golf tournaments. The great feat.
ure of the number, however, is "The
Training of Hunting Dog" which shows
just how to teach every important lesson
a setter Or pointer must learn. The TWEEN
ty-three illustrations are a miracle OF
Photographic skill and patience. How
to Grow Big Chrysanthemums without a
Greenhouse" sets forth novel scheme
which is 50 ingenious End practical that
we expect to zee 1t generally adopted
during the coming season. "a Country
Home for $780," tells how young couple
bought a farm of forty-two acres for $3.50
and rebuilt the old farm house with their
own hands at a cost OF S465. The great
estate of Spencer Trask at Saratoga with
its elaborate pagoda and rose gardens
and its magnificent view of valley and
mountain scenery is superbly illustrated.
''The California Bulbs describes and illus
trates Mariposa tulips and other choice
wild-fowers of the Pacific coast and ex-
plains how to grow these novel and in
teresting plants in eastern gardens. "The
Winter Window Garden tells how to
grow the common bulbs like tulips, hya-
! cinths and narcissi. and makes one want
to start window garden at once. Cold
frames and How to Use Them Is an
other timely article which shows how to
extend both ends of the growing season
Of plants without going to the expense
of erecting a greenhouse.
The discussion of the relation of the
standing of man in academic studies
to his success in life is an old one, but
perhaps the most authoritative contribu-
tion to the discussion which has yet ap-
peared is A. Lawrence LowelPs paper IN
the October Atlantic upon College Rank
and Distinction in Life. BY means Of q
careful and scientific statistical compari-
son OF the Harvard rank-lists with the
summary Of names in "Who's Who in Am
| erica" Mr.. Lowell has achieved some
very suggestive as well as unimpeachable
results. His general conclusion that the
qualities when make for success in life
are not opposed to those which make for
scholarship will re-assure many students.
Particularly interesting is his summary of
the chances of attaining distinction open
to those who go in for the various
branches o. athletics. 1t is shown, for ex-
ample that the captain Of the crew has
as good a chance for eminence in the
world as the high-rankman and vastly
better chance. curiously enough, than his
| fellow who is captain of the football team.
or of the baseball nine. There are many
similar conclusions in Mr.. LowelPs paper
which are sure to arouse wide interest
and cause much debate.
| ODD IDEA FOR ILLUSTRATIONS.
The publishers of the Letters of a Son
to His Self-made Father" Charles Eus-
tace Merriman's answers to the Letters
of A Self-made Merchant to His Son"
which will be issued early in November
have hit upon a happy idea for illustrat-
ing this book. The illustrations are open
and ink sketches by Fred KulZ, new
Boston artist whose work is on very orig
inal lines. They are six in number, three
being Of the son and three of as many
different young ladies in whom he is in.
terested Those Of the son represent three
important stages of his career: first, as
a college boy; second, as a drummer for
Graham and Company of Chicago; third
as manager Of his fathers pork-packins
establishment. The frst young lady is
the one he makes love to while in col
lege; the second. is the Chicago society
girl whom he thought he loved when be
was a travelling salesman for his father;
and the third is the girl he marries.
THE MONEY VALUE OF TRAINING.
Of unusual value and interest in the No
yember st. Nicholas will be discussion
hy IarnaS mr. Dodge president of the Am.