The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-24

The Mannerings-Republics
VS.. Women Red-Head
Gill-Kaiser's Speeches.
Cap'n Simeon's Store.
The Water Fowl
Family Wee
Macgreegor-A
Girl Of Ideas.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
The Emerson Centenary-cien.
John d. Gordon's Memoirs.
JamesBraneh Cabelrs Nov
clette The ChildHouse-
kceper-Teaclers on
Strike Philoso-
ply -Four.

elsewhere o1l INC centenary Oh liic #plr VI
OF Ralph Waldo Emerson. the phioso-
pher. poet and Unitarian rclgion!st OF
Concord. His career may be summed
up in brief az follows:
Born In Boston. May % 1903; entered
the Latin. School. 1913; moved 10 Concord
to live IN the aid manse. 1914 returned
to Boston. ISL: entered Harvard Coli
lege. August, 1877; Graduated, 1871:
taught In q school for young ladies In
Boston. 1924: returned TO Cambridge
to study divinity, 1925; licensed to preach.
October 10. 1926; went south for his
health, November 81 1926: spent n Year In
Cambridge, preaching often. s1S27-2S; or
dained as colleague Of Rev. Henry. Ware
Jr, minister Of the Second Church Bos-S
ton, March Il 1s29; married to Ellen .le \
Louisa Tucker. September, 1879; death
of his wife. 1881: resigned his, passionate.
December 3d. 1892; sailed for Europe.
December % 1897: returned September
1888; began to- lecture. November ny ~ 3
" ent to Concord TO live, October, Z S3i
married TO Lydia Jackson, September nue.,
1926; secured the publication Of tsarlyllc,si
"sartor Resartus," 1896: publis he'd 5s9tN Ma y y
4 ture. September. 1885,; delivered his Phi
Bcta Kappa address on t"The American
Scholar. August 81. 1887 Called BY Dr.
Holmes Our intellectual Declaration OF
Independence'): took part In the found- :
ing OF 'tThe Dial.'' $50. published MS
first series of Essays. 1s41; published his
first volume of poems. 1876 made I, Sec
ond visit To England. 1877: returned to
Concord. 1916; published ssRepr esenfative
Men, 1850: publish cd 4 fISng ish 81 ATS,
1856; received from Harvard the degree OIL
IL D.. 1886. elected an Cverseer Of liar-g
ward College. 1857; visited aIifornia, ISL;
his house burned. and rebuilt ,by2 fri lends
is72; a third journey to Europe. October
ls7o; died at Concord. April .2I, lss2.
THE KAlsER,s SPEECHES. Based Based
upon !, compilation made by a. Oscar
Klaussmann Translated and edited
with annotatlons by Wolf Won &sehler-
brand. Harper and Rrot hers PUBLISH
ers. New York. 81 80 net
The idea liz TO give a character portrait
of Emperor u. OF sGeEn]al,y ~
the benent OF American readers, IT lets
him speak for himself. and leaves us 70
draw our own conclusions The c0nciti-
.s.ons are not Invariably fatterinE TO HIS
Majesty. although We see QUICKLY that
the Emperor is strong and earnest man q
And a ruler not ito be trifed with. It is
only fair to add that Mr.. Wolf Won Sch'er-
brand is not In favor at Berlin, where he
used to represent the - ssociaten fress.
and finds 1t better. for his, health TO reside
in New York.
1he book contains all OF the Emperor's
snportant speeches In full. particularly
1haee In which he touches upon Am rlcar
fairs and topics OF Interest to 5Amerl-
ems. There arc given his notices and
{ the most Characteristic sayings, lpothSpe-
fore and after he became Emperor, tnls
giving a more thorough insight Into sAls
character Klaussmann's compilation was
p;,bljshed In Germany under the sanction
OF Wilhelm himself. IA
Mr.. Won schlerbrand. by the way. Is
& credited with an amusing story, showing
Row Americans arc viewed ABROAD. IKE
was stopping over night at one OF tho
leading hotels in Cologne, on his way TO
Paris. a few years a go. when tho owner
81 the hotel. an intelligent woman, ems
RACED him In converse ton about, America.
Mr. Won Schierbrand being an American
citizen. IT wonder why we never have
any real Americans at our hotel" she
said. We've had atlot OF them. summer
after summer, but only white or black
ones and not many of the latter. But
We never had any red ones. Can you tell
mo why? I always understood the red
ones were the real Americans, and tho.
others only immigrants.
rHE. WARD OF KING cANUTE. A
Romance OF the Danish Conquest, BY
Ottlie A. Piljencrancz. author Of The
Thrall of Left the Lucky" a. G. Me-
Clurg & Company, publishers. Chicago
si.5h
This story Of Randalin. the beautiful
Danish maiden. who served King Canutes
disguised as a page. Ia spontaneous and
unhackneyed, and has medieval at
mosphere of the most inspiring kind
The reader forgets his practical twentieth
rentury point of View and loses himself
In the glamour OF those brave old days
of the Danish conquest OF England.
II one were suddenly called upon 10
Sxplain, forfthe benefit Of, inquirlng young
minds Just who King Canute was. It
Is doubtful whether a large proportion Of
us could go beyond the old story Of the
monarch who sought TO control the In
coming tide by n word of command,
But the fame OF the real Csnute rests
IN moro glorious deeds than this In THE
Ward of King tCanute," the monarch
appears as a young man, the fiery, az
Rressive leader OF the Danish conquest OF
England. Although he is not the romantic
hero of the story. his striking persona litv
dominates the scene and the reader VIII
be glad to know more of him for he
seems to have been entitled ito a more
heroic tradition than the one most gem
orally accepted,
OF the plot,itself 1t would be hardly fair
10 give the details. but we feel sure II
Will be emineptly salts tory to readers
who long to revive II he ssensatl lions they
felt When reading their Frossart and
their king Arthur,
The Illustration Of the romance deserves
especial meptinn. They are signed The
Kidneys and are tile work OF Mr.. and
Mrs Troy Kinney, qf Chicago. and New
York, who came into fame through their
Illustration of I Left the 3I.ucky," 81
The Ki1neys make an especial point
of the realism and historical accuracy of
their pictures, we arc told that every d a.
tan Of costume or arHor. every pamenti
or weapon for these pictures was care
fully studied. sfor and FIVE months sth hey
worked steadily on these six Illustrations
TO the exclusion of everything else, The
pictures are worked UP In OIL more in
gallery exhibition than for book iilustra-
hon, and are. Of course, many times
larger than the plates in the hook, AS
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