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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

them how their maintenance of pest
holes. bagnios and filthy tenements is
working an immense evil. He eNco-
rates them for their lives of pleasure
purchased by the grinding down of ex-
tortion Of the poor. The putrid malo-
dorous rottenneSs of municipal politics
is exposed in vital Colors. Most heart
touching and piteous are the descrip-
tons of the miserable lives of the ten
ement-dwellers: their squa1ler the
meanness, the revolving hideousness of
their lives and death; the expressions
levied on them by landlord. saloonkeep-
er, and proVisioner.
There is no doubling the Veracity of
the picture; the colors of life are on
the writer's palette. and he uses them
with conscience and intelligence.
Such is the entire book. There is a
continual battle between these forces
of good and evil. a never ending con-
fiict in the soul of Luella Marsh be-
tween her love for Gordon and her alb
horrence of the life which he wishes her
to lead. A final separation is iueVi-
table between two such radically differ
ent characters, and ii comes amidst pa
thetiC, spectacular surroundings. There
are also excellent pictures of the self
centeree, priggish life of society's
cream. Hypocrisy, malice and all un-
charitableness" are exhibited in their
baleful aspects, and there is a smat-
tering of self-sacrifice and genuine
good to redeem the book from an en-
tirely somber tone.
Its trend is depressing. however.
Though it cannot be denied that it is a
fearful and truthful indictment of the
inequalities of society as they exist I'M
der our chaotic civilization. If pub
licity is a cure for real evils, there IS
some hope that this book will work
much good. Sam w. Dibble.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
BARBIZON DAYS
By Charles Sprague Smith

BY Charles Sprague Smith.
Barbizon must have been one of
Frank Hopkinson Smith In the Way
Places"
Time and space seem almost ami
hilated in this age of electricity; it is
wholly so when an author has the
power, as has Charles Sprague Smith,
of transporting you from America to
this beautiful spot in France, making
you know intimately the Largest group
of men of the creative power with the
brush that have ever assembled any
where since the Renaissance" The
famous group that between 1925 and
1850 frequented this bit of 'unspoiled
primitive nature only a few days walk
from Paris"
Through beautiful wood pictures we
see this unique street with its ada
cent forest of Fontainebleau as it is
now, and see it in these same delight
full way at the time Millet was the
interpreter of life indoors and out, and
when "ForestWard and Empire was all
Rousseau's."
1Ou are DIOuSlI llllO NiOoC SCOSAA
with those men who contributed so
largely to the worlds store house of
art treasures; you know their simple
daily lives, so oft beset with sordid
care; you see their great souls agloW
with the unquenchable fire of art; you
learn to judge their art creatures just
ly and sympathetically guided by so
fine a critic
Biographical sketches of Millet, Car
OF, RosSeau and Barge make up t&e
subject matter of "Barbizon Days.
While clearness and simplicity char
acterize the style many passages
abound in poetic beauty and imagery.
Speaking of Millet's life as one that
strikes deepest root in soil of our COM
mon life, he says:
They are akin to the century-old
children of the wood that grasp te-
naciously the black subsoil of the for
est and aspire steadfastly toward the
sunlight, both grow gnarled and gray
in the struggle, the tree and the man.
The stancher the longerlived of the
twain, speak often courage to his
feebler comrade. When such conrad
ship has existed, the spirit of those
long comings fingers in the still for
est"
There is a life we would talk over
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

Out of a population of over forty
millions of people there are only some
5000 persons who have attained more
than a local reputation for any cause
whatsoever. In all America only 5000
really distinguished" Americans!
These startling facts are brought to
light in the second edition of who's
Who in America" which shows con-
clusively that only about 5000 Ameri-
cans have become noted as factors in
the progress and achievement of the
age.
With a view to determining what eff
feet education has had towards max
ing success in life, it will be interest
ing to note the figures showing the
school training of each of these nearly
5000 men and women of note. Accord
ing to reliable estimates from census
returns there are in the United States
4O,7S2, O07 persons over p years of age.
These are divided educationally about
as follows:
class /. Without school train
ing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. foo-'1'o
Class 2. With only common
school training 'eoZ's9l
'lass 3. With common and
nigh school training ........ 2,l65'S5'
lass 4. With college education
a1ded ....,.......... ......... l,Oh'zVl
The 5000 were selected from these
''asses as follows.
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book are expressed in the following
quotations from his words, addressed
to his father:
Il am not judging you father, when
l say that a life which is content to
spend its greatest energies in money
making is a life that has not only no
attractions for me. but it has a positive
repulsion. To spend the day in a COM
petitive strife that seeks to get more
and more. largely as the expense of the
weak and helpless. to spend night after
night in dressing up in fine clothes and
being amused, to live only with those
select companions who are able to dress
and eat as we'll as we are, to be prac-
tically ignorant of an absolutely In
different to, the conditions of thousands
of human beings in this city, to have
70 ideals higher than a commercial
standard and no passions beyond the
physical appetites-all this i a grow
ing horror to me-
These words addressed to his father
bring about an estrangement, and John
is thrust out in the world to carve his
own career. He goes to his fiancee.
Luella Marsh, who is a member, also
of the idle rich, and telling her of his
changed plans, asks her to give up a
life of ease and frivolity. and join him
in an endeaVor to lift up the masses,
SOdden IN ignorance ana poverty. Her
cultured instincts revolt at this propo-
Sition, and she refuses his proposal.
Crushed by the severing of all the old
ties, and the complete selhshness and
artifcia1ity of his kinspeople and
sweetheart, he takes up active work IN
the slums under the tutelage of Miss
Andrews, a woman suggesting a COM
posite of Florence Nightingale and
Miss Clara Barton. He is thrown into
direct conflict with the people with
whom he has spent his life; he shows
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
CURRENT TOPICS
OF INTEREST.

An expression in Samuel Salts novel
Adam Rush" is attracting some at
tention and being repeated on all sides
In a section where advice to young
man is being given he says:
"A young man who really wants to
get along must do some thinking-not
only for himself. but also for the man
who hires him" This is quite sage
way of expressing a truth as old as
man himself.
In the Century Magazine for March
there appears under the title of an old
maids philosophy some of the most
beautiful and striking passages. Take
for example this one on Sorrow"
THE only sorrow worth anything in
this world is the sorrow for others,
and sorrow for others means helping
others, not hugging our woes to our
selves. For l believe that the really
brave and the really great make us
forget their scars, or the records Of
their hurts and wounds"
Hon. George Moore the novelist, has
recently met with a very painful acct
dent near his home which promises to
incapacitate him for literary work for
many months to come. Strange to say,
the accident occurred on the after
noon when he had finished 4. his new
work entitled The Untitled Field"
This novel is announced for publica-
ton in the early spring, and it is to-
be hoped that its sales will cheer Mr..
Moore while confined at home unable
to work.
The home of the well known author
and poet, Clinton Dangerfied, al
though not generally known, is on
Lookout mountain in Tennessee. 1t is
literally in the heart of the woods.
Originally intended for summer place
only, the family found the climate so
superb that they decided to remain
there the year round. The authors
only neighbors are the mountaineers,
some of whom are possessed of exceed
ingly primitive ways. The relations,
however, between Dangerfield and
these primitive people are exceeding
ly happy. At the first the mountain
GERS regarded the newcomers with
suspicion, but they soon announced to
their friends and mountaineer neigh
bors them thar folks KANT help Their
queer idees;" though one man did as
sure his neighbor that ANY set of peo-
pie crazy enough to plant a blackberry
patch with weeds full of EN- already
was bound to bust up before long!"
AS the time for busting up was de-
layed longer and longer the confidence
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
THE MASTER OF WARLOCK,
BY George Gary Eggleston.

fore you one of the good old-time
Southern mammies with her bless
your soul, honey" and "dat's right,
my chile" His picture of the darkey
Sam is especially good, bringing out
in striking relief the touching devo-
ton of the negro for his master and
his physical welfare.
None of the present day stories have
any remarkable merit as to the plot,
for you can easily forecast the end of
the story, and this one is no exception
to the rule. The plot hinges on one of
the typical family feuds of Virginia,
which for a time separates two ardent
lovers; but when the hero goes 10 war
the heroine suffers many hardships and
adventures TO serve him. finally nurs-
ing him back 10 health and strength.
Altogether. there Is enclosed within
the pages of this novel a purity OF
sentiment and fascination as 10 style,
which il quite Understandable in words
and which can only be understood and
appreciated after peruEal Of the work.
0Lothr0p Publishing Company. Boston,
Mass 3Lb0) May CARTRIDGE.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

Mr. Eggleston is deservedly winning
a place in the world of the novelist,
of which anyone might be proud and
many. no doubt, envy. His latest pro-
ductlon, THE Master Of Warlock." is
the most charming and delightfully."-
written romance / have ever read. In
deed, there is more in IT than l have
discovered in a novel for long time.
The heroine Is fine character and
not a bit overdrawn, but perfect pic
ture of the true Southern woman. There
is more Of history in regard 70 the war,
and II is better and more correctly told
than any novel OF recent years-and
withal so charmingly worked into the
story. Mr.. Eggleston IL particularly
good in the delineation OF the character
Of the Southern darkey. What he
makes them DO. and the way they DO
a. what he makes them say, and the
way they say n. together with the
spelling and punctuation given the ne
gro dialect, ~ ~ true 20 the reality
that you can easily think you have be-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
TREND OF THOUGHTS
ALONG PATHS LITERARY.

The announcements concerning the
early spring books are already making
their appearance and a gratifying fact
worthy of note concerning these an
nouncements is that they show that
the spring productions will be of a less
frivolous nature than the mass of
books issued late in the fall. Many BIZ
osraphies of present and ancient no
tables, together with histories and
novels of a more sedate kind, promise
for the reading public a rare treat
during the early spring months
one of the amusing literary echoes
for the past week is found in a. stray
editorial here and there, begun by
similar editorial in a Boston paper. as
TO whether or not this literary center
is losing its grip upon the literary cir
cles of the country. or course the
Boston literary papers deny the fact
most strenuousy. and yet the article
which first appeared on the subject in
a Boston daily showed some very con-
elusive arguments in favor of believing
that Bostons old time supremacy is
on the wane. A Chicago writer claims
that for a number OF years the liter
airy center of the country has been
drifting southwesterly. If this be the
case, 1t will eventually place the South
land In the position of Americas lit
erary Mecca state of affairs which
was pointed out as a possibility in an
article on this page last week.
The week has been rather a dull one
and the only book which has attract
ed particular notice is a new novel on
Christian Science. The author of the
book is not given; a fact which speaks
badly for the book, as we'll a for its
author. The day of hiding behind a
nom-de- plume or failure to use any
signature, has long since passed;
writer to-day, If he or she desires the
commentator of the public for the
message they have to bring. must
come out bravely and shoulder the re-
sponsibility. The sentiment in favor
of this method has grown so strongly
within the past few years that not
And 1t is good that this is so; for in
this day of irresponsible publishers,
many a book which would have been
published under an assumed title is
withheld rather than have the author
subjected to the criticisms sure to fol-
low. Thus the sentiment has proved
a safeguard for the public.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
BY HERBERT BREWSTER.

one of the best short story writers in
this country. So strong is his convic-
ton that the short story volume has
had its day, that hereafter he will
publish no books except long stories,
although his forthcoming volume is
almost a contradiction of this state
ment. Sinful Peck, is the title of the
volume which will be shortly issued
over Mr.. Robertson's name. AS origl-
nally conceived, the contents of this
book We're a collection of short stories
which had one principal character,
Sinful Peck. Mr. Robertson, however,
revised the matter in such a way that
it makes a continuous story. The
book is dedicated as follows:
ITO Arthur Henry, the Skipper of
the Isle O. Quirk, whom l hailed in
the darkness and who sat by me
through the night"
The dedication itself contains a story
with the personal element behind it
which Is of more than usual interest.
Arthur Henry will be recalled as the
author of Gan Island Cabin" a story
of his discovery and life on a little ISL
and in the upper end of Long Island
sound. Robertson happened to read
Henry's book, and although he was
not at that time acquainted with him,
lie wrote expressing his appreciation of
his story. AS a result the two fell into
considerable correspondence and later
on Robertson was persuaded TO spend
several weeks on Henry's island. The
rest and recreation was just what
Robertson needed, for at the time of
going there he was OH the point of
nervous break down.
The announcement Of a new book by
Mary McLane is an exciting bit of
news, since this young woman has been
the subject of much talk during the past
year and half. Miss McLanes ways
in New York were most peculiar. 1t is
told of her that on one of her visits
to a publishing house she walked into
the office of the chief editor of one of
the magazines, and pulling out a sill
yer half-dollar demanded that the edi-
tor match half-dollars with her. The
editor entered into the spirit of the
thing and in three or four minutes had
won some twenty dollars from Miss
McLane. Whereupon the young wom-
an refused to pay. and began at once to
talk of something else. 1t will be in
teresting to note what form her ideas
will take now that she has Travelled
thousands of miles away from Butte
and seen a good deal of the world since
writing her Confessions.
The usual crop of serious books has
not been forthcoming so far this year
AS rule, the months of January and
February are devoted by the publish
ers TO the bringing out of their most
serious books Of the year. II is SAFE
to assert that more works on religion
and philosophy are issued during these
two months than during the balance Of
the year.
Prominent among the serious books Of
serious value published already this
year is Prof. WOodburn's The Aneri-
can Republic" u is more than a po-
litical history Of the United States. and
more than n text book on civil govern
Tnent. n ~ not too much 10 say that
this volume Of four hundred pages oils
In satisfactory manner. the great need
Of something between high school text
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
By Edward Young Clarke, Jr.

BY Edward Young Clarke, Jr.
For period of ten years or more
english literature has suffered mater
tally from a season of weakness and
inertia; and to Englishmen and low
ers of the literature of the English it
has been a TIME filed with the most
intense encouragement. Some years
ago a steady depression became no.
ticeable, both in quantity and quality,
which in q short time increased and
spread so rapidly and alarmingly that
The whole field of English literature
soon felt its blighting touch. The
causes leading up to this most regret
table state of affairs became the sub
lect of universal discussion, but even
the best and ablest authorities failed
utterly to find a solution of the prob
lem. Conditions had never been more
favorable or writers more numerous:
it seems that a spell of languor had
gradually swept across the whole field
of English literary endeavor.
This state of affairs worked disas-
trously upon the temper of the Eng
Ash reading world, who began to for
sake the reading of English produce
tions for those of other nations. During
this crucial period American produc-
tons gained steadily in popularity and
American publishing houses opened
large branch establishments in Eng
land. But within the last two years it
has been evident that a new era was
daWning. Expensive art books have
made their appearance, whose con-
tents denoted years of preparation; and
these books have been cordially re-
oeived by the reading public. Many
good and encouraging signs of an
awakening have put in their appear
ance and the columns of the English
literary presses are filled with new
life.
George w. Smalley has recently
written about some of his personal re-
collections of English men of letters
and in the "RecOllections' he has taken
occasion to call attention to the many
encouraging signs of an unprecedented
English literary revival. His work is
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.
How Dr. Eastman Secures His Indian the
Short Story VoIumeMary McLanes New

DR.. Charles A. Eastman, the full
blooded Sioux Indian, who recently
published the delightful volume, I'm
dian Boyhood," has recently concluded
a visit to the East, made partly for
the purpose of holding a conference
with President Roosevelt, and partly
to talk over with his publishers the
getting out of a volume on Indian
Folk Lore" At the present time DR..
Eastman holds an important govern
ment position in South Dakota, and
some of his friends loosely refer to
him as the future political boss of
that state. AS a matter of fact the
Indians are becoming more and more
independent each year, and nat
urally they are becoming
power in a civilized way DR..
Eastman is a great favorite of his
people. DR.. Eastman. however. does
not look forward to a political life with
as much pleasure as to his future lit
erary work For many years he has
been collecting and writing down the
old Sioux legends, and these he ex-
poets to bring out in book form be-
fore very long now. DR.. Eastman, of
course, knows a great many of the
Sioux legends himself.
'If / were not an Indian" said DR..
Eastman during his visit in New York,
81 feel sure 1 could not secure the
legends 1 do not know. The difficulty
about the white man getting these
legends is this: he asks the Indians
questions about them. and at once all
the Indian reserve and reticence comes
to the surface. The Indian will not
tell what he knows about the matter
if he is questioned. The white man
who is anxious to collect this Indian
lore goes among the Indians. offers
one S. and then begins to ply him
with questions. The Indian is anxious
to give So worth, but is not anxious to
tell what he knows about the legends.
The result is the white man gets hold
of considerable that is of no use at
all"
DR.. Eastman then explained how he
secured the true legends which he was
not entirely familiar with himself. He
would go into an Indian council and
sit quietly without saying a word for
a long time. Then he would begin to
tell one of these legends as he knew
it. The instant he came to a doubt
full point and hesitated or made a
statement which was not entirely accu-
rate. another Indian would gravely in
terrupt him and take up the story,
giving the right version. If this In
dian made a mistake still another one
would interrupt and go on with the
story. 1t took a great deal of patient
work. but DR.. Eastman was equal to
that. and in this manner has collected
some of the most interesting and bith-
erto inaccessible Indian legends.
Morgan Robertson, the well known
sea story writer, is a confirmed enemy
of the short story volume. He says the
publisher may make money on book
of short stories, but in ninety-nine
cases out Of hundred the author does
not Mr.. Robertson's contention Is cu-
riously borne out by the facts in his
own case. None Of the volumes OF
short st0rieF which he has published
has been at all profitable, yet he IL
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

books and Mr.. Bryces THE American
Commonwealth" Prof. WOODBURY.
who holds chair in Indiana University,
makes haste to grant every possible
credit to Mr.. Bryce not only for much
inspiration in his teaching, but for val
liable helps in the preparation of his
written work.
Another worthy work is Mr.. ]. C.
Fernald's compilation of what he calls
Scientific Side-Lights." Mr.. FernaId
seems to aim at the getting together
OF volumes which shall be helpful to
writer's. His work on the Standard
Dictionary was important and from
that connection grew his volume of
Antonyms. 1t is to be feared that this
collection of words has not been an
preciated by struggling authors as It
should be. The work gives the an
tonym, the opposite word, for every
important word in our language.
What writer has not struggled in vain
10 md the word he wants and has
been able to think only of some word
Of an entirely opposed meaning? The
Scientific Side-Lights is another kind
OF assistance. On almost every possi-
BILE scientific subject, Mr.. Fernald has
made extracts from the best authori-
ties and from these brief paragra phs
it is possible to get a sort of concen-
trated knowledge of the matter. A
voluminous index makes it easy to
look up anything in the line of scien-
tihc subjects.
Wallace Irwin, author of Love
Sonnets OF HoodIum" and THE Ru-
hiyat Of Omar Khayyam, Jr.," is still
in his early twenties. The way he came
To write the Love Sonnets is interest
ing. Irwin was at the time a student
at the Leland-Stanford, Jr, Univer-
sity. One day he was reprimanded by
the faculty committee, known among
the student body as the fire depart
ment, and after his painful interview
the young man strolled out on the
campus. sat down in the shade and
began to scribble. In short time he
had expressed his feelings in the son.
net which begins,
Il sometimes think that | am not SO
warm"
The verse was published later on in
one of the college papers and Gellett
Burgess happened to see it, Before
long he had persuaded Irwin to write
more of the sonnets and when the
young man thought considerably over
the matter. he decided on the Hood
lum Love Sonnets.
Until recently Mr. Irwin was on the
editorial staff of the Overland Month
~. He gave up the position to become
a free lance. To-day he enjoys the
reputation Of being the best writer of
slang verse in the country.
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of the people grew in the new people
with queer idees," until now a fast
and binding tie exists between the
author and bis mountain neighbors.
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4 safeguard for the public.