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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

father of the only Christian family in the
colony is the holder of the only salaried
position, clerk of the schools. They ALL or
nearly all, believe in non-resistance. and
when after the assassination of President
Mckinley a patriotic league melted by the
name anarchy, was organized in Tacoma
to ''clean out the hell hole on the sound"
and they learned that 800 men were coming
to destroy the place, they resolved to meet
the invading party at the landing and IN
vite them TO their homes, and then, If they
wished to kill them, to submit as calmly
they could.
One man, an old Confederate soldier
went up to Tacoma, secured the ear of
the league, and in thirty minutes the league
disbanded. OF course, it was good thing
that this anarchiStic uprising against an
archy was thus nipped in the bud, still
one cannot help feeling some curiosity to
know whether. If the experiment had gone
a little further it would have WORKED q. out out
history Of the invasion OF non-reslstant
people by an army which had to retire dis
comfited because the could not conquer
a people who would not fight
They frankly acknowledge that their
theory of individual liberty, limited only
by the desire not to injure ones neignborS,
is not suited for general adoption until a
and self-control is attained, but they hope
to be able to furnish a living example of
the possibility of perfect liberty of thought
and action and the coincident existence
of happiness and prosperity. As they are
opposed to law and force of all kinds, they
are, of course, believers in the theory or
free love. Yet this is said not TO have re-
suited so far in any lewdness or laxity of
morals and none of the married couples
have shown a disposition to part company
In favor of other partners
On the whole the colony makes a very
good impression on the visitor on account
of the neatness and thrift apparent In the
homes and the kindness and hospitality
of its people.
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bookseller knows nothing about books, and
Is not an interesting companion. Book
shops we are told. ought to be kept by
men of culture and such shops ought TO
afford a meeting place for book lovers. The
idea is not a bad one. but it might be also
adapted to the second hand bookstails
which are still to be found In certain
streets If kept by intelligent book lovers.
these stalls might once more become what
they were a hundred years ago-places
where old gentlemen in sDectacles pored
over rare books while pickpockets relieved
them of their handkerchiefs and purses.
Alas. the modern second hand bookstall
is kept by a man who knows little more
about books than that other things being
equal. heavy book ought to be priced
higher than light book. I am afraid that
"Bookshops, Limited is an attempt to take
the retail book trade back to the days OF
DR.. Johnson. IL is commendable effort
in the eyes OF those who love everything
that is old. but il is doubtful IL IL will
strike the fancy of the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28

potent that even the nominally all-powerful
Gar cannot single-handed carry out the
reforms he is known to favor.
The most literary monarch in Europe is
without doubt the young Victor Emmanuel
OF Italy. He knows English, French and
German equally as well as his native lam
guage and has even a reading acquaintance
with that very difficult language, Russian.
He spends at least three hours every day
in his study, busy with current literature
of every kind. He is said to prefer the
monthly reviews to daily journals; but,
however this may be, it is quite certain
that no monarch alive keeps himself more
thoroughly posted in all questions of the
day.
lsh visitors by his intimate acquaintance
with the intricacies of their party politics
and social questions, in which he is better
read than many members of the British
Parliament.
King Oscar of Sweden is another King
who may be classed among the best-read of
royalties. He always finds time to read the
papers of his own kingdom without resort
ing to the help of others, but for those of
other countries he relies mainly on clip
pings. Not only does he read the papers,
but there are three Stockholm journals
tributors. He writes, of course, under a.
nom de plume. but his articles are ex-
tremely able and well worthy of so talented
a man.
Newspaper clipping bureaus, of which
istence, employing thousands of people,
find many patrons among royalty His
Majesty King Edward VII is said to sub
scribe to two and to receive from them
the King. like any other English gentleman.
is also known to read his papers first hand.
King Christian of Denmark adopts the
plan of reading a different paper each day
Of the week. Thus. he says, he gets at
everybody's ideas. Certainly no monarch is
better in touch with his people. The King
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
A YIDDIsH sHYLOCK.
A New York jew Takes the Famous
Part with Success.
New York Evening Posi-.


The Yiddish-speaking and admirably
made-up Shylock who came forth last night
at the American Theater, Jacob p. Adler,
an actor who has long been acclaimed by
not the superior of saIvini or Edwin Booth,
was an extraordinarily picturesque figure.
Jew whose subtle suggestion OF venomous
craft at once captured the audience. The
other among English-speaking playgoers
that Mr.. Adler's Shylock was an overstren-
uous person, whose explosions OF rage
shook the stage, who tore passion to tat
tiers and made his points by exaygerating
to grotesqueness all the, traditional bust
ness OF the part. Nothing can be further
the part is played without rant or exag-
geration. There Is no attempt TO make
points with the gallery, no shouting or
screaming, no insistence upon the melodra-
matte possibilities Of the trial scene. IL is
a dignifed and competent piece OF work
that Will interest even those who know
what our best actors have made OF Shy
lock. If not greater acting, IL offers per-
haps more of the real Jew than greater ac-
tors have given US, for IL Is the work OF a
man who has had the racial type always
before him.
Compared with shyIock as portrayed by
our most noted actors I'm the last thirty
years. Mr.. Adlers presentation suggests
less ferocity and more OF the rat I'm a cor
ner, more Of the mock humility and less Of
the savage passion that breaks through the
veneer of the habitual abasement Only in
the final scene. when the last blow has
fallen and his cup OF woe Is full. does this
Shylock allow his rage 20 find vent and his
contempt for court and judges TO show
forth. He differs widely here from the In
depreciation which shows Shylock stagger-
ing from the courtroom a crushed and
somewhat pathetic figure. Mr.. Adler drops
the mask of humility when all II lost. and
after long defiant stare OF hatred upon
court and spectators he stalks out. At all
other times he is more the whipped jackal
than the wolf to which Gratiano hkens him.
IL Is a sober performance throughout,
neither demonic nor heroic, but certainly
Hebraic.
/, Mr.. Adler is man Of good presence and
perfectly at home upon the stage The
Yiddish dialect he uses Is so near the Ger
man that any one acquainted with that
tongue need not lose word. even In a less
familiar part The supporting company
last night played I'm English. but seemed to
feel that their efforts were not OF much ac-
count-which was true. The audience came
solely to see Shylock and had small pa
thence with anybody else.
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New York Tribune.
1t is coming at last the book which any
one might have prophesied- 1t is to be
called ''Stevensoniana, and ii is to be filed
with articles about the romancer. for which
the compiler has been delving ''only in the
forgotten pages of English and American
periodicals. and in books by writers of
eminence not entirely devoted to Steven
SON." We suppose it foreshadows another
volume drawn from the writer's who have
written about the writers who have written
about Stevenson. But apparently there are
people who will be made happy by this
compilation. One English journalist has
taken the trouble to reckon up the quota
tons and illusions of his contemporaries
in a single week, and he has found that
they have all gone to Stevenson for their
pregnant and felcitous sentences. He
adds that lit is a case of Stevenson first
bad second, and Shakespeare is only quoted
three times" Assuredy there is no danger
of our being allowed to forget him. A
Scotch sheriff has just published an article
on Stevenson as an advocate. He remem-
bers that when warned against allowing his
practice to injure his health Stevenson re-
piled. Man, / got guinea last week; wait
till you. an idle dog like you. see what III
will, of course, be cherished in ten million
hearts Mr.. Sidney Colvin. 1t appears. has
been engaged to marry Miss Sitweil, TO
whom many of Stevenson's letters were adj
dressed. Ergo, according to one ecstatic
commentator. the marriage has speciai IN
terest for Stevensoniansi' The letters writ
ten by Stevenson's mother to her sister,
when she was cruising with her son among
the islands OF the Pacific, are to be pub
lished in book called From Saranac to
Marquesas." And so on, and so on.
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what "A True scholar Is.

David Starr Jordan, in July Atlantic.
The scholar in the true sense is the man
or woman for whom the schools have done
their best The scholar knows some one
thing thoroughly, and can carry his knowl-
edge into action. With this. he must have
such knowledge of related subjects and of
human life as will throw this special knowl-
edge into proper perspective. Anything less
than this Is not scholarship. The man with
knowledge and no perspective is a crank,
disturber of the peace, who needs a guard
ian to make his knowledge useful. The man
who has common sense, but no special
training, may be a fair citizen, but he can
exert little influence that makes for prog
reSs. There may be a wisdom not of books
but Ii can be won by no easy process. To
gain wisdom or skill, in school or out, is
education. To do anything well requires
special knowledge, and this is scholarship
whether attained in the university or in the
school of life. 1t is the man who knows
that has the right to speak.
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Herbert Bashford, in July Atlantic.
The West is rich in literary material.
There are mountain ranges comparatively
UNEMPLOYED which aboriginal tradition wells
in haunting mystery. The struggles, trials,
and heroism of the early pioneers have
scarcely been touched upon. and what
dramatic strength and picturesqueness is
contained IN this old-time life of the bor-
derl And there exists to-day throughout
the length and breadth of the Pacific coast
a peculiarly fascinating freedom not easily
comprehended by those VINO have known
nothing but the restraints Of an older and
more conventional civilization. This, L
have attempted to show, will leave its i'm
press upon the future literary production
of the region. AS the lands of the olive
and the vine have figured prominently IN
the history of old world letters, ii is
not unreasonable to expect that California,
with it's tropical sun and gorgeous color
ing, will add luSter to the literature of
America. Perhaps L have dwelt too strong
ly upon scenic grandeur a factor in lit
erary growth, but vast forests, icy noun
tains, sombre canyons and beetling cliffs
must stimulate the imaginative powers and
lead TO creative effort What has been ac-
complished thus far by the writer's men,
toned at least offers glorious promise of
future achievement-of work, If | may be
so bold as TO prophesy, that shall draw it's
freshness and color from CALIFORNIA; sun
clad hills, and its strength and beauty from
the white radiance of her eternal peaks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
Writer'S Thought Cramp.

SeweH Ford, in the Reader for July.
If the fiction writer has his delicious
moments, when he tastes the joys which
come with the excitement of creative COM
positions-and these he undoubtedly has
also he knows distressing periods of mental
apathy.
He has been working away at top speed
full of gladness in that subtle fabric which
his pen weaves in the warp and wool of
paper and ink. His head is packed with
inspired ideas, like a gift box from the
gods His hopes ride high. His ambitions
scrape the clouds.
Then something happens. 1t Is not a
snap, break, crash-nothing so tangible
IL is just a ceasing. Abruptly, unexpected
ly, all his fine thoughts vanish. No longer
is life a country of majestic, white-robed
heights and alluring purple-toned valleys.
All is fiat and gray and bleak.
Just about now, if the writer only knew
It, Is a most excellent time to go fishing
At last baffied. discouraged. heartsick
he sits with his head I'm his hands, con-
templating with foolish. self-pity the melan-
choly spectacle of himself.
But. like drought and flood war and
pestilence and all other ills great and small,
II passes. And he knows not how or when
IL goes. Days after he wakes up to find
himself, pen in hand, hard at work again.
OF its own accord, apparently, the machine
has set itself i'm motion.
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The Age We Live In.

John G.. Whittier. Published for the first
time in The Outlook Of April A, 1903.
Nothing is clearer to my mind than the
fact that the world is growing better. 1t is
sweeter, tenderer; there is more love in it.
A worthy deacon of the old time in New
England once described a brother in the
church as very pious man Godward, but
a rather hard one MAYNARD. 1t cannot be
denied that very satisfactory steps in the
latter direction had been taken in the CEN
tury now drawing to its close. Our age
is tolerant regards creed and dogma,
and practically recognizing the brother
hood of the race; it is quick and generous
in its sympathies whenever and wherever
a cry of suffering is heard 1t cannot look
minish their evil. 1t has abolished slavery;
it is lifting woman to an equality with man
before the law.
Our criminal codes no longer embody the
maxim of IAN eye for an eye and a tooth
for a TOOTH" but have regard not only to
the safety Of the community, but also to
the well-being of the criminal. All the
more for this amiable tenderness do we
need the counterpoise of a strong sense of
justice. All the more for the sweet humani-
ties and Christian liberalism which are
drawing men nearer to each other and in
creasing the sum of social influence, we
need the bracing atmosphere of the old
moralites.
1t is we'll for us that we have learned to
listen to the persuasions of the Beatitudes
but there are crises in all lives which re-
quire the emphatic Thou shalt not" of the
Decalogue.
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THEIR PRIVATE PAPERS.
Kings and Queens Get Their News in
an Abridged Form.

London Tit-bits.
Kings and Queens have of course, their
preferences in the way of newspapers just
like any other individuals. But as the mon
archs of modern civilized countries are
among the busiest people on earth it is
but seldom that any of them can ever afford
the time to sit down and comfortably
peruse the columns of any journal.
1t is the present emperor of Austria who
may be said to be responsible for the meth
cd by which most European monarchs abb
sorb the news of the day. Rather more
than thirty years ago he gave orders that a
private newspaper should be supplied to
him every morning.
This journal is made up of extracts from
all the leading morning journals of Aus
tria. Each important article is carefully
condensed by a competent writer, and the
result written out on small square sheets,
which are slipped into binding cover and
laid upon his Majestys breakfast table.
The Emperor has given the strictest d.
rections that nothing which concerns him
personally. whether disagreeable or other
wise, shall be omitted, and Ii is said that
he occasionally orders in bundle of fresh
newspapers in order to be sure that his or
ders are not disobeyed.
In a more or less modified form this is
the way in which nearly all reigning royal
ties read the news. The German Kaiser,
one of the busiest men alive, has a court
officer with a staff under him whose sole
duty is TO cut out all items of news which
may interest the royal eye and submit them
neatly pasted up in a scrap book each
morning. These books are kept and filed
away, and should eventually prove a valu-
able record of the history of a stirring
reign.
In June last the Car created something
like CONSERVATION in official circles by CALI
ing together to a conference two hundred
of the most educated men in Russia. This
act was the outcome of his Majesty's thirst
for news. Up to quite recently Russian
rulers had been content to receive their
news secondhand through official channels.
Naturally, criticisms and other possibly I'M
pleasant articles have been conspicuous by
their absence. But such a mode of pro-
cedure failed to satisfy the present Car.
A year or two ago he privately ordered to
be sent to him copies of Russian papers rep
resenting every shade of opinion. He even
included Anarchist journals, such as the
"Kolokol'' (or the "Bell'), which is pub
lished in Geneva by a man named Grekoff.
Everything which bore upon Russian social
questions of the day the Car eagerly alb
sorbed, and extracts were entered in his
private diary.
One result of this proceeding has already
been mentioned. Other things may happen
before long. but ii must be remembered
that the official ring on Russia is so omni-
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Mr.. Howells has left New York city for
his summer home at Kitty Point, Me-, where
he will remain until late in the fall. He is
at present engaged upon a new book.
Prof George p. Garrison brings out the
interesting fact in his history of Texas,
just published, that the first official name
for the region which now comprises the
Lone Star State was Nuevas Fiipinas, or
New Philippines.
Many modern men of letters are interested
in athletics. Long ago, it is recalled, Mr..
George Meredith used to insist upon the
necessity for physical exercise, but the
cause of one of his breakdOwns in health is
supposed TO have been a too earnest devo-
tion TO Indian clubs.
Anthony Hope Hawkins, the English au-
thor known as Anthony Hope, is to be mar
ried in London to Miss Elizabeth Shell
don, of New York 1t is said Miss Sheldon
logues," and that Mr.. Hawkins became ac-
quainted with her some time after those
delightful sketches were written.
Mr.. George Meredith, the eminent novel;
list, is as alert and witty in his casual talk
as he is in his fiction. Not long ago, in con-
versation with friend, Mr.. Meredith was
asked his opinion of a certain obnoxious
borhood. HE seems to me-" replied the au-
thor of Diana of the Crossways." Ito be
one of the least of Gods mercies."
The Tribune says: There is one woman
poet in New York who will read proof care
fully until the edge of a recent error wears
off. She spent two days on touching poem,
the pivotal line Of which read:
My soul is lighthouse keeper
When the printer finished with it the line
read:
MY soul is a light housekeeper.'
Ibsen has given up reading newspapers or
books; he writes no letters, and does no
literary work. He seldom sees any one ex-
cept his servant and masseur. He never
leaves the house at Copenhagen, but is able
to move about In 1t with the aid of two
canes. Five years ago he was still quite
active, and regular Kant in his hab-
its. Every day he took the same walk, stop
ped before the clock on the university
building to regulate his watch, and then
read newspapers in the Grand Cafe.
The latest yarn about a bookseller with
ideas of his own concerns one who, in ad-
vising a purchaser as to some new novels,
shook his head over Mr.. Maurice Hewletts
Richard Yea-and-Nay," saying, eff for
family reading it might be as we'll to leave
1T out. So, If you will excuse me-some
think 1t risk to allow young ladies to 90
into the Middle Ages. OF course, they pick
up lot of free and easy history, but is ii
English history? Now, with Harrison
Ainsworth IL is all safe facts and dates"
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Prof.. A. E. Hancock, in Bookloyer's Maya.
zine.
Bret Harte deserved his great reputation.
He was not. in the large sense, an over
whelming genius. He was an artist who,
like Cellini or Teniers or Meissonier.
wrought exquisitely and perfectly within
certain definite bounds. Everybody, even
Max Nordau with his pessimistic view of
all things modern. will admit that he is an
absolute master OF the short story and that
MS tales OF the mining camps will live as
long as men are interested in the early his
tory OF the Golden Gate.
As an artist, within his limitations. he
mas again and again touched the highest
reaches OF imaginative creation. 1t may all
pe true that his plots are melodramatic.
he cannot sustain himself for long con-
tinuous effort; but, In spite of these things,
ne does see life in the broad Wilderness
or ITS double aspect. The profoundest
creators are all face TO face with the fact
and pathos- Only a shift in the point of
view Is needed 70 change the smiles into
tears. He. therefore. is the greatest mas
Ter or the mystery OF human nature who
can see his characters in that puzzIing
compiexity which calls at once for merri-
this conception OF life. and so had Cervantes
when he sent his don Quixote'-the buff
foon and the hero In one-of on his ludi-
crous quest. And Bret Harte. In his minor
way. had the same feeling that IL was only
the standpoint which made life divertingly
comic or pitiabIy tragic. The instances of
this are almost numerous as his stories.
50. we may say that while Bret Harte
occupies unique position the magma
tive historian OF the Argunauts and the