The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-05
By HERBERT BREWSTER.

,larence S. barrow the well-known
liver who conducted the case for the
.,i0ers in the recent series of hearings
before the Coal Commission, is about
=, make an appearance in the book
,,orId as an author. During the past
,.,,r Mr.. barrow has written a number
If short stories which he hopes to
bring out in volume before long. The
stories were all written with a .pur-
rose-most of them are about poor
children. realistic stories of real life"
the author calls them.
This is not, however, Mr.. Darrow's
first venture in writing for the general
nublic. Some time ago he wrote a num-
her of mastery essays on Tolstoi,
Burns and other we'll known writer's
who were at the same time men of the
common people. Indeed, in all of
his work, Mr.. Darrows sympathies
lead him into this sort of expression
the glorification or uplifting of the
moor of the under class. His enemies
call him an anarchist, a socialist,
revolutionist, to all of which the law
ver-author agrees. His friends, how
ever tell you to read his essay on the
doctrine of non resistance.
In his Persian Pearl and Other Es-
saws" the volume of essays already re-
farred to, Mr.. Darrow has treated of
omar Kayyam, Walt Whitman, Burns
and other well-known literary charac-
ters from the point of view of a social
ist vet not entirely so. His idea is to
show that these men were striving for
the brotherhood of man and the kim
ship of all breathing things" Mr..
Darrow's opinion of Whitman is
worth quoting:
when the world looks back to the
doubt and confusion of to-day, Walt
Whitman will stand alone, the great
est truest noblest prophet of the age,
man untainted by artificial life and
urmoved by the false standards of his
time"
Mr.. barrow is an out-and-out realist
Il doubt" said he the other day.
whether any of the regular magazines
would print any of my stuff l try to
write with and for purpose. 1 be-
Iieve a writer should write the truth
and all of it."
AS to his philosophy of life, proba-
bly, fair expression of it may be had
in his essay on Tolstof.
well may Tolstoi say, that we must
luxury of to-day, to the patient, simple
poor. Well may he turn from his dis
ciples, as another reformer ages since.
from the closed doors of the great and
the barred temples of the God of Hosts,
to the peasants, the fishermen, the
publicans, the sinners, and the wander
ing, homeless Magdalens.
Leo Tolstoi has the brain to see and
the strength to do Amid the universal
clamor of the crowd he has raised his
voice for justice and for right and his
strong words and brave message will
be borne by other tongues, and upheld
by other lives until righteousness shall
rule upon the earth. In that day no
man will compel the service of his fell
bowman, but each will gladly 1lbor for
the whole, moved by the righteous
power of love. The great artists will
paint no more to adorn the mansions
of the rich, but earning his right to live
by the labor of his hands and knowing
humanity as he knows himself, will
draw his inspirations from the great
eternal source of life and art, and
dream such dreams and do such work
as the world has never known. Then
art will become part of daily life,
and daily life a part of art. To make
one pair of shoes for weary feet Will
be as worthy in the sight of man as
to write an epic poem, or compose a
great as to paint the brightest hues
that the sunset ever wrought; and to
cool one parched tongue or hold out
one hand to guide your fellow mortal
through the dark, more than all the
sermons ever preached by man."
OF one thing we may be sure, Mr..
Darrow is the biggest man in Chicago,
so far as working people are concerned,
and since his connection with the Coal
Commission, working people all over
the country regard him as one of their
greatest heroes: His work in writing
for the general public is well worth
watching.
So freely has President Roosevelt
contributed to the success of various
books he likes by commencing them
in public, that it has become a matter
of great pride to a publisher who Sc
cures this high authoritys approval.
1t is not at all likely that the Presi-
dent has thought of the far-reaching
effect of such communication or of the
injustice he does to publishers whose
books he does not find time to read,
but as a literary log roller, he is
very strenuous success. Last summer
he CHANGED to read 1.-THE Simple Life"
and in his speeches he told the public
how much he enjoyed it. If we add
simply here that eight editions OF the
book have been sold since, we nave
drawn enough conclusion. Recently
the President commented 1.-The Woman
Who Tolls" by Mrs. and Miss Van
Worst, and as result the book is, one
Of the good sellers. 1t happens that 1t
was on this occasion that the aglta-
ton on race suicide was started. This
latter fact has given the book even