The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

were Wiling to do much IN order TO keep
it embarrassed and enfeebled Congress
then, and for many years after, was de-
scribed by John Adams as mot legisla-
tive Assembly, nor representative assem-
bly,, but only a diplomatic assembly," No
central authority existed in America. The
local Governments of the separate prov
inces We're responsible for the ordinary
course of civil administration, and those
Governments, SO far from being legally
and duly constituted, were not constituted
at ALL
Senator Beverage, of Indiana. is re-
markable man. He "splurged' good
deal when he first entered the Senate.
but he has shown himself to be a pub
lcist of mark and elocuence. He is no
sceptic or spouter of hysterical sophisisms
and barefaced nonsense under the guise
of philosophy. In one of his recent pub
lished articles on Americans of Today
and Tomorrow" he says that I'VE
Americans are profoundly religious peo-
pie. We can not help it. 1t springs, like
all other fundamental characteristics, out
out the elements of our being and our
man." They are not blatant infidels and
hostile critics of Gods Book. and in that
sense they are profoundly religious" But
that does not prove that they are truly
consecrated and spiritually minded Chris
tians. We all know the power of formal
ism and retualistic worship. But Ameri-
cans can be said. and to their credit. to
be on the side of Bible Christianity in
contra-distinction to >Ingersolism and New
England burlesques of the truth of God.
and genuine revealed religion Here is a
good and true passage from Senator Bev-
erage:
If morals do not grow out of religion,
they are nothing but conveniences, like
clothing or windows or freplaces or
knives and forks-nothing but rules of
prudence, like keeping ones feet dry or
staying off the railroad track when the
whistle OF the approaching engine blows.
But put the religious sentiment into this
same code of morals and they become a
part of your being, like the blood to the
body. With practical morals man will
do a certain thing refrain from doing
certain thing because the effect is ad-
vantageous or the reverse; with religious
morals a man will do the same thing or
refuse to do another thing because he
must-because 1t is right. He has taken
definite hold of the hand of some power
higher than the God of Gain and Loss.
Henceforth his life and career become
worth while
Those DESTROYS of a very good edition
of Shakespeare will find it in Macmillan
and Company's "Eversley Edition. 1t is
thoroughly edited by DR.. c. H. Hereford,
Professor of English Literature at the
University OF Wales. In text, in annota-
lions and commentary, it can be accepted
as the latest product of the best Shapes
pearean scholarship. The eleventh volume
is Mr.. Hamilton Wright Mabie's bio
graphy of Shakespeare the Man." uni
form IN binding, type page, etc, with the
Works. The type is clear and beauti-
full, and the binding handsome red In
terlaken cloth This is late. and up-to-
date. There are 153 prints. It's price is
SIS There are several other new editions
OF the greatest poet and genius of the
world, in all time. The best edition of
American Production general, ready use
is Richard Grant Whites larger edition.
His notes are scholarly, helpful, judicious,
brief. His three volume edition is CAPT.
tai, handy and most useful. l use it con-
stantly as working edition.
Harper and Brothers have new, COM
plete, excellently illustrated edition Of
William Makepeace Thackeray's works,
one of the worlds foremost novelists and
satirists, the best master of style of any
fictive author whatever. It has 800 illus
trations, and the edition is pronounced to
be beautiful. The price is $25. The type
is clear, and the paper of the best quality.
Another desirable edition of Shakespeare
is known as the Temple School of Shakes
peare.' 1t is edited by Oliphant Smea-
ton, and is Illustrated. and with literary
notes. 1t has just begun to be published,
but one volume containing but one play
is out, ''The Tempest master piece CT
genius. Another interesting announce
ment is the Mermaid Series" in many
volumes, containing some of the best
plays of the old dramatic writer's Of
Shakespearean times. The old text is pur-
sued. The volumes ready are Marlowe,
Otway, Congreve, and Steele. Those in
preparation are Ford, Massinger, in two
volumes; Haywood, Wycherley, Nero
and other plays, Beaumont and Fletcher,
in two volumes; Webster and Tourneur,
Middleton and Shirley, Decker, Ben JON
sou, III THREE CHdpludl, Ndll-
brugh, and Dryden. Each volume is to
have a photogravure of the dramatist.
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The editor of the 'New York Bookman'
wrote TO certain authors asking opinions
as to the relative value of magazine and
newspaper reviews OF books-if in fact
the criticisms in ''the best newspapers of
the country are better than those in the
magazines Jack London, who has
popped into some celebrity as a novelist,
writes that he has "seen some newspaper
reviews which, for seriousness, dignity,
md comprehension, compared favorably
with literary magazine reviews Why
not? The critic for the New York Sun
receives $4,000 a year. more doubtless
than any editor of an American magazine
receives. suppose the critic of the New
York Tribune gets large salary also He
certainly deserves it. The criticisms of
The New York Evening Post, from the
pens OF many writers, are generally dig
nifed, scholarly, able and thorough.
wrote also that another author COM
plains in 'The Bookman' of an offence 1
have several times pointed out-giving an
analysis of novels. Mr.. S. E. White
writes: Nov indiscriminate praise