The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-04

not have 70 exert tneH poWeTs VI ihNcnuo"
for the exposition Of human brutality.
the like OF which have been condemned
for daring to imagine
Zola's comments were repeated TO Mr..
Townsend. and, In his new book. he has
gyen Ia substance the two incidents TO
which lola especially referred These are
the incidents that are arousing criticism.
Elizabeth Marbury. who engineered the
agreement between France and America
regarding the oopyrishting OF plays, IL
largely responsible for the tremendous
popularity Of plays in book form among
French readers. Paris publishers say that
their public is reading plays even more
eagerly than novels and that since the fears
Of pirating are removed, French dramatists
are making as much profit out OF play
publishing as out Of box ofnce receipts.
Charles Eastman. author Of Indian Boy
hood has found the public so readily
interested in the real life Of the Indian
that he is now lecturing successfully
throughout the country.
DR.. Eastman occupies a curious position
In Dakota, where he Is Government ply
stefan among the Crow Indians. The
Indians, usually suspicious OF their brother
Indians who have taken on white civihza-
ton, have learned to place the utmost
confidence in him, and he acts al sort Of
father confessor. not only to the Crows
but-to other neighboring tribes.
New laws have placed these Indiana In
a transition state between primitive ideas
and civilized conventions and they are
In IN
questions. The endorsement OF regular
marriage and divorce laws among the
tribes has been one OF the worst stumbling
blocks, and DR. East man has a trying time
explaining matters to the braves who are
not satisfied with their domestic condition
and haven't the old time privilege Of turn
ing a suuaw out when she doesn't prove
satisfactory.
DIR. Eastman has a keen sense OF humor
and his stories Of the Indian ideas upon
divorce are amusing.
The Bookmon, weary OF inconsistent
stories concerning the sales Of various
popular novels. has asked the publishers
for accurate information. Here are some
Of the figures which have the firms sanction.
Audrey" ......................... no. ono
-The Hound OF the Baskervilles". 81, SIS
THE Il o5ards Spots -............... $1,000
THE Eternal Cit "..................3 2S 900
The Man from q ngarry'. .........i sc, 600
The Ylrglnian ...............'-..''' .ieo, 900
The Crisis ..................-.... so. w
The Cavalier ................,.-..... 'lp.OV
Lives OF the Hunted" $1,000
These are imposing statistics and there
are more like them. but the novels that have
failed are as the sands Of the sea.
John Burroughs has been expressing his
mind about real and sham natural his
tory and various writers Of nature
stories will find his article in the current
Atlantic Monthly unpalatable.
Mr.. Burroughs knows a thing or two
about nature himself and the psychological
studies Of woodchucks and poseums have
goaGed him into speech. He lets c. O. d.
Roberts and William Davenport Hurlbcrt
down easily, even praises them. with reser-
vetions. and he has an exceedingly good
word for Dallas Love Sharp. but fall
upon Ernest Thompson Seton and belabore
him merriIy and IN, Rev. William Longs
animal stories are apparently too much
for his respect for the cloth.
Fiction woven around animals, Mr.. Bur-
no, chs can stand. but he draws the line at
ni..,al stories that set the a 'ts Of natural
history at defiance, and he invoices Gilbert
White, St John, Wallace, Darwin, Bates,
Audubon and other famous nat,l ralists 70
nfite the false prophets who, palm on
inventions az real observations
The article is battle call. and may give
rise to some amusing discussion, but the
veteran nature lover makes out Q good
case for the pl; ntih.