The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-11

earth 1t is grand, and it IS
trivial; mighty, and tame; noble, and
base: lofty, and ignoble; ingenious, and
ingenious; a tragedy, with a rag-time ac-
compartment. 1t is the work of a genius,
and reads like the superfluous enthusiasm
of an inexperienced youth. 1t is mag
nifcent. but above and beyond all, its is
maddeningl The One Woman
should be read, and read widely; it should
be thought about, and thought about
deeply; it should be discussed, and with
out fear or favor: and after it all, even ii
it is exasperating, you will decide that it
is great book
While many Northern papers and ma
gaines relegate it to prison and death,
it is particularly noticeable that many
leading newspapers, like the Omaha
World Herald, Atlanta Journal Brooklyn
Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, SYRIA
cuse Post-Standard, Pittsburg Post, Min
neapolis Times, Brooklyn Standard Union,
Buffalo Express, Toledo Blade, Pittsburg
Bulletin, Indianapolis Sentinel, Brooklyn
Eagle, st. Louis Globe-Democrat, Nash
vile American and Richmond Times Dis
patch have very cordial praise for it. The
Yankee papers all damn it incontinently.
They have not forgotten or forgiven the
blow given by THE Leopards Spots A
large number of eminent authors and
ministers of the gospel give it praise
without stint. The editors of the New
York Bookman and New York Critic in
dorse it bravely and agree that it is
story of great power. The ablest and
most successful historical writer of the
South, Hon Thomas e. Watson, OF
Georgia, says it is mastery and first
class. / note that Rev Dr. A. Gunniston,
president of the st. Lawrence University;
Reverend f. J. Gleeson, professor in
Chicago college; Prof. l.. c. Prince, of
Dickinson College, Pa; Prof. Fl. B. Jud-
son, University of Chicago; Rev c. B.
Mitchell, D. D., Cleveland, Ohio; Rev.
j. NJ. Bruce, d. D., pastor in New York;
Rev. f. E. Clark, D. D., Boston; w e.
Waltz, Dean of School of Law, University
of Maine; Rev. DR.. p. S. Moxon, Spring
field, Mass; Rev. DR.. A. j. Rowland,
Secretary American Baptist Publication
Society, Philadelphia; Rev. DIR. j. T. Mac
Intosh, Philadelphia; Rev. Dr. j. b. Gran
fill, Texas; Rev f. Benjamin Adams, d.
D., President University of Nebraska;
Rev. p. b. Gurnsey, President Roger
williams University, r. l.; General
Horatio G. King, Brooklyn, N. Y. and
other men of note and influence all praise
and commend it. General King says lit
is the strongest novel I have read in
years. 1t should have an immense sale
and do great good" The eminent Presi-
dent Andrews pronounces it "a powerful
e Ga4s Il In hot
his stories Dixon introduces, on several
of the momentous subjects now before the
world warnings the most trenchant and
Illuminating"
Rev. DR.. Rowland, of Philadelphia,
says: The One Woman is a scathing
treatment of evils affecting modern So
ciety l congratulate the author and hope
the book may have the widest reading
Dean Watz gives this: "'The One Wo-
man. is a wonderfully fair and graphic
description of the elemental forces that
control both society and individuals, and
powerfully upholds the institution of
marriage. What Kids work on Social
Evolution is in the scientific world, this
book seems destined 10 be in literature
and art"
Rev. DR.. Clarke, President Of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, Boston,
has this approval: 1.-The One Woman
is of thrilling interest and compelled me
to finish it though it took half the night.
Above all, it teaches a lesson today which
the world needs to learn, and slips the
mask from hideous sin against the
sanctity of the family. I am glad to see
that the book has been so widely read
already, and believe its good work has
only just begun"
Rev. DR.. j. M. Bruce, of New York,
says this with other commendation:
" The One Woman's is a story of absorb
ing interest told with consummate skill.
1t is coherent and concise. There is not
a false note or a foolish pronouncement
from beginning to end. 1t is sane, whole
some, unerringly true to the best things
and tremendously strong-all the stronger
because of it's brevity and self-restraint
And what background of New York.
That is one of the many strokes of genius
in the book The author dipped his pen
in his own hearts blood to draw that
picture"
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l wish to correct a few errors made by
Mr. Harrison in the Oxford Ledger con
corning my father, the late Russell Kings
bury, and myself in a kind notice of me.
I correct because I do not wish to wear
honors that are not mine. / do not pur-
pose to appear in borrowed plumes. l
would not correct the errors, but one
paper the Fayetteville Observer, was
kind enough to copy with pleasant edi-
torial introduction, and so the errors
spread Mr.. Harrison says my father
lived at Raleigh, and thence moved to Ok
ford He lived at Halifax and from that
Colonial village moved to Oxford in the
spring of 1882. 1 left the University of
North Carolina before graduation, and
never received any distinction while there
except two compliments conferred by the
Dialectic Society of which I was a mem