The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-06
CLEANTNCS IN The
LITERARY FIELD

Clarence S. Darrow, the we'll known
lawyer, who conducted the case for
the miners in the recent series of hear
ings before the coal commission is
about to make an appearance in the
book world as an author. During the
past year Mr.. DarroW has written q
number of short stories which he
hopes to bring out in volume before
long. The stories were all written
with purpoSe-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
public. Some time ago he wrote a
number of mastery essays on Tolstoi
Burns and other well 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 ex-
pression-the glOrification or uplift-
ing of the poor of the under class His
enemies call him an anarchist, a So
cialist, revolutionist, TO all of which
the IaWyer-author agrees. His friends,
however, tell you to read his essay on
THE Doctrine of Non Resistance"
In his Persian Pearl and Other Es-
says, the volume of essays already
referred to, Mr.. Darrow has treated of
Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman, Burns
and other well known literary charac-
ters from the point of view of a social
list, yet 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 today, Walt
Whitman will stand alone, the greatest.
Uuest' noblest prophet of the age. a
man untainted by artificial life and
unmoVed by the false standards of his
time"
Mr.. barrow is an out and out real
list L doubt" said he the other day,
whether any Of the regular maya
zines would print any of my stuff. 1
try to write with and for purpose 1
believe 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 Tolstoi
We'll may Tolstoi say that we must
turn back from the false, unwholesome
luxury of today, to the patient. simDle
poor. Well may he turn from his
disciples, 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 wandering, homeless Magda-
lens.
The Voice of Tolstoi.
Leo Tolstoi has the brain to see and
the strength to do. Amid the univer-
SAL clamor of the crowd he has raised
his voice for justice and for right. and
his strong words and brave message
VIII be borne by other tongues, and
upheld by other lives until righteous
ness shall rule upon the earth. In that
gay no man VIII compel the service of
ms fellow man, but each will gladly
labor for the whole moved nv the
righteous power of love. The great
artists Will paint no more to adorn the
mansions of the rich, but earning his
1lght to live by the labor of his hands
ana 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 a part
or daily life, and daily life a part of
art. TO make one pair of shoes for
weary feet will be as worthy in the
SIsht OF man as to write an epic poem,
or compose a deathleSs song; to thatch
one FOOT as great as to paint the great
est hues that the sunset ever wrought:
ana 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."
barrow is the biggest man in Chica go
so far as working people are concern
ed, 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
Wrlung Tor the general public is well
worth Watching
Roosevelt Boosts Books.
So freely has President Roosevelt
contributed to the success of various
books he likes by commencing them in
public, that it has become a mat
Ter of great pride to a publisher who
secures this high authority's approval.
1t is not at all likely that the president
has thought of the far-reaching effect
of such commentator, or of the in
Justice he does to publishers whose
books he does not find time to read.
but, as a literary log roller. he is a
very strenuous success. Last summer
he CHANGED to read 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 have
drawn enough conclusion Recently
the president commended The Woman
Who Tolls" by Mrs. and Miss Van
Worst, and as a result the book is one
OF the good sellers. 1t happens that
it was on this occasion that the agita-
IlOn on race suicide was started. This
latter fact has given the book even
wider publicity than could have been
had in any other way
The art of literary log rolling is adj
Vancing to a remarkable state of per
lection. Long before book is in type
1t has frequently been submitted to a
number of well known men who are
asked to say what they think of it.
Out of score of opinions some few
should be good enough to use in ads.
So the work goes on.
Quite the most amusing effort of one
writer to obtain publicity has as it
should. resulted in notoriety, She
goes from city to city, accompanied by
press agent. This astute man. ex-
perlenced in newspaper work, visits
the newspaper offices and invites the
editor over to meet the distinguished
writer Now and then the distinguish
ed writer lets 1t be known that she
has come to meet some we'll known
ACTOR to see about a stage version of
tler most famous book. Sometimes
she intimates that she has been capti-