The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-04

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about the extraordinary capacity of
Ithe Japanese for organization and
ahout the democratic spirit of the
people as natural proof OF their fitness
| for representative government IN the
| Western sense. mistake appearances
for realities. The truth is that the eX-
traordinary capacity or the japanese
cor communal organization Is tne
strongest possible evidence or their
lnfitness for any modern ue'iiooA "'i1
form of government.
He thinks that they have low con-
ceptions of moral responsibility, ana
the future appears dark. suppISN
ment what | wrote first with the
| above selections. Since L Wrote
found a clipping in my portoho apoue
Hearn that illustrates his young ne
when writing for newspaper III ClL7
cinnati. and reveals an element VI
| recklessness in his Greek-lrlsh nature.
| 1t is said that a steeple Jack VINO was
going to climb to the top or hlgh
church steeple to repair 1t boastea
that he would willingly carry u9 man
on his back. The city editor refused
EIearn the assignment, which the lat
| ter eagerly besought, but finally allow
ed him to GO and Hearn clasped MS
arms around the steeple Jacks neck
and was landed on top of the steeple
amid the cheers of the observing
thousands. After a while he descend
ed and wrote a three column article or
vivid, glowing description OF the city
as seen from that point OF view. ne
article was literature, and was recog-
nized as such by every one who read
it. One little circumstance that his
readers did not know was that Iiearn
Il .NTC
from the end CT his nose, and that the
description Of the city was pure mag
nation.
Frederic Harrison, one of the fore
most of the worlds living critics. could
no longer withhold his skilled hand,
and has published novel called
''Theophano, The Crusade of the Tenth
Century, 1t is in one volume. | sup
pose from what / have seen con-
corning it, that it is failure. He
was not born a novelist, and he is
too old to make himself one.
Jack L0ndon's last novel, 1.-The Sea-
wolf" is said to- be IAN excess of bru-
tality." Enough to damn it,
Miss Corelli is publishing series
of articles in London in which she
goes heavily for the British clergy as
she does for the foibles and sins, the
folies and foonshness of the so-called
society. Mr. w. L. Alden, the London
correspondent, of the n. Y. Saturday
Review, writes :
Having told us that the clergy tell
improper stories after dinner and are
wholly given over to worldliness and
the frivolities of ecclesiastical dress,
she has turned her attention to the
laity. In her last article she deals
with the modern Sunday of society.
DR.. Robertson Nicol, the able edl-
tor of the London British Weekly,
thinks Kiplngs last volume vulgar,
brawling, senseless, arrogant, mate
rialism.' If correct, then the book
should die early and be buried with
out solemnity or regret.
Hon. Justin McCarthy's new work,
is '"The Story of an Irishman." He is
a man of gifts-orator. historian, now
elst, journalists, member of Parlia-
ment, and most popular. Mr.. Alden
writes that his book is very interest
ing, that he has not an enemy in the
world, and his autobiography is we l.
worth reading.
A shameful magazine has been
started in London. 1t is called THE
Brutitarian," and 1t is said that the
editors wish to convince the public
that brutality is saving virtue, and
that it is in danger of extinction They
certainly begin well, for the name of
which you choose-is a most brutal
outrage on the English language"
Hall Game is out again in another
novel that the million" will rush to
read. 1t is called THE Prodigal SON
The first American edition has 225,000
copies. The number printed in Eng
land is $4,000 and it appears stimuli
taneously in nine languages-En English,
German, French, Italian Russian, Fin
ish. Dutch, Swedish and Danish. Rush
and procure copy, and sit up all
might to it. Whether or no it
has any substantial value. / cannot
say. / have seen nothing yet from
judicious critics | can confide in. |
can venture no opinion as | read no
novel until it is one year old or
old enough to stand alone.
A complete edition of William Wat
sons poetry is out He is perhaps the
greatest of the English poets of the
last ten or fifteen years. OF course
SWinburne, the greatest, appeared long
before. It will contain many hitherto
unpublished verses, as will also a new
edition of the works of that great
poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley that is soon
to be published at Oxford England.
An important new work is william
Shakespeare, His Family and Friends"
by the late Charles /. Elton, with II
memoir by Andrew Lang, the most
famous living Scotch critic. That able,
scholarly literary weekly, the London
Spectator" says of it:
1--WE know of no book, save only
Madden's Diary of Master William ST.
Hence, which illustrates the works or
Shakespeare with equal charm and
ingenuity 1t is a 81 book octave.
Kitchen is an English novelist, of
gifts. His last noel is pitched in the
desert of Sahara, contains 500 pages,
and is full of description. 1t is entitled
THE Garden of Allah.' How good it
is / shall never know, for / could not
be induced to tarry through 500 pages
in such a wilderness of sand with it's &C
casional GASES. But it will suit the
million and fetch money, the ena
sought
A year since two Methodist minis
ters of real gifts were sent TO this city
to take charge respectively of Grace
and Fifth Street churches. They were
Rev. A. M. Watson and Rev. A. Nc
Cullen. They have made a decided
impression upon those who have
heard them in the pulpit. They are
men of parts; thoughtful, earnest,
clear and vigorous eXpounders of the
Word of God. As / write. | do not
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