The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-01
NEW BOOKS.
Continued from Seventh Page.

the third rail on the trolley right Of way
you're going to be full Of information In
minute"
Fiat Is the beginning OF the new series
OF. letters written by MIR. George Horace
Iorimers self.made merchant and pub
lshed under the title Of "Old Gorgon Ora
ham, Doubleday, Page 4 Coz. The self
made shows no sign OF weariness In his
epistoIary habit; and II his readers snow
only IL seems likely that he and they Will
be entirely out of sympathy. He utters
here fourteen letters, filling 3O7 pages. His
original powers of epigram and illustrative
snecdote seem to be well sustained, and
-,e -siould say that his proverbial wisdom
was as Astounding and spontaneous as 1t
was at first. We have selected specimen
beginning at page 800. -
.~.You can't afford to give your own men
real grievance. no matter how small 1t Is: Tor
man who's got nothing to occupy him but
his work can accomplish twice as much as
oRa whots busy with his work and q griev-
ance. The average man will leave terrapin
and champagne in a minute to chew over
the luxury Of feeling abused. Even when
. man isn't satisfied with the supply OF
real grievances which life affords, and goes
oh hunting up hhokuHiy ohS'' '"'' " ''s-'-N
old gormandizing French hog that leaves q
full trough to root through the woods
for truffies you still want o be polite; for
when you fire man there's no good reason
for doing it with a yell.
Noise isn't authority, and there's no sense
IN ripping and roaring and cussing around
the Office when things don't please you.
For, when fellows given to that, his men
secretly won't care cuss whether he's
pleased or not. They'll jump when he
speaks, because they value their beads,
not his good opinion. Indiscriminate blame
is as bad al discriminating praise--it
only makes man tired. ,....y..F ...
II learned this, like most OF the sense
I've got-hard; and it was only few years
ago that took my last lesson In it. 1oame
down one morning with my breakfast
digesting pretty easy and found the ORDERS
fairly heavy and the kicks rather light,
so ! told the young man who was reading
thetfiiail to me, and who hadn't had any
thing special to do with the run Of orders.
to buy himself suit Of clothes and send
the bill to the old man.
well, when the afternoon mail came in
dipped into that. too but I'd eaten pretty
tony luncheon, and it got to finding fault
with it's surroundings and the letters were
rs full OF kicks as drove Of Missouri mules.
so / began taking 1t out on the fellow who
happened to be hsndiest, the same clerk to
whom had given the suit Of clothes in the
morning. OF course he hadn't had any
thing to do with the run OF kicks either
but he never put up a hand to defend him
self till was all through, and then he only
asked:
"..Say, Mr. Graham don't you want that
suit Of clothes back9'
"Of course could have fired him on
the spot for impudence. but I made 1t
suit and an overcoat instead. I don't ex-
pect to get my experience on free passes.
And had my moneys worth, too. because
1t taught me that it's a good raieto make
sure the other fellows wrong before you
70 ahead. When you Jump on the man
who didn't do it, you make sore spots all
over him; and It takes the spring out OF
your leap for the fellow who did 1t.
The self-made merchant, though obvi-
odsly witty and wise, is not exactly YER
satile-. He does not vary his song very
much; and we should think It better to read
his letters one at time, or even half one
at time, than to devour all Of them at
sitting. It lie said that the book is to be
published in seven countries 1t il q splen-
did privilege for a philosopher and educator
and enter tsiner to be provided with 30 vast
q field.