The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-04

perception of this that Powers jackson
left his millions for the founding OF
school for the children of workingneh,
with a diEnly conceived idea OF creating
"a source Of help and inspiration to
the common man, who must iapot an
his days at common tasks and can look
to no material advancement in lie.
His idea is not at all graSped by MS
trustees under whose direction the
great Industrial school is founded. They
appoint a snowy man of large talk
about the new in education to be It's
head and it becomes only another copy
of many archaeological schools Of the
east. an institution for educating the
people out of their class making them
ambitious to push ahead of their EEL
lows into a higher class The hope held
out by this new education" is the
same as that held out by the old: not
the advancement of the occasional per-
severing and fortunate ones; not the
identifying and identifying of the COM
mon lot" but escape from II by the oid
avenues of special privileges, special
advantages. special talents.
In sharp contradistinction to the
superfciality of the life and the ideals
Of Jackson Hart in his fight for success
and mower in his profession and place
in the social order is the earnestness
and passion of scientific study In Dr.
Coburn a poor, struggling young pny-
sician who cares too much Tor Sclentinc
axDeriuents and the working out OF
paving practice. Coburn, too, SHOWS
the deteriorating influences or the
"beast-tussle to snatch dollar thal
some other man wants 10 get from
YOU" even though he wants his dollar
for some higher purpose than actuate
jackson Hart in his fight Tor power
But Coburn is a strong ana aohliL ,Il
character, a man of unself1sh ana non
orable desires. Born 10 PoNeL . ~, W S 30
MANY garities, almost brutaltles OF
manner and speech he had missed
many of the refining influences OF CIVIL
ization which made Jackson hart the
noIished. agreeable, attractive ana en-
Pertaining man of the world but the
rioht stuff was in him. when lire
treated this man rudely he would nshL
hack and he would win against ouuS'
And with him winning meant not money
and creature comforts but an onward
Ste1 for science and intellectual prog
ress. -. -.,-o.1,,
less interest than DR.. Coburn IS Neneua
Philips a daughter or the smart SeI'
With a. fine nature, a noble heart
lreen mind. almost ruined by the Iaiss
standards of her education and a IrlV-
olo1s purposeless existence. IL IS nc
less gratifying in the case or LoDurh
and Venetia than OF Jackson anu i go,
that their share of the common LOT
10 work in ones time with ones Eel
lovrs''-turns out not so badly aIleI al
The Common Lot by Robert He rrlch-
Published by the MacIlllisili 49,
Price $3.50.
Harpers have just published new new
hook by Sam Gardenhlres 1oLHle.Ay
clerk of the Shawnee county dlslrlcs
court. 1t is a Wall street story an ahe !
Si1ance of Mrs. Harold" The pub
fishers say Of the book ok c'1 Mr; G has
800 ss near to picturing the real
cosmopolitanism of New York in his
now novel, The Silence of Mrs. Har-
rold.' as any author is likely ever to
do. in a single story. So many types
of character are merged In the WORK
ing out of the tale; types OF the sell
made men of the west and south;
Semitic types; English and Conunentaal
tvpes: the multimillionaire and his
scion: the man of power in Wall
street, in the theatre. in social circles LEI,
/ in the smart set, in the nome; the
obscure and struggling inventor; the
reigning star on the metropolitan
stage. All these and more make theil
/ bow to the reader from the stage OF
| Mr.. Gardenhire'S book.