Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-12

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This from an American exchange will
be appreciated by all who have lent
books rs he q thoroughly honest
man| II don't know" answered the
man from Missouri. II have trusted
him with hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars, but l never tried him with a
book"
Henry w. Nevinson, the English war
correspondent, and author Of "A Mod
ern Slavery" has written a personal
narrative Of the Russian crisis, as he
was privileged to observe it in Moscow,
Kieff, Odessa, Warsaw and other towns
where the revolutionary spirit was most
violently displayed during the winter
and spring of 1905-06 The volume will
bear the title, '@The Dawn in Russia"
Dr. G. Stanley Hall, the psychologist,
is rather late in the day in coming to
the defense of the dime novel; If he
had only taken this admirable stand
some thirty years ago he would have
saved lot of suffering to earnest devo-
tees Of this style Of literature, who pur-
sued their studies under great Difficult
ties. According to DR.. Hall, the heroes
of the modern dime novel are hard
workers. They play fair, and the good
hero always triumphs. The william in
variably dies a dreadful death. The
best novels of this type, he declares
are not immoral. They stimulate the
youthful imagination and implant a
desire to perform heroic deeds.
f. Marion Crawfords new novel,
''Prima Donna" will not have initial
publication as a serial before its ap-
pearance in book form in the fall with
the Macmillan imprint. AS the title in
dictates, it will continue the adventures
Of the wonderful soprano Margaret,
and her faithful lover, LushingtOn-
whom some critics have identified as
Melba and Maurice Bernhardt. 1t may
be recalled that the closing chapter Of
Fair Margaret: A Portrait" ended
with the sopranos successful debut in
Brussels and an unsuccessful attempt
on the part of the King of the Belgians
to capture her person if not to capti-
vate her affections. In "Prima Donna"
we shall also learn more about the mys-
terious millionaire Greek.
A few days ago, according to a spec
ial dispatch to the New York Times,
from Berlin, a 12-year-old boy, Wilhelm
Klein, bought a cheap revolver and
started down Inter den Linden with
two young comrades, at 10 o'clock at
night, bent upon highway robbery. They
were caught in the act and sent to the
reformatory and then the German
authorities, seeking to strike at boyish
corruption in it's source, proceeded to
suppress all translatiOns of American
dime novels. There IS something very
funny in this attempt to trace incipient
lawlessness to foreign sources for it
Is a notable fact in the history Of Ger
many that two Of the greatest writer's
of the natiOn-nO mere makers of de-
tective stOries-so wrought upon Ger
man sentiment in drama and novel as
to popularize highway robbery and sui
a time in other countries with ideas of
lawlessness. SO easy it is to endeavor
to shift responsibility to the far-off out
slider. In 1774 appeared Goethe's
''Werther," for the sake Of whose hero
the people excused suicide, and in 1871
appeared Schiller's "RaeuEer," for the
sake of whose hero the people sympa-
thized with robbery. 1t is said that
Goethe's novel led young men by the
score all over the world to shoot them
selves, and Schiller's play made it fash
ionable for romantic Germans to take
to the road; and now forsooth 1t is
claimed that the fimsy dime novel OF
America is responsible for the fact that
a little boy tried to rob an old man IN
| the streets of Berlin.