The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-24


 When asked what he considers the solution of this problem, the negro, Mr. Dixon unhestitatingly replied, "Col- onize him. His racial characteristics are as radically different from ours as the Mongolian and it is just as im- possible to asslmilate them. The prob lem is by no means solved We have hardly yet faced 1t. The negro as a laborer is utterly inadequate to meet the demands of the south, and as time gees on, he is becoming more and more inadequate"
 HOW TO TELL THE BIRDS FROM THE FLOWERS" by Prof Robert w. Wood. published by Paul Elder &s Co., New York and San Francisco; 75 cents.
 Professor Robert w, Wood of Johns Hopkins University, author of an ad- vanced treatise on the theory of light ad various scientifiv papers such as the Fluorescence and Magnetic Rota- ton Spectra of Sodium vapor and Their Analysis, might claim close af- f1nity to Lewis Carroll, the profound mathematician and creator of the in lmitable Alice in Wonderland droll- cries. Mir. Woods latest effort is an important treatise on no less a sub ject5ect than How to Tell the Birds From the Flowers, aptly described as manual of flornithology for begin ners
 Nature students who have hitherto wrestled with the annoying problem of differentiating between such homo logous species as the Crown and the Crocus the Parrot and the Carrot, the Cow-bird and the Cowslip, the Blue Mountain Lory and t'o 7lue Morning | glory, will be both s sed and in structed by this little volume No longer need one worry over the close resemblance of the Pecan to the Tou- can, for, though,
 Very few can tell the Toucan
 From the Pecan-heres a new plan! To take the Toucan from the tree, Requires immense tgl-i-tee, While any one can pick with ease The Pecans from the Pecan trees; It's such an easy thing to do, That even the Toucan he can too."
 For years no scientist in this coun- try at least, has been able to distin- guish to @ reasonable certainty, be- tween the common term (Stirna hi- rundo) and the commoner Turnip (Brassica campestris). MT. Wood graphically illustrates the striking similarity between two typical indi- viduals of either species, supplement- ing lifelike sketches with the follow ! ing distinctive description:
 ITO tell the Turnip from the Tern, A thing which every one should learn Observe the Tern up in the air,
 See how he turns-and now compare, Him with this inert vegetable,
 Who thus to turn Is quite unable, For he is rooted to the spot, 1 While as we see the Term is not; But the Turnip is not doomed to be Thus bound to earth e-tern-ally, For cooked to turn may be inferred To change the Turnip to the Bird" While the authors high standing in the scientific world places him be- yond such attacks as have been di- rected against the writers of nature books, we venture to criticize his drawings which though clever, are not always accurate. We even have the uncomfortable feeling that per haps he is polSing fun at us when he says, in writing of the Cow-bird and | Cowslip,
 "The Cow-bird picture, I suspect, Ills absolutely incorrect;
 We make such errors now and then, A sort of COW slip of the pen"
 The book is attractively bound ir blue school-book boards, leather pa per bacvk, at 50 cents net and, ir more remarkable manner, in Cat-bird Cambric.
 THE STUMBLING BLOCK" by Jus. tus Miles Forman, published by Harper &s Bros, New York; $1,50.
 "The Stumbling Block" by Justus Miles Forman, published by Harper & | Bros, New York; $1.5O
 1 In Justus Miles Formans "Stumb. ling Block" a very pretty and telling picture is drawn of two women who are the leading characters in the story while MT Forman has done admirably also in portraying the two men witt whom the story is chiefly concerned MT. Forman departs in this story from his customary rose leaf romano ing, which causes regret among some of the thousands of admirers of hi work, yet in ''The Stumbling Block" h, strikes a deper note and deal with success with subtle phases of human character ant emotion, which requires even highe artistic work than in his previous nov els. The stumbling block in the stor is the beautiful wife of the hero, Da vid Rivers. David having fallen love with a very beautiful girl, Rose