The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
BY HECTOR FULLER.

R FULLER.
problem of perennial interest, and a
question that clamo-s more and more
! impcTativcly for present attention ana
attempted solution.
Mr. Meredith Nicholson's story, The
House Of a Thousand Candles" which
delighted the world OF fiction in this
/ country, seems to have repeated its sue
/ cess in the other quarters Of the globe
AIessrs. Gay & Bird. those cheerful Eng
{ lIsh publishers, have brought out several
editions for Great Britain and the colonies.
A Swedish edition has been arranged for.
and French translation is contemplated.
/ This same authors The Port OF Missing
Men" Just published bids fair to rival
I the former book in popularity.
/ The latest volume of the Dowden
/ Shakespeare is Loves Labour's Lost, -
edited by II. c. Hart. Il maintains the
/ high standard set for this excellent edi-
/ ton by Prof. Edward Dowden and the
/ late W J. Craig.
/ More and more does Walt Whitman
seem TO be coming into his ovn, and it
really seems sometimes as if. after all.
/ the years to come viii hail him as the
greatest singer OF his century. Nearly
/ every critic is loud in his praise. and
they vie with each other in saying nice
/ things about him. The most recent utter
auce comes from Gerald Stanley Lee, who
/ declares that In the meantime Walt
/ Whitmans poetry. IN spite of the long.
/ jogging, numbering places in IL, comes
/ nearer 10 reaching out to what the mod
/ ern age is trying to be than any other
| that we have. Whitman may or may not
| be considered d poet. but he has out
swept the bounds of beauty for human
/ life. He has seen the whole universe in
every clOd of it, lie has Gods definition
I OF beauty. naturally he does not express
/ il as well as God does. His symbolism
/ Is crowded with hapless places, and God S
/ symbolism never misses the point. but
as the ground-plan for Il great modern
/ poet-an original or working poet, IN q
new-built, neW-bUilding, working world.
/ Walt Whitmhn is the first and only figure
/ large enough that the world has had. He
1 had a larger repertoire Of joys-joys with
| everyday things that any man might
/ hayc-than any other poet His auto
/ biography would take in larger section
/ OF the universe"
/ The next important literary celebration
/ will probably be the 2O0th anniversary of
/ the birth of Henry Fielding, the father
/ OF the modern English novel. Fielding
was born at Glastonbury, on April %.
I 1907 and to-day he stands in the minds
/ OF most literary critics as the leading
/ English novelist. He wrote FOR another
4 age than ours. and lie wrote frankly.
/ perhaps brutally, but the picture he has
! left us in Tom Jones" stands as that of
/ the typical middle-agcd squire of Eng
/ land, and the novel, as a whole, gives US
/ the truest view extant of the manners
/ and morals Of its time.
/ "The New Internationalism," by Harold
/ Bolce is a book that viii commend itself
/ to the thinker and to the student of poll
/ tics. The design Of the author is to show
that the world is being merged financially.
+ and that the new internatiOnalism is not
/ TO be the product OF the sword or battle
! shin. but is TO come through commerce
/ and reciprocity. Many statistics are used
/ IN the course Of the argument, which
points out that even tariff walls cannot
/ keep capital out Of a country. Mr.. BOlce
] instances the great many factories that
are being built in Europe by American
/ capital. and OF the large sums invested
/ by Europe in American industries and
/ railways. The author shows that the
/ advance Of one nation means the ad-
vance Of all; inventions by one nation
/ helps all the others, and. as he says:
! THE kerosene oil Of America is the light
/ Of Asia" He compares the wealth of
/ Europe with that OF America; the S24.600, 70
| 000,000 Of Europe with the $4,000 900 900
/ estimated wealth of the United States,
/ and says that when craftsmanship or
/ politics shuts out trade from the markets
| OF Europe it is closing against us the
/ most aliUring field that progress has yet
/ unroiled. He says: Reciprocity with
/ Europe along the paths Of peace would
vastly multiply the already numerous
/ fortunes Of both hemispheres.
/ Mr.. BOlCe declares that tariff walls are
/ useless and d hindrance to trade. that
while tariffs have been necessary when
! we were struggling commercial nation.
/ prosperity has now piled so high that no
/ tariff wall can contain il. He says.
] II there were at the Mexican and Canadian Dor
ders gates winging both ways in the tariff wall the
traffic that would pass through would transform the
whole American continent into duplication Of that
prosperity that has merged our reciprocal CON-
munities. and make them greater indusrrially and
/ commercially than any other one nation.
! He declares that the finance Of modern
/ times has made a mockery OF the tariff
/ barriers, just as fin the OLD days gunpow-
I u q IN ola
walls. He chides the American public for
/ its indifference to foreign trade because
/ II is so busy figuring up the totals Of our
own industrial, commercial, and financial
/ success. He says:
u is pleasing 70 the American ear. this news that
tho slaves Of Africa, the camels OF the desert the
1 reindeer Of Lapland the nanas Of Peru the yaks
| Of Thibet and the dogs Of the arctic circle take
I M freight where the roads terminate and carry
American goods 10 the limits Of human hahitation.
. but whatever goes % these distant parts Of the
I earth from tho United States is a triumph If en-
terprlse On the part Of tie buyer America has
/ not sought his tafnC.
| This volume is written in a scholarly.
/ thoughtful way; il stands for the highest
and the truest Americantsm; It is a book
whose influence should be widespread and
/ significant. (New York: d. Appleton <
! Coz
/ The record for book popularity at the
Public Library shows that during the
past week the nonfction books most
called for were Steiner's "On the Trail Of
/ the Immigrant" and Thomson's brain
and Personality" In fiction the demand
/ was for Winston Churchins "Coniston'
and Lucas Alalet's 1.-THE Far Horizon. -
while among the juveniles the two books
were Alcott's Eight Cousins" and Lang 5
/ Violet Fairy book.