Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-01
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1t is we'll occasionally to see ourselves
as others see us, provided such intro
spectionN leads to reform rather than TO
resentment Therefore it may be that A.
Maurice Low has done us real favor
in his comments printed in the August
National Review, an English publication,
under the caption American affairs" Mr..
Low discusses existing relations between
this country and Japan, gives color to
the rumor that Kaiser Wilhelm is re-
sponsible for the announced cruise of the
Atlantic fleet into Pacific waters and
levels humorously critical lance against
our habit of celebrating Independence
day On this last topic he writes:
.sThe Americans have almost the child
ishness of the Chinese in their love for
noise and it is noise purely for the sake
of noise, and not as a by-product, so to
speak, of color or form. We have a ma
tional fireworks celebration in England
on Guy Fawkes day, but the difference
in the way in which these two anniver-
saries are celebrated very characteristic
ally marks the difference between the
American and the English temperaments.
The Englishman waits to celebrate until
nightfall because fireworks are wasted
in the daytime; the American begins at
daybreak, and keeps up the silly per-
formance all day and late into the night
During the day he left off firecrackers
or shoots off revolvers or tcannons,
merely for the satisfaction of producing
great noise. Men, women and children,
boys and girls, as we'll as mere infants,
all join in this pandemonium, all appar-
emily deriving the greatest satisfaction
from it, and all brutally Indifferent to
the comfort or health or the safety Of
the lives or property of their neighbors.
People do not confne their pyrotechnic
noise-rnaking to their own gardens
(American 'backyardsD, but they go
out in the streets, exploding frecrackers
or shooting off revolvers under the win
dows of the i'll or nervous, frightening
horses and causing many accidents. set
ting property on fire, killing and injuring
and destroying, which explains the long
death roll and numerous fires. 1t is sup
posed to be patriotic to celebrate in
this barbaric fashion, and in the name of
patriotism much is done that makes the
judicious grieve."
Referring to kaiser and president Mr..
Low writes: 1T is matter of common
knowledge that the kaiser regards the
president as the greatest ruler in the
world with one exception and that the
president thinks the position of the kaiser
is equally definitely fixed
Mr.. Low is Bostonian, not an English
man. His paper is ore of the distinct fea-
lures of the August National Review
published at % Ryder street. St. James,
-Eondon. S. W.
A complete novelette,, "The Mind Read
err" by DR.. S. Weir Mitchell leads the
September Century a tale rich in that
notable authors characteristic insight
into character, and with an unusual plot
holding interest to an entirely unexpected
conclusion. The serials, Frances Hodg-
son Burnett's "The Shuttle" and Eliza
beth Robins "Come and Find Me- de-
velop with intensifying interest; and there
are short stories also by Dorothea Deakin
Charlotte Wilson, Edward j. Nocton
Beatrice Hanscom and Margaret Hornei
Clyde.
A popular feature of the September
Century is a freshly interesting presenta-
tion of Racing in It's Relation to Hors,
Breeding by John Gilmer Speed, author
of 1.-The Horse in America who takes
the ground that while racing is essentia
to the preservation of the thoroughbred
gambling Is the curse of racing. For th'
reader of distinctly literary tastes, there
are further extracts from Horace Trau
bei's daily record of conversations will
walt whitman in his old age in Cam
den, N. j., containing, much of interes
touching the poets philosophy of life
his feeling about John Burroughs. hi
JnOuSnLS on TedulHBs etc. ATLHuT II. r
Weigall eye witness of one of the mos
remarkable of recent discoveries, that o
the tomb Of the famous Egyptian queen
Thly has written of this discovery. o
the character of Queen THY. and of he
period for the September Century. an,
supplementing this record of importan
excavation work is Robb de Peyster Ty
tus' account of ''The Palace of Amenho
tep III, Husband of Queen THY"
There is another of Mr.. Sigismond d'
Ivanowski's portraits of favorite actresse
in this number, this time Miss Ethe
Barrymore as Nine. Trentoni in "Cap
tain links" Photogravure insets ar
Clifford W. Ashley's "Spearing a Sword
fish, and Howard G. Cushings 9TH
Lady in the Silver Dress" and four page
Of popular interest show G. w. Peters
pictures of the excavations for railroa,
Terminals in New York city.
President Roosevelt. In the Septem
her Everybody's. returns to the at
tack OF the Nature Fakers." Owe
his own signature he repeats tn
charges of falsehood. directing his fir,
chiefly against w. J. Long, whose af
fdavits he declares are worthless.
A group Of prominent naturalists ais