New-York tribune., 1907-06-01


small bit of land. dealt with intelligently. in
! dustriously- aDd with genuine interest, are de-
! srrfned in a sprightly fashion in Three Acres
! and Liberty CThe Macmillan Company, by Mr..
! Bolton Hall. The lesson of intensive cultivation
| IS one that Americans have long neglected,
| though ii is an old story in Europe, AS ap-
! piled TO the experiment of the cultivation of
| vacant lots by the unemployed. the method is
| calculated TO cheer both the philanthropist and
/ the nature lover. The chapter on this experi-
ment is full of interesting details of the effect
| upon physical mental and moral health, and
| upon the pocket. In a chapter on What an
! Acre May Produce" Mr. Hall presents an in
stance Of successful farming which may well
/ rouse the envy of the poor man pent within city
! streets. The single acre of irrigated land is in
! the Sacramento Valley, and is the property of Il
! man who has grown old tilling it for the past
thirty years:
Mr.. Cleeks makes comfortable living from this
! year besides. lie has money TO loan, if not to
burn as well as fruit vegetables and poultry prod
- - 20 sen 70 th"Se VINO are getting poorer every
year in carrying on big farms without irrigation.
Among the productive items this particular
! 1cre are twelve lemon trees and eight orange
| trees, all bearing; four apricot trees, six fig
| trees, three peach trees and one lime tree from
which were sold in one year 100 dozen lines y
little farm near Reading, Penn. is owned by
Mr.. Oliver r. Shearer, who may be said to be,
as Mr.. Hail notes. one of the most successful
farmers in the United States
This farm contains three and third acres only
Two and a half of which cultivated. but they
yield the owner annually from $500 81 800 From
paid $500 for his property which. besides the land.
consists Of a modern twO-story brick house, with
narn' chicken yard and orchard. the whole sur
rounded by neat fence. He has also raised and
secrets. Mr., shearer says. about his method Of
farming A study Of conditions the application of
nd Iut ltrgy- he as
Serts' VIII enable anv farmer to do what he has
expects to send agent to make a study of Mr.
Shearer's methods for publication in of its
In short, Mr. Shearer and other successful
practisers of intensive cultivation trork and use
brains while they are about il. This is what
Mr.. Halls fascinating little book breaches in
one way another throughout. 1t is full OF
practical suggestions for earning a living in
many direCtions-in raising flowers, poultry,
fruit. drug plants etc, While it does not at
tempt to give detailed instruction, it opens a
gate into a happy country. full of opportunities
for the worker.
There IS n pretty picture OF Professor Huxley
in Mrs. Sellars's book of "reminiscences He ad-
mired greatly a certain lovely and brilliant
young girl, and the grave man of science talked
to her with winning courtesy. He insisted on
hearing all the details of her balls declaring
that when he heard dance music il was all he
could do to keep his old feet quiet" A recolIec-
tton in sad contrast with this is Of Mrs sellars's
visit to Carlyle in his last days:
scbsd M@eH ba enffrsd m sS the stpg room often de
empty, but ! saw the coverlet on the sofa move
tcnuatcd-was under it, with Ills face T." tho ' val
lie put out his hand over his shoulder 10 shake
without pain an1 dircdIyfo my r'eT e@aa; @ hope
q IN Ha .7If.F
asked about my husband and referred TO his yisit
to Edinburgh Lord Rector ana again to our our
having met last AZ the station AT DinTrIes in tT.
iHdst OF screaming engines and other infernali-
bust Of Dickens and tablet have been set
up on the site OF Furnivars Inn. where the
earlier parts OF "Pickwck' were written. oddly
enough. the bust is the work Of Mr. Percy Fitz-
gerald. tablet with profile Of Goldsmith
has also been produced by Mr. Fitzgerald aud
set Up by the Benchers Of the Middle Temple in
Brick Court. where "Gody'' died
Mr. Andrew Lang is given now and then TO
gently puncturinE current literary windbags.
Here Is one OF his recent utterances:
Old fellows are apt to say that We have no emf
n"ul potU. or mono under seventy. This is the
aatchwori IS true iad w. an eminent posf b,
tween Gray and Burns These dark iuJeriunar
But the young tho woud-bc young assure us
tilHl We nave pic MY or eminent poets. who
uurccoeuizrd, Nk. Keats. Coleridge and shelley
about NlG-Jsio am Lot denying it, th,re may be- a
dozen lnEIorlOus but not NUT" SAclcys. Cocridccs
and kcatses u England and Ireland. Scotland is
quite unaware of such purtcuts between Tweed and
John o Groats- My ignorance must be confessed.
know none OF the latent splcudotS even the
rest Of IN" up-to-dateD United Kingdom. must
Get their names from their admirers in tho press
their works from Mr.. Balm wre~tlr with scuila
prejudice. snd try honestly To appreciate the
kcats"s and tocridCos OF our time.
After ALL am not So very prejudiCed | did ind |
or think had found. Young poe, I'm Nc4rg.
hut when he published | had fellow ad-
rntrers-as far as am aware-cNccpt small boy,
now edition OF Sir Thomas Brownies writ
ings-the first and second volumes Of which /
We're published by NTr Grant Richards before |
his firm fell into diticu1ies-will probably be |
completed soon. An Edinburgh publishing house |
has undertaken the production of the third and /
final volume. 1t Is stated that this viii /
contain the wise physicians letters a large |
part of his correspondence. according to Mr. |
Shorter. remains unpublished.
BOOKS or THE WEEK.
a GUIDE TO THE PAINTINGS IN THE FLORFNTtHr, |
dema. critical Catalogue. with Quotatlcns from
ztr9fad with