The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-30
Book Reviews and Notes Of the Publishers.

ular wives at once; a poor man can afford only one, and a rich man does not go beyond two, who live apart each having her own establishment. Some women maintain their independ- ence, demanding of a suitor that he sign a contract binding himself neith- CT to marry nor buy any one else"
 The Princess, however, admits that all is not rose colored in domestic life where there are various wives in one household, and sAe adds: Naturally enough hatred and malice step in, and the hot Southern blood boils up in flu rious jealousy-the frequent manifes- tation of which should tend to prove how much more ardently the Oriental loves than her calmer Northern sis ter. Through the passion of jeal- ousy polygamous life often renders itself uncomfortable, and that is we'll. Many an af1luent man ballls at the daily scenes and quarrels, proferring the one-wife system to such q contin- gency. That polygamy admits of neither defence nor excuse every per son able to think intellgently, and especially every woman, must plainly sec"
 But what about marriage among Christians-among civilized Euro peans?" cries the Princess "Is we'd lock really such sacred institution among them?' she queries. "Is it not often absurd to speak of one wife ?"
 True, the Christian dispensation permits but single mate, and that is a great blessing. Christianity com mands the good and the right, Mo hammedanism allowing evil. Yet the prevailing customs and actualities of Oriental life mitigate the bad conse- quences of the law to an apprecable degree, while here sin very frequently takes the upper hand in spite of the law. Almost the sole difference be- tween an Oriental Woman's situation and a Western woman's seems to be that the first knows the number and perhaps the disposition and charact- CT of her rivals, whereas the other is kept in charming ignorance.'
 Speaking of the slavery question the Princess remarked that slavery is too time honored a custom in the East to be abolished summarily and adds: An Arab using slaves for field Or housework, and a European compell- ing them to the harder task of carrier or coolie, where's the difference from the moral standpoint? Then Euro pean slave owners do not invariably set the negroes free after long services as the Arabs so often do, but resell them. Considerable indignation once seized the Mahometans of Zanzibar upon learning how departing Eng lishman had sold his black concu- bine, not to be sure In the open mar ket, but to an Arabian official. Or an other incident likewise affronting oul sense of propriety; neighbor to the French consul chastised his recalci- trant slave as severely as he deserved but with negro's usual cowardice and inability to bear pain in silence he set up a frightful howl which brought down the French consul's rather arrogant interference. The gentleman was himself no immaculate saint seeming to hold the maxim 'let others practice what preach For he lived with negress he had bought who has presented to him an ex- | cessively black little daughter-fna l ly taken in by the Mission. There are a few selections from the very inter- esting narrative.
 THE UPRISING OF THE MANY, ? | by Charles Edward Russell, published by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York | $1.50 at Judd's.
 | Charles Edward Russell has fur nished in his new book "The Uprising of the Many" a work deserving of careful reading. It presents a discus sion of the great question of twenti- eth century industrialism and of gov ernment in relation thereto and is ot special timely interest also in view of the turmoil existing throughout the country to-day as regards the furort against trusts and all financial com binations, paternal government ques- ton, governmental ownership of the railroads, the wickedness of being a ulti-millionaire, government bS commission, State rights, etc. The | author of this book has gone tht rounds of the world in contrasting thu ! evils under which people suffer wher' ever greed and grab enrich the fev | to the hardship of the many" witt | the situation where the many tak' a hand in the conflict. One revolts { however, against Mir Russelrs viev that everything is about as it should be in other countries and that abou everything is wrong in the United 1 States.
 Mr. Russell writes as follows il presenting his summary of what h, has seen and recorded "The naked facts, as certain as day and night, ar, that other cities than ours do ge along without strap-hanging, withou crowded $. cars, without anarchisti
 corporations, without the debaucninl 1 of official morality by vested interests Other countries than ours do get alonl without railroad rebates, corporation graft or corporation interference witl
 public affairs. And so long as that so the condition of our public serN,n
 is an indelible disgrace for which n, ingenuity can devise an excuse" HI
 program of action is Ito substitute tn interest of the community for the in
 terest of the fortunate or powerful in
 dividual," and ito restrain greed, no
 by regulating it, but by making i'm
 possible some of it's most obvious ant dangerous operations.'
 While, as already indicated, all tha
 MT. Russell says should be considere,
 infallible, 1t is credible that he speak
 from the heart and with sincerity a
 well as earnestness of purpose. Wha
 may be accomplished in little com