The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-02-06
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In order to bring the literary history
II Mr.. Roosevelt up to date 1t may be
mentioned that he lately wrote warm
y commendatory letter to Signor Fog
lzzaro; has vigorously indorsed Anne
Warmers Susan Clegg"; is hero of
'ohn Burroughs delightful little book,
Camping and Tramplng with Roose-
'clt"; is hearty sponsor for Prof. Ed
ward Alsworth Ross new essays on
Sin and Society; appears in Mlstrals
Memoirs as fervent admirer of Pro-
'encal, and continues to ignore the Rev.
hr. Long.
From Van Dweller to Commuter,"
" Albert Bigelow Paine, is the record
pf search for home in and around
New York. The many humorous and
Tying situations Incidental to the
'earch are set down with faithful and
'inusing accuracy. All the modern
rials Of domesticity are here recorded,
Ind the compensations, or at least some
If them, as well. What the small house
lolder in and around Babylon may
nave had to undergo, we do not know.
We can be sure, however, that it was
lot the modern apartment fiat or the
moving van. But it may have been
Iomething far more tedious. Mr. Paine,
1t any rate, has not found life tedious.
! Into an otherwise unsympathetic
Jtudy of Gorky Ford MADDOX Hueffer
introduces the following illuminlng par
lllel: ''Tourguenieff Is dead and Dos
'oievsky is dead, and, as a novelist, so
r. Tolstoy. There is alive to-day only
'ne Russian imaginative writer whose
lppeal to the world is widespread. He,
II course, Is Aleksyel Maksimovich
9yeshkov, man of 3S, who uses the
pseudonym Of Maximus the Bitter
Maxim Gorky. Broad-faced, with sci
rown, high-cheek boned, rather harsh.
roiced, rhapsodlzing and little over.
,earing, you cannot imagine greater
contrast with the gently wise, smiling
civilized and sad face OF Tourguenieff
#, as it were, Maxim Gorky sits by the
roadside violently breaking stones FOL
he onward march Of humanity, Tour
yuenieff with resigned irony destroy,
the boulders that beset us, as did Han
nibal the rocks Of the Alps, aceto in
'uso."
In the last ten years in England
there has been the same marked In
crease Of interest In bird life that ther
has been In the United States. Book
If the outdoor world have multiplied i
England as they have in America nm
The demand for them In both countrie
, Seemingly Is as brisk as ever. The at
t vance in illustration methods since
has been found to be entirely possibl
: to photograph living animals in the
native haunts, has aided materially
keeping alive the interest of laymen
natural history subjects. Frank Fin
! IN Englishman who at one time wa
, Wnnected with the Indian Museum
. Calcutta, has written an exhaustiy
Q bird book which he calls "Ornitholog
:al Oddities In 1t he gives the III
! histories of scores Of the worlds bird
He writes as intimately of the India
irongo-cuckoo as he does of the EN-
ish skylark. The book Is full of know
9 .dge Of the kind that one does not s.
n the ordinary ornithologlcal work IL
: ended for lay reading. Mr.. Finn Is a
8 authority on domestic birds and vii
birds and has been recognized as sue
'or long time. His book is full of a
pealing illustrations and one does NJ
: nave to be scientist to enjoy eltht
r he pictures or the story.