Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-22
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In order to bring the literary history
of Mr.. Roosevelt up to date It may be
mentioned that he lately wrote warm
~ commendatory letter to Signor Fog
aZzaro; has vigorously Endorsed Anne
Warmers Susan Clegg"; is hero of
John Burroughs delightful little book,
Camping and Tramping with Roose-
velt" is hearty sponsor for Prof. Ed
ward AlswOrth Ross new essays Oh
"Sin and Society; appears in MistraPs
Memoirs as fervent admirer Of Pro
vencal, and continues to ignore the Rev.
Mr. Long.
From Van Dweller to Commuter,"
by Albert Bigelow Paine, is the record
Of search for a home in and around
New York. The many humorous and
trying situations incidental to the
search are SET down with faithful and
amusing accuracy. All the modern
trials Of domesticity are here recorded,
and the compensatiOns, or at least some
Of them, as well. What the small house
holder In and around Babylon may
have had to undergo, we do not know
We can be sure, however, that 1t was
not the modern apartment fat or the
moving van. But it may have been
something far more tedious. Mr.. Paine,
at any rate, has not found life tedious.
Into an otherwise unsympathetic
study of Gorky Ford MADDOX Hueffer
introduces the following illumining par
allel: ''Tourguenieff is dead and Dos
toievsky is dead, and. as a novelist, so
iH TOlstoy. There Is alive to-day only
one Russian imaginative writer whose
appeal to the world is widespread He,
Of course, Is Aleksyei Maksimovich
Pyeshkov, man of SO, who uses the
pseudOnym of MaXimus the Bitter
Maxim Gorky. Broad-faced, with a set
frown, high-cheek bOned, rather harsh
voiced, rhapsodiZing and a little over
bearing you cannot imagine a greater
contrast with the gently wise, smiling,
civilized and sad face Of Tourguenieff.
If, as it were, Maxim Gorky sits by the
roadside violently breaking stones for
the onward march of humanity, Tour
guenieff with a resigned irony destroys
the boulders that beset us, as did Han
nibal the rocks of the Alps, aceto In
fuso."
In the last ten years in England
there has been the same marked in
crease of interest in bird life that there
has been in the United States. Books
| oPf lao hox tod IN
England as they have in America and
the demand for them in both countries
seemingly is as brisk as ever. The all
vance In illustration methods since it
has been found to be entirely possible
to photograph living animals in their
native haunts, has aided materially In
keeping alive the interest of laymen in
natural history subjects. Frank Finn,
an Englishman who at one time was
connected with the Indian Museum,
Calcutta, has written an exhaustive
bird book which he calls "Ornithologi-
cal Oddities" In it he gives the life
histories of scores Of the worlds birds.
He writes as intimately of the Indian
drongo-cuckoo as he does of the Eng
lish skylark. The book is full of knowl-
edge Of the kind that one does not get
In the ordinary pathological work in
tended for lay reading. Mr.. Finn is an
authority on domestic birds and wild
birds and has been recognized as such
for long time. His book Is full of ap-
pealing Illustrations and one does not
have to be scientist to enjoy either
the pictures or the story.