Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
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world, and possible dangers to Ameri-
can civilization.
In this last lecture, under the head
ing of 1.-The American and the Intel
lectual Life" President Butler presents
what to his mind is the basis of culture
in America-and treats, among other
Things, of our art and architecture,
scientific and educational activity, and
American literature in general.
The interest which these lectures have
already excited abroad has resulted in
demand for their publication in Dan
ish, German and Franch translations.
The American as He Is. BY Nicholas
Murray Butler. New York: Macmillan
& Co.
DR.. Zane Grey, author of "The Last
Of the Plainsmen," comes naturally by
h-s adventurous instincts. He was
born in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, of the pioneer
Zane family. His grandfather,
Ebenezer Zane, earned the title of
colonel early in the Revolution, and
was the friend of Washington and Dam
iel Boone. He blazed trail through
Ohio, and was afterward commissioned
by Washington to convert it into a
national turnpike, receiving 1000 acres
of Ohio land in payment.
mother of DR.. Greys forbears, Isaac
Zane, was captured by the Huron In
dams and held for thirteen years, dur
ing which time Myeerah, the chiefs
lovely daughter, became strongly at
tached to him. She saved him from
death many times, and it was suggest
ed to him that he marry her and be re-
ce1Ved into the tribe; but he refused,
and at length made his escape, only
to fall into the hands of the Seneca
chief, Cornplanter AS this vengeful
Indian was about to burn him at the
stake, band Of Huron warriors, led
by the girl, Myeerah, burst through the
thicket, routed the few Senecas who
had captured Zane, and rescued the
fainting man. Shortly afterWard Isaac
Zane made Myeerah his wife, and the
Hurons eventually became a peaceful
tribe.
Cleveland the Man." by George F.
Parker, a paper containing some inti-
mate "reminiscences of a beloved nation
al character; "Our Navy on the Land .
by George Kibbe Turner, the story OF
the greatest waste of national funds in
the history of the United States; Work
at the Rockefeller Institute" by Bur
ton j. Hendrick, an article describing
the wonderful experiments Of DR.. Alexis
Carrel in transplanting the organs of
animals; 1.-The Scientific Solution of the
Liquor Problem another paper Of the
series by DR.. Henry Smith Williams
which has attracted national attention
these and other features make the
February issue of McClure's Magazine
an unusually strong number. The
number also contains the second in
stallment of Mrs. Humphry Wards
new novel, Marriage a la Mode" in
which she gives a remarkably striking
portrait of President Roosevelt; an in
structive paper dealing with 1.-THE
Origin of Life on This Planet" and an
article entitled IAN Audience with Lin
coln," in which the writer shows with
what patience and discrimination the
great president heard the many petit
TONERS that came before him. There
are short stories by Mary S. Watts
Joseph Kocheli, Robert Sloss, Caroline
Lockhart, Hugh Wakefield and Adele
Marie Shaw.
1t is hard to imagine any industry
better suited to the sort Of combination
that spells monopoly than the develop
ment of power from public waterways.
The possible supply is limited; one can
not construct a waterfall wherever the
fancy wills. The economies of combin-
alton are numerous; they include the
savings that come from avoiding the
duplication of transmission lines and
generating plants, as we'll as the
economies common to concentrated con-
troll in other industrial enterprises.
The dominance of the markets for
power may be made as cOmpelte as
the control of it's sources; it comes
from the ownership of municipal fran
chises and from long-term contracts
with private consumers who are at the
mercy of those who own the only avail
able power. Under these conditions it
hardly requires any argument to prove
that the inevitable tendency in this
business, once the public relinquishes
it's authority, is to the creation of
monopoly.
1t matters not SO far as the power
consuming public. is concerned whether
this monopoly is exercised by a single
combination extending all over the
country or by a series of combinations
each one supreme in it's own territory
There are we'll defined limits beyond
which it is not practicable to transmit
electric or hydraulic power, and a. COM
pany which controls the power of a
single state or a group of states will
have nothing to fear from competition.
Earl Mayo in the Metropolitan Mag
azine.
Early in February the Macmillan
company will publish two important
novels-'The Three Brothers. - by Eden
Phillpotts, in which the famous English
novelist returns to the Dartmoor cour-
try with which his name is closely as
Sociated, and 1.-THE Straw" by Rina
Ramsay, a new author of whom much
is expected. A new book by the vet
eran Lord Avebury (Sir John Lub-
bock), peace and Happiness is also
announced for publication early in the
month.
Coincident with the revival in this
country of the crusade against vivisec-
ton, B. W. Dodge & Co. announce the
immediate publication Of G. CoImore's
remarkable novel, priests of Prog
reSS," which has been a sensation of
the past English publishing season.
1t describes the career of a Sidney
Gale, who enters the medical profession
as an enthusiastic believer in orthodox
methods, and forms an attachment to
girl-the heroine of the story-whose
father is a well known physiologist
and champion of the vivisectionists.
Sidney's own hospital experiences dis
turb his mental balance, and for some
time he remains undecided: but at
length professional esprit de corps and
his respect for the father of the woman
he loves prove too strong for him and
he declares for vivisection The hero
ines faith is also sorely shaken by the
narrowing experiences of treatment ac-
corded to patients by surgeons who are
practicers of vivisection; but she also
eventually marries a scientist, though
without deep attachment. They have
an Invalid child, and the heroine is
drawn closer to her husband and her
belief in vivisection becomes a passion
owing to her husbands impotent en-