Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

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e'' Inc lslanu OF Regeneration, has
been barred from the Toledo Public
Library.
Professor William James has been
elected an honorary associate of the
Academy of Moral and Political Sci
ence at Paris.
Sir H. H. Johnston has written a
book on The Negro in the New
World ~embOdying the results of his
study of the color problem in the
United States, the West Indies and
tropical America.
Jack London takes issue with a
California preacher as to the meaning
OF his novel, Martin Eden" DR..
Brown miSunderstands the work as an
indictment of materialism," he said.
1 wrote it as an indictment of indi
vidualism.'
Lord Morley, in his biography of
Gladstone, deliberately omitted n di-
rect treatment OF the religious aspect
OF Gladstone's life. d. G. Lathbury has
been engaged for some years on the
preparation of a complementary study
which will bear the title, The Relig.
ious Life of William Ewart Glad
stone
The English are not alone in their
desire to stamp out the plague of i'm
proper books. In Vienna the other
day the police swOoped down upon
some thirty thousand volumes in one
shop and carried them off for destruc-
ton. The result has been a renewed
plea for s~tricter supervision of the
books placed upon public sale.
Mark Twain before his return to
Bermuda said: My active work in
this life and for this world is done. |
shall write nc more books, attempt no
more lectures or new work. | have
half a dozen unfinished books that l
have hardly touched in three years.
Among them is my autobiography, Of
which loo, 900 words have been writ
ten. There are still 500, 900 to write"
A new book by Newman Smyth,
D. D., will be published early this
spring. The title is Modern Belief in
Immortality" and the book gives a
compact but exceedingly suggestive
and Illuminating discussion of the
foundations for a belief in immortali-
ty and particularly of the new reasons
for that belief, drawn from the scien-
tific discovery and research of to-day,
which have supplanted the older ar
guments.
DR.. Charles w. Eliot has been en-
abled to prevent the University EX-
tension Library from duplicating his
Harvard classics. 1T is to be regret
ted" says the Publishers Weekly,
that any publisher should e~ndeavOr
to pirate DR.. Eliot's idea, to the bene-
fit Of which he is fully entitled, and it
is well that Justice Newburger has
found it quite possible under the New
York statute against the use Of a
name or picture without the owners
consent for commercial purposes, to
give him effectual protection. The de-
cision certainly makes for firmer
ground for equity in the book trade
In the eighteenth century as to-day
your poet sometimes gave himself up
to rueful reflections on the market
value Of his wares. In q letter Of Cow
per's lately sold at auction, occurs this
references: Il am no very good arith-
metician, yet | calculated the other
day in my morning walk that my two
volumes at the price Of three guineas
will cost the purchaser less than the
seventh part of a farthing per line.
Yet there are lines among them that
have cost me the labor of hours" How
Cowper would have opened his eyes at
the COOLIES of money made by some
of his successors, such as Tennyson
or Kipling.
Louis Joseph Vance, author of "The
Fortune Hunter, was born in Wash
ington, D. c., in 1879, and has been a
writer of short stories and contributor
to magazines since 1901. Previous to
1907 he had written severe novels,
but in that ear THE Brass Bowl
his first big success, was brought out.
1t was followed the next year by "The
Black Bag" and since then by The
Bronze Bell and THE Pool OF
Flame" all of which have beer unusu-
ally successful. Mr.. Vance is at pres
ent in Bermuda, where he is engaged
in writing a new novel which will
probably appear under the title of mo
Mans Land"
DR.. William Edgar Cell, author Of
THE Great Wall of China" is now
leading another scientific expedition
through China. He writes to his pub
fishers: "One of the principal OBJ
jects of my return to China is to make
a study of the Americans and Euro
peans living there. l want to ascer-
tain as far as I can just what influ-
ence Europeans and Americans have
had on their latter day history. wheth-
er those Americans who have settled
in China are really representative OF
our country and whether they AVE
left any impression upon the Chinese
l shall visit every province
of China, travelling from end to end
Of the vast country and searching for
new material by which I hope to make
Americans understand more fully what
a remarkable and interesting country
the Celestial Kingdom really is"