The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-25
A BOOK TO PUT ONE
 LIVING WITH THE GREAT

hard put to 1t to live at all. Hunt, who in the real search for real truth over threw many preconceived and false ideas of religiosity and lead instead to open thought and to worship of the true and made even possible by clar- flying thought scientific progress and as the author puts it, "enormously aid cd the discovery of wireless telesraphy. and in no way damaged the prestige of the occupant of St. Peters chair"
 And to excuse this seeming paradox {: Nothing is more true than that clear ness of thought in one department of life stimulates clearness of thought in another"
 So out of realism grew pre-Ra pheal- ism. and out of truth loving study of the real grew progress
 Here we have MT. Heuffer's summing up of Millais Beginning as a lover of the real he could not stand the fierce disapproval that besets all new thought and he bent before the storm of popular opinion-in consequence, Millais, a. very gr. at painter, climbed an easy road to affluence. and died-P. R. A
 It Is rather surprising to learn that Charles Dickens "called loudly for the Imprisonment of-the pre-Raphealites- Alas, even the best leaders of time and a period, having served well In their day, are prone to forget that there is dHOllbT QdY-an0 IndI rlRlL at ndnQ- which needs it's own thought, its own change. it's own leaders. There are all ways the people, both great and small of yesterday crying out anathema to the people of today who do not heed because they really do not need-the message of yesterday.
 Here Burne-Jones and his followers and friends who invented the gorgeous glamour of madiaevalism-who must have pomegranates, pomegranates, pomegran- ates all the way
 ''There were Phillip Bourke Marston, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, B. ", Theo Marzials, Gordon flake, Christina Ros- setti, Mir Edmund Gosse, MT. Hall Caine Oliver Maddox Brown, MT. Watts Dun ton, MT. Swinburne. D. G. Rossetti, Rob ert Browningl All these names have been exceedingly familiar to my mouth and ears since I could speak or hear" These and other names MT. Heuffer makes delightfully."- familiar to his readers
 MT. Heuffer. though not yet 40, and that is far too young to begin to abuse the world of today-yet has his fling of com plaints first at the decadence of Eng fish journalsm-"Jo Journals written by shop boys for shop girls-directed by adver- Using managers for the benefit of shop keepers-a public-indifferent to leading articles" He cries aloud for the old,
 
 proof reader He wishes, but does not hope, that the flood of cheap literature may be stayed. you cannot have good literature cheaply,' our author cries; "It cannot be done, simply because the au- thor, too, has the right to live" The right to do it, perhaps, but not the might to do it by the work of his pen-unless he has the luck to hit on doing best seller. But he ceases his jeremiad to praise the growing decency and order liness of our day; the music halls mot so many years ago places for alcoholic orgies are now places to which to in- vite ladies and clergymen to accompany one"
 And of the dethronement of alcohol not by fanaticism but by science. he writes: .'The church has told us for a century or so that drunkenness was a. sin and we went on shining. But the doctor has gone abroad in the land and pronounced sternly that alcohol is bad. for the liver and now drink barley water at our clubs A book this to browse over, to read. to return Co. to find as it were fresh witticisms, newly sprung epigrams, facts of interest and fancies as it were now set before us. A book that one will be sure to take from reading desk to hammock, from today into tomorrow One of the few books of the day that one does not want to give away for good to the next good friend one meets. Many more such books would make book-misers of the most generous of us. My books" writes Mir. Heuffer. "cannot by any means be calld popular" and with most booming and unusual modesty he gives various causes to account for the ready sale of those same books "because I have a German name I am usually taken for a jew. and this has secured for me a solid body of Jewish support a great number of Roman Catholics know I am Roman Catholic though very poor one, and they support me too. I also get some support from the socialists, Who think me a socialist and some but not as much as I deserve-from suf- fargettes." So he sums up: "All the support I get comes from, these acci7 dental labels" Mir. Heuffer is by far too modest If the rest of his 37 books are like this, brimming with interest, spark ling with wit, deep with thought. flow ing with sympathy. we can only believe that the public which gives him such glad acceptance does know a good thing when 1t sees it.