The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-07

forth Of the bill Of fare must. one /
would think, have reached lis height
in q volume whose readers now sell :
dom pass the formidable title page.
luna Nature
In Its
Tourfold State
Of
Primitive Integrity,
Entire Deprivation.
Begun Recovery. <
lonSumfnate Happiness
or Misery
SubsistinS In
The Parents Of Mankind
in Paradise,
The Inregenerate,
The ~Resenerate,
All Mankind in
The Future State.
In Several
Practical D~iScourSeS
BY the eminently pious and learned
MIR. Thomas Boston,
While this would seem an excess Of
honesty, causing one TO inquire with
koSalind if it is possible to have too
much Of a good thing this style Of
title has its decided advantages. Con-
s'der the uncertainty Of mind in
which many recent writer's leave rs
BY their labelling of their books. The
serious student Of affairs might very
reasonably take up The Portion of
Labor" expecting to find d discussion
OF profit-shafing and the relation Of
employer to employee, to find Instead
= New England novel. And the in
veterate novel reader might as ma
turally expect The Nalor of Ignor-
ance' to be the usual love story if
he has not read the book reviews
, which warn him that it is a discus
sion Of the tinted MATES unprepared-
ness for war. One might multiply
instances Of recent books whose titles,
II they do not mislead, at least throw
no light on the contents: Fathers
Of Men "The Jungle Where the
t Money Grows" The Winning of The
! West OF course in the light OF
after knowledge We see-that is, We
r usually See-Where the connection
r comes in. but we must read the book
} 70 find h the title is about.
, 1t might SEEM indeed, to 6 literal
minded person that naming books
has come to be an exercise in in
= Senuity. a new puzzle contest. Z
bright idea strikes the gleeful author
who exclaimS All. there's a It'll.
o will set them guessing" And, come
u to think Of it. that is. OF course, his
purpose-to set rs guessing. off te
n the book store and iind b it i:
t about anyhow. We live in an age-o,
n advertising lodges.
For solne years noveliSts name(
their books simply. introducing thei1
heroes 10y name, and very plain name!
at that: tom Jones, "Peregrln'
PICKLE Emma" Henry Esmond,
Rob ROY" William de Morgan
a with several other revivals of goo,
a things, went back to this in JOSEPH
IS Vance No raising false eXpecta
e tons here; no Slittering casket which
is opened reveals q carrion Death. blu
re a modest announcement leaving u
If all the more pleased when We receiv
- ~. =, uc arn led ~ ~ To
!, often we have found the title NOR
interesting than the book, and g
gOodly outside" nan times has en-
/. closed what someone called 9TH
20 neurotic, the erotic, and the Tommy
rCtic."
IL the last few years it has bee
the fashion to use scraps Of quota
DC tons as titles. Then If the reade
Is is clever enough to remember, or in
III dnstrious enough TO hunt down tn
IS whole quotation, he has presumabl
40 the theme of the book. Mrs. Edit
o. Wharton has taken her very efectiV
titles from the Bible: The Valley {
ed Decision." The House Of Mirth,
"The I'ruit of the Tree" Willial
Dean HoNells used a comfortably f.
niliar phrase in "Throush the Fly
Of the Needle as did William ALE
White in "A Certain Rich Man Mi!
~ Cholmondeley was one Of the fir
~ to make use of the Bible in h
Red pottase.' Then there W:
o. Israel Zangwills The Mantle
Elijah Many Waters" one of MI
III Deland's short stories, illustrates esp
r;oI1v we'll that one must know II
N. Whole ouotatjon to see a connectif
Of hetuaen tifla and theme: MANY Y,
VS., ters cannot Quench love. neither &C
'ur the foods drown it. Grace Ellie
le- Channing's title. In the Cool Of Il
BIZ Dav." is explained in the story. {
on Fountain Sealed" is one of the Bib
tic names which we feel. after fniShil
he the book. to have been exquisite
Of suited TO the theme Of Anne Dough
wo Sedgwick;s unusu novel. The auth
of The Street Called Straight {
he plains his title by quoting an c
If New England proyerb. The Sire
tCaIled Straight which leads to I
- IJo,,oo called Peanrifnis Ni+ho