The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-04-09

IS one might say. an official account,
al moving and dramatic as it is ac- |
cula1e OF the Equal Suffrage activities !
IN the England Of h last decade.
John A. IomaA Of the University !
OF Iexas, whose volume of cowboy
ballads has become practically the
onclal guide to hose little known
songs, has prepared a new volume to
De known as plantation Ballads"
which will be published by Double
day, Page & Co.
These songs will be real negro folk
songs that have been handed down
from generation to generation since
the earliest slave times. Both words
and music will be given. There nave
been many publications Of negro bal
lads, but they usually have been
brought up to the standard of literary
merit tina the compiler considered
appropriate. This volume will con
tain the weird melodies and strange
snperstitions exactly as they have
been sung on thousands of plantations
Tor scores Of years.
Mr.. Lomax has just been elected
President Of the American Folk Lore
Society.
The question why Should We
Change our Form OF Government?"
which is the name Of the first and
title essay in a series Of Studies in
Practical Politics." by Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia
University. refers to such schemes Of
direct popular rule as the Referen-
dunn. Initiative. Recall and the gov
ornamental control of corporations.
These were the topics discussed by
Theodore Roosevelt in hts Columbus
speech. President Buffers argument
traverseS the same ground as did the
COlonefS. It takes up the same
topics almost point by point. main
tanning another view from that ad-
vanced by MIR. Roosevelt. In the 9TH
er essays of the vOlume-Business and
Politics. Politics and Business. the Call
to Citizenship, Alexander Hamilton.
The Revolt Of the Unft-Questions
such as those centering about the
Sherman Antitrust Law. which are
to be critical issues of a critical presi
dental campaign. are thoroughly
analysed from q practical standpoint
, The Putnams will publish in April
a new edition. entirely reset. Of "Eve
Triumphant" by Pierre de Coulevain
author Of con the Branch and The
l Unknown Isle" This novel ha:
[ gained the m~uch-coveted title Of be
ing crowned by the French Academy
7 1t is the story Of two American WON
) en- in Europe and Of the experience:
, to which unconventionality subject!
/ them. h book is Immensely en-
t~ertaining and is sure to pleas
American readers as much as it dit
= the AcademicianS. It sparkleS witt
! cleverness and holds the attention
l strongly. It made something Of
e sensation when it first appeared 1
/ Paris; the American colony was par
%ticularly excited over it, for the por
I trait seemed to be painted from life
and from the life Of hat colony. I
: hits Off American characteristics wit
a clever touch.
y The books on topics OF great cur
S rent Observation-Disclosures Respon
sibility and Social Constraint" an
"SugsestlOn and Psychotherapy'-
d were published by the Scribners 0
" March 23rd. The first. by the lat
e DR.. Ray Madding Mcconnell Of Hal
l. ward University. IS a thorough an
penetrating study Of the Whole que;
ie ton Of crime in all It's legal and SC
,e cia! aspects. It is divided into thre
D., parts-'The Aim Of Punishment
g. "Freedom in Crime" and "Respons
n bility for Crime" The second is b
~ the noted New York neurologist, D
George W. Jacoby. In it he pop:
larizes for the intelligent laynan
n subject about which every one is tail
& ing. but which is as intricate as it
10 important. He asserts 1.-The inf1uent
to of the mind in the causation and cul
o. of disease but his conclusions vii
regard to this influence are bast
40 purely on scientific facts. analyzed AZ
MS argued with impartiality.
It. --
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., are ju
st having to print DR.. George
is Haynes Election Of Senator's {
1k the american Public Probe
or Series" edited by Ralph Curtis Rim
IN waltz for the fourth time. 1t is n
we unlikely tina the question of the
an direct election may be featured in t
he platform of one or both of the gre
parties in the coming campaign.
Of -
~, William T.. Dodd's statesmen
eSs the Old South is characterized
up Theodore Roosevelt as "a really mas