The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-08-07
REVIEWS.
BY REX.

Irwin Berlin, the famous COM
poser of rag-time songs. has given
to the public some of the best COM
positions of the day.
We, have enjoyed the execution
of Alexander's Rag Time Band"
by Prof. Webb; we listened with
rapt pleasure to the rendering of
When the Midnight Choo- Choo
Leaves for Alabam," by the prison
orchestra; but when we become ac-
quainted with the facts that this
genius, Irwin Berlin, laboring un-
der handicap of inability to COM
pose in more than one key, and
with absolutely no musical educa-
ton, we deem it marvellous, for the
songs of today that are pronounced
as popular hits by the public are
from the pen Of this young man.
Read in the August Green Book
Rennold VOLTS description OF the
unusual personality of Berlin, and
how he labors through the mid
night hours grinding out the latest
craze of the day.
The Popular Magazine is a well
come, and an at all times interesting
periodical to the lovers of fiction.
The August number contains, as
usual, up-to-date stories by such
authors as Roy Norton, Robert
Welles Richie, Howard Fielding
and Charles r. Barnes. The new
novel of Norton's has all the charms
of his Alaskan tales. though the
setting is altogether different.
Threads is its title, and it carries
a gripping interest.
Conclusive results worked out in
physiological, astrological and bio
logical departments of the John
Hopkins school, pertaining to the
preservation of living tissues, proves
more than astonishing when we
read Charles F. Oursler's article en-
titled, On the Borderland of
Death" in the August Technical
World.
He clearly illustrates the manner
in which frogs, reptiles and rats
are frozen in liquid air and, after
subsection to this treatment for
many months, are resuscitated, and
as he says: like the good children
in fairy books, they live happy ever
afterwards" Also, how the tails of
rats are sliced off and placed in re-
frigerating jars, and weeks after.
when taken out, have been grated
on to other rats, whose extremities
have just been amputated, and the
once frozen tails have grown just as
fast, as if they, too, had just been
cut off.
The works of Oursler we find are
always entertaining and instructive,
but his latest on this new aspect is
exceptionally good.
The writing of reviews is not
hard or arduous task, rather a
pleasant duty to one who has the
time and inclination. / have been
asked to fill this column but owing
to my desire to master the perplex-
ing problems of the art preserva-
tive,o I find it necessary to devote
my leisure hours to the study of
same.
There is a man confined here,
whose writings of the past have
proved that he possesses more than
ordinary ability in writing enter
tainingly on many subjects. His
copy at all times was we'll above
the mediocre and like his personal
| ity, well-liked.
We hope that he will soon again
join the brotherhood of scribes and
likewise relieve us of filling this
column. Blackstone where are
you?
Clean literature is just as much
an asset toward right living as clean
thoughts, and the recent convictions
of several editors who persistently
carried columns of putridism is but
another proof that society is resolv-
ed to at least eliminate evil by wip-
ing out the cause.