The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-13
LITERARY NOTES

Two Of the seasons biographies
now in their third printing are The
Memoirs Of Lii Hung Chang and Let
tiers and Recollections Of Alexander
Agassiz, both published by Houghton
Mifflin Co.
c. C. Carstens. secretary and general
agent for the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Chill
dren, writes as follows concerning The
Health Master, written by Samuel
Hopkins Adams and published by
Houghton Miffin Co.:
Il have e the book with keen en-
joyment. 1t gives a large amount of
most valuable information in readable
and attractive form. I am. particularly
Impressed with the value of the last
chapter entitled Plain Talk. The facts
that are there given are no longer dis
should they not be generally known?
The story in which they are cast seems
to me to deal with the questions in a
very wholesome way"
A North Carolina man, writing to a
friend, pays the following tribute to
Margaret w. Morley's new book, The
Carolina Mountains;
1T is not only a beautiful piece of
bpllA lIOLL Literary anu
artistic standpoints, but it is intense
ly interesting to us for it's adequate
descriptions of scenes, things and peo-
pie. The author knows her subject
we'll. She writes with understanding
of the virtues INC shortcomings of the
people and with full appreciation of
the rich and varied beauty of this
wonderful region. She has evidently
spent time enough to get correct in
formation r. Il n
Miss Katherine S. Dreier, the trans
lator of the Personal Recollections of
Vincent Van Gogh, originally set down
by the artists sister; Elizabeth Du
Quesnea Van Gogh, has undertaken a
much needed enterprise in establish
ing a post graduate course in mural
polychromee sculpture and other arts
connected with the decoration Of pub
lie buildings and costly houses. 1t is
akin to the schooling which the ma
! tiona1 sculptors' society have given
for two "a and the architecture
league for considerably longer. The
management of the atelier thus start
ed is in the hands of Miss Dreier, Will
liam Laurel Harris, Arthur Crisp an6
Miss Ida Proper. All Inquiries should
be addressed to Miss Proper at 81
Fifth avenue.
They were two comfortable looking
middle aged women, ordering their
breakfast at one of those huge struc.
lures that are termed family hotels
Ordering isn't exactly the word, fol
the waiter seemed thoroughly familiar
with their likes and :dislikes, and Wher
one lady, after a perfunctory glanc,
at the card, looked up at him, he muir,
INJURED. Grape fruit, Mrs. Merrill? anc
cream of wheat?" She nodded, ant
as her companion put down the menu
the waiter ventured, And yours tn,
same, Mrs. Noyes?"
The latter smiled at him, and ask
Z ed. And what after that, Barnes?
J but before the surprised man coult
answer she said:
Nov tic i had given YOU time yo,
would have said, tOh, a chop and som
fresh rolls and coffee just becaus
I've been eating that very same break
But I'm not going to do 1t any more
!. I've just finished reading The Healtl
Master-it's by Samuel Hopkins Ad
. ANS, you know him. Elizabeth-an,
he's shown me the error Of my way
land the error of yours, too, Eliza
, beth. You always have two eggs a
! breakfast, don't you? Well, TIL
. Health Master says that there's moth
, ing the matter with two eggs, O
twenty. but when you come to zoe
? there's something very obviously tn
I matter-monOtony. He says gu
stomachs arc machines but they'r
+ human machines, and demand vaFie
ty.,,
She finished hreathlessly and. turn
ing to Barnes, who had listened witt