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

Dean c.. Worcester, secretary of the
interior of the Philippine Insular gov
eminent from 1901 to 1913, is the au-
thor of a valuable new book on the
Philippines.
This new book may be justly de-
scribed as the only really valuable. up
to-date and authoritative work OF the
Philippine Islands.
It is a work that everyone interest
ed in u insular possessions and in
the future of our nation should read,
especially as the new administration
just appointed a one more brought
up sharply the whole question of our
! policy with regard to the Philippines.
To bring home to the American peo-
pie the truth as to the situation in the
Philippines, is the primary object of
the Hon. Dean c.. Worceter's new book
On our Southern Pacific archipelago,
n this work will answer more ques-
tons on the subject than any other.
There is no greater authority On
these insular possessions than Mr..
Worcester who, as early as 1887. and
again in 1890 was a prominent member
of scientific expeditions to the islands;
from 1899 to 1901 was a member Of the
u. S. Philippine commissions; since
1901 has been secretary to the interior
to the insular government, and who in
1899 published The Philippine Islands
n Their People. a record of personal
observation and experience, with d
short summary Of the most import
ant facts in the history Of the archi-
pelago, which, has ever since been the
acknowledged standard work Of in
formation concerning the islands.
In Mr.. Worcester's valuable new
work, past n present condi-
tons are infinitely reviewed for
strict accuracy of statement.
The authors position giving
him free access to all the government
records, much of the information thus
made available. has never been made
public before. With practically unlim-
tied material on which to draw in the
way of illustrations, very fine and rare
photographs intimately related with
the text, emphasize the lessons which
they are respectively intended to
teach.
The result is a work of the greatest
Importance as we'll as of the greatest
interest to all concerned as to the fu-
ture possibilities of the Philippines
and as to the course the United States
:, government should pursue in the in
terest of the several peoples of the
islands. macmillan Co., New York;
A Popular Legend Convicted.
"Sir Edward Cook has kept his
e PROMISE" says The Boston Transcript
His life of Florence Nightingale was
we were told, to be a corrective Of the
popular account. The ommon imagin'
p alton of the famous nurse, he point:
out, was that of a girl of high degree
> who, moved, by a wave of pity, for
{ sock the pleasures Of fashionable lift
for the horrors of the Crimean war
4 There are Sir Edward points out
, "some elements of truth in the popular
legend, but it is SO remote from thu
whole truth as to convey in a genera
The real Florence Nightingale wa
g very different from the legendary, blu
v also greater. Her life was built OF
" larger lines, her work had more i'm
v portance than belongs to. the legend
What Sir Walter Cook" TIL
e Transcript explains, means by de
a claring that the popular legend is wild
s of the mark is that Miss Night1ngal
v was as. eminent an organizer and ad
d ministrator as in ministering work:
q the expression may be allowed, sh
had a masculine mind. Tt is clear
e too, from this. authoritative biograph,
IS that Miss Nightingale's work in tn
# Crimea and afterwards was the frui
e ton of plans laid long before"
According to a passage in The Biog
K raphy which Sir Edward Cook has re
d Gently puulIolCAt ~
: was a harsh critic of fiction. Speak
O ing of the novels of her day she !
b. reported to have said at one time
1.-THE novels, all novels - the best
,eJ which represent women in love wit
men without any reason at all an
ready to leave their highest occupa
lions for love are to me utterly weari
some."" Macmillan Co., New York;
MI k;+rhap IaIIv.
The first of what probably will b
# many Tagore anecdotes is related by
salesman in one of the large book
l. stores In New York City. An inquir
lie came to him, SO he affirms, on h
y honor, for a copy of Kitchen Jell
Thinking it to be an order for the at
tention of the domestic science depart
ment of his company, he referred
c. to a clerk familiar with h stock !
We that line, but no book with such
Oh title could be discovered. Upon In
5s vestigating the matter a little turtle
at the salesman discovered to his sui
is prise and amusement that what We
er wanted was one of the volumes by tf
Id Nobel prize winner, Rabindranath Ts
ut gore, which is entitled Gitanjali, ar
ss %yariously pronounced, one OF the prt
he n~unciations sounding somewhat III
Kitchen jelly.
Of In this connection it is interesting
us note that a. new supply of Gitanja
has just been received by he publish
! ers and that tWo of Tagore,s 9th