Arizona republican., 1914-06-21

class of people, but Uncle Toms Cabin has been, is and will be for
 some time to come read by old and
 young of all classes. Mrs. Stowe
 would never be considered by the critics as a maker of American Lit | erature but she has won fame by pouring out her heart in behalf of
 cause and doing it effectively. Even
 we of inferior ability to criticise do not think. of Uncle Toms Cabin as
 characteristic of American Literature
 but we appreciate it and learn with
 pleasure that the book was translated into more than twenty languages, including Welsh. Even Dickens and Scott were not translated into Welsh. | Another woman who was active with her pen during Civil War times 1 was Julian Ward Howe who although i she wrote a great deal and was in 1 terested and active in all social and philanthropic work of her time is remembered as the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the 1 coming of the Lord
 He is trampling out the vintage where
 the grapes of wrath are stored,
 He has loosed the fatal lightning 1 with his terrible swift sword, 1 His Truth is marching on.
 | The air was originally heard in the
 south and set to the words of John i Browns Body. While on a visit to ; Washington, Mrs. Howe watching review of the troops to this music received an inspiration. Next morn | ing at dawn she wrote this most famous of war songs. She was never weary of well doing and at the age of ninety could say, The deeper l drink of the cup of life the sweeter l it grows-the sugar is all at the bot tOm.P
 We look back now with amusement at the works of Mrs. Southworth and | Augusta Evans Wilson but at one time they were widely and eagerly read. The critics, of course, decried them, but the critics can not rule
 the reading public; so, in spite of | the too frequent reference to remote l learning, Mrs. Wilson became so pop ular that when St. Elmo was pub 1 lished in the early seventies, towns, hotels, steam boats and plantations | were named for the pedantic hero of 1 her book. | We must not forget to mention Louisa M. Alcott, author of Little Men and Little Women" and The ] Old Fashioned Girl" Miss Alcott was native of Pennsylvania, but grew up at Concord, Massachusetts with the children of Emerson, Hawthorne and Charming.
 | It is pleasing to note how the style of the novel has changed. Instead of the goody, goody character and the william, we have the clean, sweet pure characterization of human be- ings. Instead of the ideal, we have
 the real In former years, it was not uncommon for books to be published which were unfit for children to read
 or hear. Even women writers stoop-
 ed to tales of immoral relations or descriptions of debaucheries, claim
 ing it showed strength to be able to
 depict such things. Thank God that
 season has passed and there is very
 little that is widely read that cannot
 be placed in the hands of the young. | For this conditions of things, We are l indebted to such well known writers as Kate Douglas Wiggins, Mary E. 1 Wilkins Freeman, Grace $. Richmond
 and Elnore H. Brainard.
 1 What could be more wholesome 1 than "Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm?
 A little story setting forth the trials
 and pleasures of Rebecca's life in
 an appealing and readable way. A story which might be a description
 of any girls actual life. "Mothery l Carey's Chickens" is one of those stories in which not only children
 but older people revel with secret delight. The children are natural
 wholesome, and happy and set in
 conditions to bring out the best that is in them. They learn restraint, | fectly natural way.
 Grace $. Richmond has become famous through her "Juliett Stories, | The 24th of June' and Red Pepper | Burns" While these are written for older people, they are clean and
 wholesome as stories for older chil-
 dren should be, and are most entic- ing.
 l Among the best known writers of 1 short stories are Mrs. Mary E. Will kins Freeman and Mrs. Sarah Orme Jewett. Hamilton w. Maybe, our
 most generous critic, says Mrs. Jew
 ett's stories will go among the class
 ics which will appeal to those desir- l ing to know American character. I There is much truth in fiction as \ in fact and as much history in novels as in records of events. A few such | novels serve to vitalize the early or l later story of American life. Among the best of these written by women. are The Tory Lover," written by Mrs. Jewett; ITO Have and To Hold and Prisoner of Hope" by Mary
 Johnston, "A Bow of Orange Ribbon
 by Mrs. Barr and Mrs. Austin's New
 England Colonial Stories" All of
 Miss Johnston's books have been
 successful and have brought her fame. She has the power to bring
 before us remote historic events and
 so make them live that we read the
 books with the keenest delight. She has thus been able to establish a standing for herself which will en-
 dure. Lewis Rand" is considered
 her strong book. Other Southern
 writers are Grace E. Ring, Mrs. Ruth
 McEmery Stuart.
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