The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07
incidents in the Life
Of a Mining Engineer"

lhbcItSb III Tue H1hUClAi CotunlttS
Of the paper for the sake Of impressing
our neighbors on the subway must con-
fess to some surprise upon reading the
I1cidents IN the Life Of a Mining En-
gineev, by e. T. Mccarthy. We had
supposed from our hypercritical reading
that England shared the general Euro
pean need of raw materials. But Mr.. Nc
Carthy's book must decidedly be classed
as the unadorned product of the mother
earth, and within its pages, as on the vast
bosom Of the great parent, there are
deserts and elysiums scattered about
amid wide stretches of mere country
The volume contains the record of ar
extraordinary life, wherein the author
In his professional capacity has trotted
practically every arid region and not
few-ef the moister areas Of this spacious
globe. He has dwelt intimately with al
most every aboriginal race now extant,
and he has faced uneounted perilous stu
atoms from the Gold Coast to Vancouve.
and thorce west. There is very little tech
meal description, but a truly Boswellian
eye for other details is revealed in his
writing. As a storehouse of facts about
the natural scenery and the human beings
Of the strange lands which Mr.. Mccarthy
has visited we recommend the book 10 all
authors present and to come. To lave
lived such life with eyes open consti-
tutes n high achievement; to relate the
events Of such a life for ones fellows is
an act Of rare generosity.
The style of the book is peculiarly the
writer's own. We will not quote lin
casually because we like him and do not
desire to injure the warmth of our ap-
probation by seeming unkindnsss. Neither
will we quarrel with him about slight in
accuracies in connection with our own
eountr,. When Mr.. Mccarthy says that
the Moonshiners were secret society
formed after the civil war we cannot
quite agree with him. When he remarks
with unconscious sapience that he has nc
doubt they still exist, we are driven to
smile behind our fan.
The student Of political science might
read Mr.. Mccarthy to his own profit In
fact, we recommend his book to the Ger
man Foreign Office as valuable tract IN
colonies and proper conduct in foreign
lands. If they desire to instruct their
consular official in Colon or Mogador or
Malacca or Montevideo, or almost any
other place mentioned in the larger At
lases, let them take form letter XXX,
which says, "For regulations regarding
conduct of consular officials and all Ger
man nationals in Z, see Chapter
:, Incidents IN the Life Of MIN
ing Engineer" The book might have
saved the German Empire if taken ir
time. As it is, it is another demonstra-
ton Of the fact that an Enghshmsn, even
if partly Irish, can be an Englishman in
any part of the known woodland get
away with it
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A MIN
ING ENGINEER. BY E. T. MCCARTHY.
L. p. Dutton & Co.
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Temple Scott and Thomas Settler. Mr..
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was for years manager of the publishing
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was with Boni & Liveright as managing
editor, iee-president and treasurer. He
has acquired reputation as a critic and
translator. Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Settler are
both interested in social and economic
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the younger men and women, whether in
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will be announced shortly.