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ANDREW CARNEGIE'S
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grubber with an overweening vanity.
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ist and always a man desirous of doing
something to Improve the world. When
he was thlrt.v-thrco years old with an
lncomo of $00,000 a year he wrote a
memorandum in which ho set down his
determination to retire from active busi
ness at the one of thirty-five; spend
some time at Oxford University in get
ting nn education and then buy a mag
azine or newspaper in London, which
he would devoto to advocating the bet
terment, of tlicvorlci. Events made it
Impossible to carry out this purpose.
Ills interests from his early youth were
Intellectual as well as commercial.
While he was n telegraph messenger in
Pittsburgh he -got access to the library
of a generous man who wished to help
working boys, nnrt tho books he read
were Uancroft's, History of the United
States, Macaulay's Essays and His
tory of England, and ho says ho found
great delight in Lamb's Essays. This
is not the kind of reading usually so--lected
by fiftcen-yerfr-old boys. A year
or two later ho began to road Shakes
peare. When ho was a mau grown and
was making n tour around the world he
tcad Confucius in Chinu, and in India
he read the KuddhNtle books and Zo
roaster. Ho founded libraries, he says,
in order to give other boys the oppor
tunities to get the cdficatlou which was
) denied Iilm in his youth.
He tells how he became superin
tendent of the Pittsburgh division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad nt the age of
twenty-four; how he entered the busi
ness of making iron and of how in later
years Jay Gould offered to buy n con
trolling interest In tho Pennsylvania
Railroad and make him its president.
Ho tells also of the Homestead striku
and tho mistakes made by his. partners.
and be. expresses his confidence that If
he had been in the country the strike
would not have occurred. Ho refutes
the charge mnde at the time that ho hid
himself in Scotland to escape the trou
ble and says that he wanted to come
back, but that his partners most strcn
uouslv nbicctcd.
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appeared in a chapter devoted to a
discussion of the problems of labor. He
nays: "My experience is that you can
always rely upon the great body of
workingmen to do what is right, pro
vided they hove not taken up n position
and promised their leaders to stand by
them. But their loyalty to their lead
ers, even when mistaken, is something
to make us proud of them. Anything
can bo done with men who have- this
feeling of. loyalty within them. They
need only to bo treated fairly."
He gives several Instances in which
fair treatment prevented trouble In his
stool mills, and other instances In which
an appeal to the men to respect their
contracts was successful.
The book is likely to take Its place
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WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER'S
"THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY"
Some Reflections on What me Art Is and Should Be Suggested
by the Discussion of an Expert
t
Dy FELIX E. SCIIELLING
rrofnsor of Enillsh I.lttruture In the University of PeansilTauU
IT MIGHT bo difficult to find a more
attractive subject than this, tho art
of biography, not a mere enumeration
of that enormous eotegory of books,
those written about other people, but u
talk on the manner, the nature, the art
of tho thing. Delivered originally In the
shape of lectures on the Harbour-Page
Foundation at tho University of Vir
ginia, Mr. William Roscoe Thayer hos
contrived to give to his little book the
charm that belongs to the familiar essay
whilo losing none of tho meat of a
topic not to .Tjc mooted cxcpt on tho
basis of a 'scholarship both broad and
sound.
BIOGRAPHY is In n sense an out
growth of history ; and without cavil
be it said that biography Is always close
in its allegiance to fiction. Historians
arc still much agog over the momentous
question how to write history. Is the
narrative ot a scries ot events, or the
narrative of a man's lifo, to be regarded
In the nature of a map or in the nature
of n picture? Do we rend the past as
we lay out a journey, the clilet object
being that we may find our path and
not go astray nt tho wrong turning?
Or should we read, somcwhnt nt least,
as many would prefer to walk or to
ride abroad, for beauty and significance
of scene and the exhilaration of motion?
In a .map you can Identify this village
and that hillside and determine with
accuracy the relations of tho topography
of the country at large. In a picture you
lose most of these particularities, but
In place you have light and shadow and
atmosphere out of which comes tho rec
ognition of reality. Mr. Thayer has
somo valuablo pages on what might
bo called the three volume modern
statesmen series of biographies, in which
vntlcty of "life" the map is meticul
ously drawn in every petty and trivial
detail and the subject Is seen us in a
glnss darkly. The ease of Mrs. Charles
Klngsley's life of her eminent husband
should be kept in mind by those who,
under the stress of example and for hire,
write long lives. She reduced her two
volume book to one and It Is surprising
how much was gained in the reduction.
T HAS been suggested above that bi
ography is closo iu its nature to
fiction. This last Is one of those
troublesome words which can hardly be
employed without a double or a three
fold meaning, -lo ten a tniug which
never happened as it it hud actually
occurred may bo either art or false
hood. It may be both. DcFoe is credited
with an unexcelled power in "grave
and imperturbable lying." Hut DeFoo
was likewise on artist ; and many nn
occurrence of the novelists', the dra
matists' or the poets' fiction, though
never an nctual fact, is truer In the
large than are often the recurring falsi
ties of life. The old-fashioned histor
ians, Thucydides and Livy, always put
a line rhetorical speech into the mouths
of leaders before the sounding of a
charge. This is sometimes very absurd,
but when, as often In tho former of these
great writers, these speeches and their
like in other situations arc nicely cal
culated to reveal tho personality of the
sneaker, his point of view on the oc
casion and the like, wc have art, not
lying., Such outworn methods biograph
ical are scarcely as reprehensible ns
our weary marshaling ot all tho
facts," with the result of a wooden
Imago Instead of the portraiture of a
man.
WE-
THAYER'S long experience us
historian nnd his distinguished
success ns well In the writing of biog
raphy give to his words in appraise
ment and on tho practice of his art a
peculiar authority. It is good, there
fore, to hove our faith in tho pre-eminence
of Plutarch's "Lives" for .an
tiquity and Doswcll's "Johnson" for
our own day so unmistakably reaf
firmed. It is better still to have our
own somewhnt nebulous arguments on
these subjects so ably nnd authorita
tively re-cnforccd. We hear from the
Shakespcareans that Plutarch alone of
nil his sources was the one which
Shakespeare could not better at nil
times; and that" despite the fact thai
the old dramatist read his life of Caesar
and of Mnrc Antony only lu nn Eng
lish translation of a French transla
tion of a Latin translation of a Greek
original. When wo add to this that
Plutarch himself wrote long after th"
waning of "the glory that was Greece"
and "tho grandeur that was Koine,"
the freshness of his material, its vitality
and power become the greater marvel.
Mr. Thayer finds, among much else,
that Plutarch's power lies largely In
his defining each of his personages wltn
a daylight clarity, In the circumstance
that he was u great und wholesome
moralist and in his coming into his art
Mnc. vttriel untie ntt fanitre nermltq Vtllt
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Fiction
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CHILDREN OV STORM. ily Ida Wylie.
?ieV. OTK. UUMn 1.UI1B -U.
rnn marrlaire out of one's social class he
,,-.Hifurf The author endeaors un an
swer In her interesting novol.
STRONQER THAN HIS SKA. ily Rohe-t
Watsou. iew ura; ucurau ii. ljuimii
Co
ph. tnrv of ii boy and man who from
earliest ears loumi mniacii me iiutii'ifi-tu'
family to nis mowifr umj ,1111-10, i Mro-
mt jtory with it nulnt charm.
HAMUKL I.YI.K. CKTMINOUKHHT. llv Ar-
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ru'srlnatlnc story on Sherlock Holmes
Inductlvo lines
Ol.U RKLIAUI.B IN AKniCA. Ily Harris
Dickson. New York: V. A. Stokes.
Judiie. uiCKson inaea nts laminar uaray
hern to hlv native continent, vher his ad
ventures are mirthful.
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This clever and observant writer has pro-
.liip.l nn arresting novel about the renl
American small town. The heroine Is the
town doctor's wife. Her struggle Is to suf
fuse village, commonplaceness with beauty
and courage.
JAN. ny M. Morgan Cllbbon. New York:
Doubleday, I'ase & Co.
The fetching chronicles of it willful, unei
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How he nnds himself and the girl who la
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"What makes u successful wife!" this
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nuory with an Interesting romance.
THE rtOMANTIO,
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The story of an Englishwoman, hv all
the tendencies of her natlro n, "realist " an I
tho effect on her life of a man after whom
the book Is named "The Romantic
Juvenile
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PROFESSOR SCIIELLING
most happily before tho world bad
turned to Introspection and becomo more
interested in how one thing becomes
something olso than in either thing in
ltscn.
TO MEDIEVAL biography the au
thor gives no disproportionate space.
His words of Eginlmrd's "Life of Char
lemagne" Invite us back to that im
portant, but forgotten, bit of biography,
whjch is conspicuous among biograph
ical writings for its artistic brevity. In
three famous works the author finds
medieval tilncrniiliv "T.H typified ' t'mv
are Do Joluvillu's life of the saintly
knight, l.ouis l., the bcuutilu .al
truistic "Florettl or Little Flowers"
of Saint Frnncis and the "Imitation of
Christ," thut notable tractate on tho
pressing question "How shall I bavc
my own soul?" Another source for
Shakespeare, Cavendish's "Life of
Cardinal AVolsey," bridges lis over by
way of Hoper's "Life of Sir Thomas
More," and Izoak Walton's delightful
"Lives." to modern times. To voice u
personal taste, I could wish thut there
had been more room for autobiography,
though that is reull.v a very different
subject; and I miss two important and
favorite old books, the omission of
which I confess none the less might bo
readily defended. They arc Fillk Grev
lllo's so-called. "Lifo of Sir Philip
Sidney," which Is a "life" nnd likewise
a creat deal more, and tho delcetnble
"Autobiography" of Lord Herbert of
Chcrbury.
fN MODEUN biography this little
'-'book Is exceedingly suggestive. It
lias always been a matter of wonder
that the greatest of all English biog
raphers, James Hoswell, should have
been the coxcomb that ho was, and the
contrasted portraits of Doswcll as drawn
respectively by Macnulay and by
Carlylo have been time out of mind
mntter of comment. Doswell was n
coxcomb, but n sheer fool docs not
write tho greatest biography In the
Euglisli language. Doswell is often nc
credited with being the first biographer
to document his ense and let tho subject
tell his own story. This is not quite
wholly true nnd when Dr. Johnson did
tell his own story in his "Autobiog
raphy," he mnde a poor list of it. Dos
well was really a splendid literary artist
endowed with n marvelous sense of pro
portion, howsoever some have said that
lie did not know a triviality as such
when ho suw one. And again, Doswell
wns In love with his subject, and the
wit. the learning, the odd nnd distin
guished personality of the great Cham
of letters made him a peculiarly happy
subject for minute portruiture. These
are some of tho reasons why Doswell
will outlive tho biography of that
greater man, Cnrlyle, told malevolently,
if not dishonestly, by Frond, or other
notable "lives," such as that of Tenny
son relnted by his son or that of Scott
by Lockhart, a son-in-law, admirable
ns this latter assuredly is. Relatives
tire congenltally too near to view a
biographical subject in a true perspec
tive. There should be a law against the
dragging out of any inun's lares and
penotes by such as ovcrloved or over
envied him. To that last phrase of tho
biographical sketch, "ho was happy even
In his death." Is to be ndded another,
"raru as violets in winter'. snow,"
"Ho was blessed in his biographer."
THi: ART OF lllOOIlArHY. Ily William
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REVEI-VTlpNS OF UJlMHli llv A'bert
Crockett New York: F A rilok.a Co
A striking hook on rsjchl? phenomena hv
k former newspaper man ut this elty .mil
New iota.
'""vJ.V.H'.'hI .J'", Alexander 1,lol(- '
Yolk: II. W. I'uehsch.
A puent. translated Into fren urse by
Ilabetto Damsel) and Abraham Yarniol!mKj.
by one of tho most notable, of thi Slavic
writers, distinguished, for his mysticism and
his sense of folk feeling. It should be read
y.iat,.l,Lh0"xn,u'.r,A"!1 .'" temporary verse
makllng. The translators supp y an appre
ciative and keen Introduction.
COLLECTED FRUITS OF OCCULT TEACH
!?.- lv.A. P.Slnnett. rhlladelDhhi
Philadelphia:
J. 11. LlDDlncntt r.n
An authoritative work, on theosophlca) lit
ture oy a 1 oted satant and Investigator.
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Mifflin CoAWr'C"- " -loiwfflSn
Trie reminiscences of the widow of the
noted New England poet,
TWENTY KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN HONCIS
inllectnl and nrramted by Loralna w.
Oliver liit.onco. ,"0CKW'' "".ton:
lh?UJrKin".W Co1fttr.miS.f 5SJ." P2VK i".
UW'.WJSriAK'W'i'yh.havelaifirdoiiS
ofthemSre balIad".oVm rfh'dioubTi.
represent the survival of ancient balladry
among a mountain folk Uiat bo bail? a
many respects tp their EltiTabethaiV and Jl
cobean jmMfor .whi'crat Vamrf to th nw
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HOWELLS STUDIES
RURAL SOCIOLOGY
And in Doing It Produces a
Novel That Justifies the
Fame. He Won
Tho old saying that there can be no
disputing about taste referred to mat
ters of liking nnd not to matters of
coh'dnet. If n man likes a florid neck
tie, that concerns him nlonc. If a
woman wears n large hat because she
likes largo hats, no one need question
her. Dut " one l rude In mnnners it
concerns all one's friends. These re
flections nre suggested by the action
of tho lato William Dean Howells In
withholding from publication till nftcr
M ,lenth a novel he wrote twenty years
,ngo merely because he did not think it
good taste to prim u enruer nome oi
tho characters in it nre saiu to do
drawn from real people. He did not
wish to Uiirt'tucir feelings ny nnving
their nmlnblo weaknesses exhibited nt a
time when thev might be recognized.
This Is why "The Vacation of the Kel
wyns," written in 1000 nnd put in type
In 1010, has not seen the light till the
autumn oi ihu.
The novel was produced when How
ells was nt tbe height of his powers.
His art hod developed and mellowed,
and his observation liad broadened and
his tolerance hnd grown tender when
he wrote tho book. All this Is mani
fested in it. It Is a work of art so
perfect thot the reader forgets that
there is any art in it. The story is told
With a simplicity and a directness nnd
a calmness that arc refreshing. It is
refreshing, too, to read a novel in which
there nro no cabarets nnd no jazz bands
nnd no ncurnsthenlc females experi
menting with life. There wns none of
this sort of thing in the period when
tho action tnkes place. Thls was in the
ntimmpp nf 1R7fl. Tho TvplwvrtM nre col
lege people. The husband is a lecturer
on sociology In a New England college.
He has a wife and two small boys. The
family leases u farm from the Shakers
in southern New Hampshire and plan n
nlcasant vacation, with n farmer and
his wife looking nftcr the crops und the
household arrangements.
Tho problem which Mr. nowclls con
siders Is the adjustment of a professor
of sociology more than forty ycurs ago
to the sociological facts of rural New
England. The professor does not ad
Just himself very well. This is done
more successfully by Elihu Emernncc,
a young man with dreams of doing
various things, who happens Into the
community. lie understands the coun
try people much better thau they arc
understood by ICelwyn, though ho pro
fesses to no expert knowledge of sociol
ogy. His understanding comes from
the fact that ho regards them as humnn
beings, which Kelwyn canuot do. The
professor, sprung from u farm the same
as Emeraneo, bus so far forgotten his
enrly lite that ho regards the country
folk as belonging to n different order
of beings. Hut Emeraneo, with a kind
ly tact, helps Iilm over many hard
places nnd in n gentle way preaches
what Is apparently the social philosophy
of the author. He is a most interesting
creation or portrait. One cannot help
wondering whether it was ho or Kelwyn
or both who was modeled on a real
man. and who the man wns. ,
The love story of Emernncc and a
cousin of the Kclwyns Is told most
charmingly. It begins quickly, but Is
slow In progressing. The girl's feeling
that Emeraneo is socially beneath her
holds her back, and the modesty of
Emernncc prevents him from making
any attempt to force himself upon her.
The proposal 'and acceptance nre so
dlllercnc irom iiic usual iiciionai iorm
' that they convince the render of their
historical accuracy. This phrno is
used advisedly because tho book im
presses the reader not ns fiction, but as
the telling of things that actually hap
pened and iu just the way they came
to pass.
The book will confirm the verdict
long since reached that Mr. Howells
was n novelist, of rare distinction and
deserved the place he held in American
letters. '
TUB VACATION OF' THE KELVYNH. An
Idyl of the Middle Kluhtetn-Scvulitles. Niw
York: Harper & Ilros.
Boys Like Altsheler
Tho Indian stories of thut master
writer for boys, Joseph A. Altsheler.
appear to be maintaining their very
great popularity undiminished, for D.
Appleton & Co. announce the twelfth
edition of "Tho Uillcinen of the Ohio."
the seventeenth edition of "The Young
Trailers. " the tenth edition of "The
Texan Star." the sixth editlou of "The
Keepers of the Trail" and the fifth edi
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Hergeshelmer In Braille
Joseph Ilersesheimer's story. "The
Thrush in the Hedge" (from his vol
ume, "Tho Happy End"), is being done
into Draille type for tho blind by the
American Library Association under the
direction of Miss Ge.-trudo Hhler ut the
Library of Congress.
world, Iloth words nnd music, In piano ar
rangement, nre kIvoji
MAN'S UNCONSCIOUS PASSION. Ily Wll
ft lil Lay. New York- Dodd .Mend & Cu
Examines objectively and pragmatically
tho passion men (till lute.
SPECULATION AND THE CHICAlltl HOARD
OF TRADE. Ily Jnmes Whtfo. New
York. Tho Maeinlllnn Co. v
A straightforward buslenss-llke study und
a lucid ueiount of the advantages of specu
latlou. THE NEW WORLD. Hy Frank Comerford
New York. IJ. Appleton A.Cti. "'""lora-
A searching study of unrest In Europe a
forecast of thi new world and a solution of
the problem of capital vs. labor. au,u"tn ol
THE VIEW VERTICAL. Hy Winifred Kirk.
land. IKratun: Houghton Mifflin Co
Ltsuys that can make tho readrr .mui.
taneously smile and think. They have a
MIV tll.j4V llU,
THE CAUSE (IF WORLD UNREST Ww
Tout! I, ) Tutnam's Sons. w
, This remarkable, book dwt rlbes with ni
historic detail an .alleged far-tiathl ," slnTs
ti-r ruiisiilrnct looking toward world 1I01V1I11.T
l'.1?.".' inie publishers declaim uavris A '
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CLOTHINO. Uy Me.rv Woolman. Phll.ri.i
Phln- J. 11 Llpplncott Co, n"lel-
The choice, care and cost aro discussed by
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SONUS OF THE TRAIL Uy Herbert Knli.h.
Huston, llnuahtnn MPrriln iSI""" KMbbs.
HnBt!ffirt??u"hl,n"1" POCma "' me" ""lure
CA8TINO TACK LB AND METHODM n
KI.I.I ' m""' l',BC"'i"HtS5r. "i
A valuable book fur the angler
THE RURAL COMMUNITY, llv v-..... .
S mi. New York. I'lin-lV; JTT.""
Cn- ..., (KB
Scrlbner'a
subject, both ancient and modern phases i,1
Ing discussed. The author Is profes.nr ,,
Coire?l0"":' '" Mu,8ttcllu" ArSrlc"uura
ON THE TRACK OF THE TRAni-i r,
Lewi. Freeman. New'Vork: ftftlSi ,?S
envVpateu'r y&.T he
THE SECRET OF XVERYDAY Tllivrm
tuVco"' "w-fw York: Th.(S5:
T,ns S"..1 French scientist's obseriiin.
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Booth Tarklngton In Leather
Doubleday, tngo & Co. hftvo Just is
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gam. ."The Guest of Quenay, .'Xho
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tnor. anil pu iiisn tne uook. they explain mi
he extraon Inary furore It has create j on
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