Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Fame Found Him in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Fame Found Him in Africa.

Prof. Henry Drummond, the author of that remarkably successful book, “Natural Law in the Spirit World,” is a man of a slight and intellectual type, with a splendid head. He has a wonderfully magnetic influence over his students. His most lamous book first appeared serially in a journal which soon died, the chapters not having attracted mu -h attention, and the writer feeling “a 1 ngering remorse at what share I might have had in its untimely end. ” Then, the Bookman says, “two leading London publishers were offered the book and declined it. The author had resolved never again to be seived with the black seal of literature an i put the doomed sheets back in their pigeonholes. Mr. H. M. Hodder, however, read the papers in their serial lorin, and proposed their publication to the author, who rewrote his pages in mu h haste, corrected his proofs and started for Africa. He heard nothing of his fate for five months’ travel, during which ho never saw a letter or newspaper, and, engrossed with a geological and botanical survey, he forgot his venture completely. One night, an hour after midnight, three black messengers from the north end of Lake Nyassa disturbed his camp and delivered the hollow skin of a tiger-cat with a small package of letters and papers. Among them he found a copy of the Spectator containing a review of his book, which remains to h : m ‘among the mysteries of literary unselfishness and charity.' "