Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Fame Found Him In Africa. [ARTICLE]

Fame Found Him In Africa.

Prof. Henry Drummond, the author of that le mark ably successful book, “Natural Daw 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. IDs most lamous book first appeared >.enally in a journal which soon died, tlie chapters not having attracted much attention, and the writer feeling “a l.nger: i g remorse at what share I might have had in its untimely end.” Then, the Bookman says, "two leading London publishers were offere l ihe book an l deil ned it. The author had resolved nover aga'n to be sol ved with the black seal of literature an : put the doomed sheets back in their pigeonfa ios. Mr. H. M. Hodder, however, read the papers in their serial ,orin, ami proposed their publication to thb author, who rewrote his pages in mu h haste, corrected his proofs and started for Airica. He heard nothing of his fate tor live mon hs’ travel, during which lie •never saw a letter or newspaper, and, engrossed wuh a geological and botanical survey, he forgot his venture completely. One night, an hour after midmght, three blaok messengers from the north end of Lake Kyassa disturbed his camp and delivered the hollow skin of a tiger-cat with a small paokage of letters an I papers Among them he found a copy of the Spectator containing a reiew of his book, which remaius to him among the mysteries Of literary unselfishness and charity.’ ’’