Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1910 — BITS FOR BOOK WORMS [ARTICLE]

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The Roosevelt hunting trip gives dis tlnct interest to a recent" book, “In Wildest Africa;” by Peter Mac Queen. This la the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the KUlimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of the ascent of the snow fields pf. Mount Kibo in Central East Africa and a description of the various native tribes. Arnold Bennett, the English novellot, has the following to suggest about °fi* way of getting the best out of a book: “The only infallible way of getting full value and permanent Joy out of a good book is to read it twice. To read a book once is merely to savor It. Every good book will seem better at a second perusal than at the first, and the same statement applies to many volumes that Just miss being good.” Messrs. Eaton and Mains are /o pub: liah a series of short biographies oi the founders of Methodism, an effort to bring these worthies “out of bulky histories Into the light of the modern Church.” A begining has been made with the life of Francis Asbury, first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The sketch Is written by Dr. George P. Mains, and Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell supplies an introduction. One poet, at least, has come to honor in his own country. A marble bust of the Manx poet, T. E. Brown, whose delicately beautiful verse is an inalienable part of English poetry, has Just been unveiled at Douglas, In the Isle of" Man, the Speaker of the House of Keys performing that duty. The Keys adjourned for the purpose of attending the ceremony in company with the Governor, Lord Ragiauv Tt took place in the Town Hall, and the Mayor and Corporation were amoqg those who listened to the panegyric on Brown, pronounced by the aforesaid Speaker of the House of Keys. Hilaire Belloc pointed out In a recent lecture in London that In fiction there are at present two schools *n France, Maurice Bartea being at the bead of one and Anatole France at the head of the other. Barres is the leader of the "reactionary,” or religious, school of thought; he defends Catholicism in religion, and nationality in politics: Afiatole FrSfrce, on the otherhand, is a conspicuous-example of the inen who are in revolt against the clerical education of their youth. In other words Barres Is the leader of the clericals and France of the moderns. Mr. Belloc regards the situation as critical and hie sympathies are naturally SffiriiC”'"'