Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — Book news REVIEWS [ARTICLE]

Book news REVIEWS

A “Lorna Doone” pageant is to be held next summer in the famous Valley of Flocks at Lynton, in England. In “The Mississippi River,” a book to be published, Julius Chambers has set down the history, most picturesque and romantic, of the great waterway. “Trans-Himalaya,” Sven Hedln’s chronicle in the bleak wilderness of Tibet, which has been described as the “roof of the world,” is to be brought out in German, Dutch, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Bohemian and Italian as well as in English and Swedish. A Welsh uniter, Dane, has drawn, she declares, from old Mas.' tn the abbeys' of Strata, Florida and Conway the materials for a book which she calls “Prince Madog—Tho Welshman Who Discovered America, A. D.- 1170.” Her chief object in the preparation of the work, she notes, Is to arouse Interest in and do justice to a great Welshman whose name has long been hidden In oblivion.

It is evident that Mrs. Humphrey Ward does not see in woman suffrage a solution of the divoree problem, which she has made the theme of her recent novel, “Marriage a la Mode.” The eminent writer has just been elected a member of the New York Stats Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage In company with two other well known English women. Mrs. Ward has long led the "antis” in England, while her sister, Miss Arnold, Is actively engaged oifthe other side. One of the many ways In which the growth of the suffrage movement has grown both in the United States and In England is demonstrated by the increased demand for fiction on the subject as well as for serious work. “The Convert,” Elizabeth Robin’s novel published some two years ago, is now selling as though it were just issued. It Is a novel of English life at the time when suffragette violence was just beginning to attract the attention of the world and had not yet become a factor In the movement. Booker Washington says in the preface of his new book, “The Story of the Negro,” that "In writing this volume it has been my object to show what the negro himself has accomplished In constructive directions. I have not undertaken to discuss the many problems which have arisen through the contact of the negro with other races but to tell a simple, straight story of what the negro himsel( has accomplished In the way of attaining to a higher civilization.” In writing of the effect made upon bin)--dfelf by the study of the origin and development of bis people he says that "there grew up within me a determination to spend my life "in helping And strengthening the people of my race in order to prove to the world that whatever had been Re feelings for them in the past, it should Tearn to respect them lrf the future, both for what'they were and what they should be able to do."