Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — Author Takes Liberties. [ARTICLE]

Author Takes Liberties.

Rider Haggard has a good deal of trouble with the moon. In one case he causes the satellite to be full at a time when it could not possibly have been more than a crescent, and in "King Solomon’s Mines" be Introduces an eclipse at the same luminary, very convenient for his plot and for the Impression of awe which his herpes with & produce upon the natives, bat quite unknown to any astronomical text-book.