Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1900 — Page 13

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NICHOLSON'S "HOOSIERS"

4 cniTicAL sti dv or LITCIIAIIY DCvi:i.or3ii:xT i Indiana.

A Book f .Much Value for Its Vnrlctr of lllatorlcnl and llloerapblcal Information.

In "The Iloosiers." Just Issued from the jlarminan Company's press. Mr. Meredith VUholsc-n has made an extremely lnteres'tir.g ani1 uoful contribution to the hlstorj d native State. The history of jnrar.i i being produced slowly, but In the test possible way that such literature can t-e written, ramely. the treatment of a j,rio!. an element or an episode. In Its development by one who has made a close ar.I social study of that division of the subject. So one writer la ever likely to cevtr thoroughly every part of a theme o many-sided, but toother a number of delvtrs may produce a complete and admirable work. Mr. Dillon and Mr. Dunn have dealt with the growth and political Ufo of the Territory and State In Its early period in a way that makes their books an authority. Mr. F.nglish told the Ptory of the Indiana Constitution. Mr. Foulke's Liopraf hy of Governor Morton is at the pare time a history of the State during the civil war period. Professor lloone has told of the progress of the educational movement in Indiana; many others have contributed to the narrative In the shape cf bits cf biography, chapters of local lore, etc. Even novelists have done their part In the sidelights they have thrown on historical events or the character and condition of the people. At least three have done service In this direction Mr. Epgleston. Mr. Thompson and Miss Krout. It has remained for Mr. Nicholson to take up the hitherto neglected branch of the subject the development of literature In the State. It is a mater cf common knowledge that the Intellectual and literary activity of Indiana has been remarkable, but the special causes for the growth and achievements in this line have never before Ken elaborated. It is not by accident that such manifestations of culture and artistic impulse are brought about. Very proitrly, the author of "The Roosters" ha3 studied these conditions. The opening chapters of his book are a review of early social and political life in the State and the circumstances which determined the general character of the population. These chapters are plainly the result of careful reading and investigation, containing, as they do, much information of a varied eort bearing on the development of the people. Ol" AMERICAN STOCK. "The Indianlans," he says, "came primarily of American stock, and they, have been influenced much lets' than the majority of their neighbors in other States by the currents of alien migration that have Cowed around and beyond them. The frontiersmen, who carried the rlile and the ax to make way for the plow, were brave. hardy and intelligent; and thoe who accompanied them and became builders of cities and framers and interpreters oi law, were their kinsmen, and possessed the natural qOalities and the cultivation that would have made them conspicuous anywhere. The Indianians remained , in a striking degree the lixed Imputation of the territority that fell to then?. They were sustained and lifted by religion through all their formative years, and when aroused to the Importance of education were quick to Insure Intelligence to their posterity. The artistic impulse appeared naturally. The value of thr literature produced in the State may be debatable, but there Is no just occasion for surprise that attention to literary expression has been so general." As showing how the native Americans came to dominate in Indiana to a greater extent than most Northern States he quotes from the census of 1SL, which showed that 71 per cent, of the population consisted of natives, 20 per cent, natives of other States, while the foreign-born population comprised only 6 per cent, of the whole. These remarkable figures indicate that whatever the intellectual phenomena vniy have been they were due to influence from within the home territory, rather than from without. In other words, the isolation of the renplf made them original. Nor was their originality the outcome of Fchools, for schools were few and far between in that first half century. Yet, without the op

portunity for formal education, the means

of culture were there, and were utilized. Of this fact there is a striking instance. "Their isolation compelled meditation." Fays Mr. Nicholson, speaking of the

rloneers. "and when reading matter penetrated the woodlands it was usually worth the trouble of transportation in a day of few roads and little travel. The pioneers know their Hildes and named their children for the liible heroes, and most of

their other books were religious. There have been worse places in which to form habits of thought and to lay tho foundation for a good manner of writing our language

than the Hoosier cabin Lying before the fin place in his father's humble Spencer

county home during the fourteen years that the family spent in Indiana years

that were of the utmost importance in his

life Abraham Lincoln studied his few books and caught the elusive language lirit that later on gave character and beauty to his utterances." SOURCES OF DIALECT. In a chapter devoted to "the rural type

and the dialect" he offers an Interesting study of the growth of the population, the n.inglirg of the. New England, the Virginia

and the Carolina elements and the German and French elements and the local idioms that developed out of their respective pe-

cuüarltles of speech. He accounts for

:nl,i t. but dots not apologize for it, for, "after all," he says, "there is nothing reprehensible in dialect, as we loosely use the word, o- even in s!an,g. Flexibility is necessary to the living language, and the word-

h'int'T who really delights in his vocation, n l in not limited in his researches to the r motor holds of classical philology, hearing in his dally walks and in the tranquil t;:!k of peaceful inns the pungent or plctori il word that no lexicographer has yet d- ttt tetl. knows a Joy that is greater than that of My-üshing or butt rlly hunting." Those two chapters, with the ones following, dealing with educational unfoldlngs ar.i the New Harmony experiment, cover eery Influence of birth, heredity, environment, religion, schools everything which couM have uv.y bearing on the literary trend. By themselves they form a history for which there has been great need. Much of the Information in them has been tbtainable heretofore only by slow and laborIt. u a research, and only editors and librarians know how often such information Is -ught for by students, club members nd others. In gathering thl3 material together. Mr. Nicholson has supplied a general want The same can be said of the remaining chapters, which contain brief sketches of the men and women who have produced the literature, and a review of their achievements. Naturally, he gives first place to the men who have best Interpreted the Honsier. namely, Edward Eggleston and Jam?3 Whltcomb Riley. Incidentally It cay be said that he discusses the derivation of the teim Hoosier and gives the results of investigations in a way that eems to leave nothing further to be said on the aubject. To the two authors named, Mr. Nicholson

Eives much attention, biographical sketches being followed by studies of their work showing the intimate, even affectlonite, comprehension that only a son cf the same soil could have; yet at the same time the estimates are not marred by extravagant eulogy, but carry conviction because of their obvious sanity. This Judicial quality In the historian is admirable and important, since the book Is one that 'will be read, not by Iloosiers only, but by students of American literature everywhere., EGGLESTON AND RILET7 Dr. Eggleston's life, Mr. Nicholson 'says.

makes in Itself a delightful story of aspira

tion and achievement.

"Many Americana have experienced

hardship and discouragement, but few have proflte. -J. so richly as this novelist and

mstorian by every whim cf fortune. Illhealth has menaced him all his days, but

physical Infirmity has never conquered his nmbltion or diminished his mental vitality. There is about him an exuberance of spir

its that 13 not only a distinguishing per

sonal trait, but a quality of all his stories.

Ana ir m-health in his youth ana young manhood InterruDted the orderly course of

education, it also brought him opportun

ities for acquiring a broad knowledge of American provincial life that no school could have given him. Dr. Eggleston was the pioneer provincial realist; and If, as he ?ayg, the great American novel la being written in sections. he certainly contributed early chapters, and indicated the lines to be followed." Of the many "appreciations" of Mr. Riley probably none has been written which has shown a better understanding of the man and his work than the chapter i elating to him in this book. It 13 at once fair and sympathetic and admirable in tone. The writer gets at the heart of the poet's peculiar charm in this passage: "Humor is pre-eminent In Mr. Riley, and it suggests that of Dickens In Its kinship with pathos. It seems to be peculiar to the literature of lowly life tnat there Is a heartache beneath much of its gayety, and tears are almost Inevitably associated with its laughter. Mr. Rlky never satirizes, never ridicules his creations; his attitude Is always that of lha kindly and admiring advocate, and it is by enlisting the sympathy of his readers, sugctlitig much to their reeling and Imagination, and awak-

nlnp; In them a response tir.t aids and supplements his own work, that Mr. Riley ha3 won his way to the populir heart. "Fame," he says in conclusion, "came to Mr. Riley when he was still young, and it is only a fair assumption that he has not exhausted the field, but that he will gTow more and more secure in it. Serious work it has not always been possible for him to do, for his-audience learned to expect humor In all nis verses, and refused to be disappointed; but his ambition lies beyond humorous dialect, though he finds no fault with the public preference. All that he writes is welcome, for he is a preacher of sound optimism and a sincere believer in the final good that comes to all." WALLACE AND OTHERS. A chapter Is given to Crawford3viUe and lis literary workers General Lew Wallace, the Thompsons, the Krout sisters and others. He offers a pretty and deserved tribute to the town itself as a center of intellectual life. Elsewhere he puts this town on the northern line of Indiana's greatest literary activity a statement likely to be disputed by champions of the northern half of the State. In the study of General Wallace is this striking touch: "Heredity and environment explain nothing in General Wallace. He is an estray from the Orient, whom Occidental conditions have influenced little. This is proved by all his imaginative writing, by his military tastes, by many qualities of his personality and by his appearance and bearing. He has never written of American life, and the attraction of Mexico as a r.eld for fiction lay in the splendor and remoteness of the early civilization of the country, combined with the romance of its conquest by soldiers of Spain. In like manner "Een-Hur" and "The Prince of India" are such subjects as would naturally appeal to him. His fancy has delighted always in the thought of pageantry, conquest, mystery and mighty deeds; it has pleased him to contemplate 'the formal social life of the old heroic times. The beginning of his friendship with" the Sultan illustrates a sympathy, native In him. with the Oriental characters. The Oriental strain in him has become more and more pronounced, suggesting that the years spent in the study of Eastern history, and his actual contact with Oriental peoples, have emphasized it." Other chapters treat of the multitude of minor writers and of the influence of the newspaper press on local literature. In writing of the "Indiana choir" of singers Mr. Nicholson gives deserved prominence to Forceythe Willson, a poet who showed In his brief life a promise which, if years had permitted fulfillment, would doubtless have made his name a noted one. So little has been written of him that it has been difficult for students of American literature to secure more than the most meager data, and this sketch is, therefore, the more welcome. In a recent reminiscent article in Harper's Magazine Mr. W. D. Höwells alludes to him in terms confirmatory of the estimate placed on his work in this volume. Altogether, the ground Is well covered by Mr. Nicholson. He has produced a work which is not only of local value for historical and biographical reference, but one whose critical estimates of a distinct phase of national Intellectual development must make it Indispensable to all students of American literature. Apart, too, from its historical lore it i3 a book to give pleasure to the reader for its grace of style. Its lightness of touch and the deft weaving in of anecdote and illustration. "The Hoosiers" comes third in a series of national studies in American letters, edited by Prof. George Edward Woodberry, of Columbia University. Its predecessors are "Old Cambridge." by Thomas Went worth Higginson, and "Brook Farm," by Lindsay Swift. These two books have attracted unusual attention, and the third Is likely to have an equal welcome. New t'se for the Phonograph. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "The phonograph has been put to a lot

of strange uses since its invention," said a bird fancier of this city, "but to nothing queerer. I believe, than teaching parrots to talk. That Is being done at present by a dealer in Philadelphia, and as soon as I can get hold of the apparatus I am going to try it myself. A young fellow who formerly worked in his shop described the scheme to me in detail. It seems that he secured what is called a 'switch-back phonograph, which was constructed as an experiment for a school of languages. It had a simple attachment that pushed back the cylinder at the end and started it over again automatically, the idea being to fix certain foreign phrases In the memory of the scholars by constant repetition. The dealer now prepares a record containing some sentence or expression which he desire.? to teach his birds, groups several cages about the mouth of the horn and sets the thing going. It has an electric motor and keeps on grinding out that one phrase all day long. He uses a small vacant room for the purpose, so there is nothing to distract the parrot's attention, and merely locks the door and goes about his business, leaving the machine to do the rest. The young man told me that the plan rroved a per'ect success and the birds learned their lesson In about one-tenth of the time that Is usually required to drill anything into their heads. Moreover, they would pick Jp phrases twice the ordinary length, and the monotonous reiteration seemed to fix the words thoroughly in their memory. He said that severa parrots that had never before been able to talk soon learned by the new method, and that there was not a single case In which It failed. I have the address of the man who made the 'switch-back machine and I am going" to try to get him to build one for me. From the description It cannot be very expensive. When I secure It I propose to turn out some educated p&rrots that will astonish the city." Italny Days. O rainy days! O rfavs ef sun! What re ye all when the year is done? Wh hall remember tun vr rain? O yran of los! O Joyful yars! What are ye when all heaven appear? Wbv shall look back for Joy or pain? -W. P. FoUr.

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Are necessary to show cur great Holiday Book Stock, and to accommodate the great Holiday crowds OUR REGULAR DEPARTMENT on the Alain Floor has been enlarged to meet holiday demands. Here you will find the NEW BOOKS, STANDARD BOOKS, SETS OF BOOKS, STATIONERY. THE SECOND-FLOOR DEPARTMENT will contain the CHILDREN'S BOOKS in boards and paper covers. In choosing books, more than anything else, time and careful thought are necessary. So we admonish you again TO COME EARLY, BEFORE THE GREAT RUSH BEGINS. A FEW HINTS: New Books0n Main Floor Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson.... $1.18 Eben Holden, by Irving Bachellor by Amelia Barr $1.18 The Lane That Had No Turning by Gilbert Parker $1.18 Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington $1.00 In The Palace of The King by Marion Crawford $1.18 The Master Christian by Marie Corelli $1.18 Tommy and Grizel sequel to Sentimental Tommy, byBarrie$1.18 Stringtown on the Pike by Lloyd ..$1.18 Kleanor by Mrs. Humphrey Ward $1.18 Richard Yea and Nay by Maurice Hewlett $1.18 Home Folks anew book of Poems, bv James Whitcomb Riley '. $1.00 A new edition of Elizabeth and Her German Garden 40c Illustrated and Holiday Books Americans by Charles Dana Gibson..... ...$4.00 Elizabeth and Her German Garden and The Solitary Summer two volumes, boxed $4.00 Rulers of the South by Marion Crawford $6.00 John Drew and Ellen Terry by Clement Scott $2.00 Fore," Life book for Golfers $1.70 Wonders of Nature described by great writers, by Esther Singleton $1.60 New Books for Boys Three new Henty books, each. $1.18 In the Irish Brigade, Out with Garibaldi, With Buller in Natal. With Lawton and Roberts by Elbridge S. Brooks $1.00 The Lone Star by John Preston True : . $1.18 The Ileuty Books 5 volumes, boxed, per set 80c Jacob Abbott's Books o volumes, boxed, per set 80c Old Glory Series by Edward Stratemeyer, 1 volumes, boxed$4.00 Soldier Boy Series by Oliver Optic, per volume... $1.00 New Books for Girls Elsie's Young Folks 75c A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas.. $1.1 8 Joel Peppers by the Author of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew $1.18 Special Juveniles Songs of Father Goose, Baby Goose, His Adventures, The Army Alphabet, The Flying Kangaroo and The Apple Butter Cat, The Wondeif ul Wizard of Ooz, Folksof Funny ville. The Chateau Series Famous Classics bound in parti-style, various colors, cloth back and side stamped in gold floral effects on fancy paper. Each volume boxed. Publisher's price 7Gc, our price 28c SPECIALFunk and Wagnalls Standard Dictonary, with Deuison pattent index, each v $5.98 The Standard Diaries of 1901. THREE ITEMS FROM SECOND FLOOR Chatterboxes, 1900 for 90c St. Nicholas, 2 volumes $3.50 CALENDARS of all kinds, a larger assortment than we've ever shown, prices from 2cto $2.00

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Ladies' Holiday Neckwear The laces and embroideries removed to west sisle fn order to live neckwear more display twice the room for neckwear now to display the immense assortment we have this year. Collars with long liberty silk jabots elaborately trimmed with Juby in all colors, also collars with dainty gilt bows, silk ruftled scarfs, net tics, lace collars, silk and chenille boas, and. In fact, anything that might be suggested In the novelty line of holiday neck wear suitable for a gift. Satin Stocks with pretty jabots plaited with velvet royal, a new ma

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Christmas Art Goods A magnificent assortment of Renaissance pieces, special $1.0) Centerpieces fiCl tor. each UVL A beautiful line of hand decorated Swedish novelties, burnt leather Sofa Pillows, Opera Bags, in fact, everything new and beautiful in art goods. Second Floor. Holiday Pictures A most complete department; hundreds of new pictures arriving daily; all kinds of pictures priced much less than elsewhere. Beautiful facsimile Water Colors.. tjOo Beautiful Water Colors .. Oo Nicely framed in gilt and silver moldChristmas Gloves Most appropriate for the holiday gift-giving time. Fancy glove boxes furnUhed t it h every pair of gloves priced at $1.00 or ever. Ladles' two-clasp real French Kid Gloves, the "Juliette," in all ff colors, a pair kpiJß The Cygne" three-clasp rcalf Sfk French Kid, a pair. ipl.OV Dent's and Fowne's Gloves ajJ2 00 Iteynier and Trefousse Suede Gloves fn all colors, a pair. $1.25 to $1.75 Center Aisle.

Tailored Wear for Women The best opportunity of tke scssoa will be offered this week. Smart, elegantly tailored garments in freshest styles at figures that show sharp price concessions. Jackets and Coats made of kerseys, cheviots and worsted cloths, in colors and black, all lined, jaunty short ones, mannish, medium and long ones, $5.00 to $25.00 Golf Capes made of soft plaid back cloth and Imported rugs some very long for carriage wear, $5.95 to $20.00 Velour Jackets, some foreign make?, some domestic copies, ail handsomely trimmed with fur or jet, $25.00 to $75.00

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Black Dress Goods All-wool black cheviot, extra Sfl weight and quality, a yard OUC All-wool storm serge for every- rn day hard wear, a yard ö"c French poplin in elegant quality this week, a yard iöC Pure mohair whipcord, some- flfk thing new, a yard West Aisle.

Sale of Silks Continued $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 Silks 69c This offering conus fr-m a very advantageous purchase of th rtock cf a silk, waist manufacturer. Tb colorings and patterns comprise a magnificent assortment of beautiful designs i-Npt-vially appropriate for evening uzi dn-v weia Of the many excellent silk valres wo h.-ie had th pleaure ot offering you this Is the best on center Mlk n counter, a, yard Our assortments of Mack Silks complete and the finest to to found, every known w eave litre, a j ar I,

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For children's dress CS-Inch plaids, TZ( a yard öüt Henriettas in 4!) shades, a yard.... rOo 45-inch .silk finish Henriettas I:i a full line of staple shades, also plt:k, ZT light blue and cream, a yard 43-Inch fill-wool -serges in bli'e. CA reds and browns, a yard xJsJi -West Al-!e. WANT HD Sale womrn, aU loy nnd girl for the holiday Imtiiu-Mi. Apply before l oclM k.

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