SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots By GEORGE MIDDLETON WHEN THE DAY OF SOULS appeared a few years ago, it was easy to see revealed a new novelist of vision and power who would, no doubt, in time have to be reckoned...
...Clopper says, "perhaps it is due to the illusion of the near...
...That's what we're getting, along with the soil culture and forest preservation and law engineering—I tell you it sounds like the march of a new civilization—the tramp of the young men going up the hill...
...simply because these little boys and girls have been ministering to its wants the public has given them scarcely a passing thought...
...In fact, there is a new note of comedy revealed here which was not conspicuous in the author's work before...
...Through a creditable series of absorbing episodes she goes on the stage and makes good...
...What is best in it is the so-called "heart interest" which added to a subtle charm makes it both readable and pleasing...
...Later when with an old soldier she comes North, the author outlines with insight her growing revolt at the conventions of a small Iowa town and her eagerness to become something...
...American educators hope that the interest in criminology will lead to something similar in this country...
...The institution is affiliated with Birmingham University...
...There is not always apparent so close a familiarity with the material as evinced in his first novel, though it is less a social treatise than his second...
...a Carpenter Stood out for timber...
...The background of this story is the political unrest of the Middle West and the growth and influence of the Wisconsin Idea in its broadest sense...
...Doubtless to the great majority of people the thought that the life of the messenger boy—the newsboy or the bootblack serve equally well as examples—is attended with unquestionable evils, has never occurred and where it has occurred it has been as quickly put out of mind...
...when he told them to go out and preach the recall, and the state control of wealth—I've heard them shout...
...AT WOODBROKE, ENGLAND, there is a school for social service, where men and women from all parts of the world study various kinds of social work...
...The bad results of the policy laissez faire are clearly presented...
...One passage of particular interest to those who have drawn their inspiration from the University of Wisconsin and as expressing the spirit with which Mr...
...The conditions which Mr...
...but the Tanner: "Sir, Leather's the thing, unless I greatly err...
...I've lain in bed after bucking all night on soil-tests and economic history and listened to the young men going up the hill to Carmack's lectures—the young men up the hill in the snow at seven o'clock...
...Physicians, publicists, lawyers, police and court officials were among those who enrolled for the course...
...Just why this particular form of child labor should have been ignored in the general movement for child welfare is hard to understand, but as Mr...
...Though the second book was by no means the artistic success of the first yet it, too, had undeniable bits of penetration and characterization...
...Clopper's book discloses are appalling...
...The early scenes in which are traced her romantic life on the bayous of Louisiana are lyric to a degree...
...The chief interest is centered on his heroine—Aurelie—who is a highly successful study...
...the next two deal with effects and the final ones are concerned with the remedies...
...Jackson is a writer of dignity and intention...
...She is one of the restless ones of life whose destiny it ever is to be on the way without anchorage...
...The truth of this statement is amply demonstrated in the chapters which follow, which are made up of the actual stories of the lives of newsboys, bootblacks, peddlers, messengers and other juvenile workers...
...And when he declared that the spirit of socialism was the spirit of every good thing the world was fighting for...
...A Mason called for bricks...
...It seems as though a happy ending had not originally been contemplated, for Aurelie would never be content to settle down and sew her husband's socks...
...Street workers have always been far more conspicuous than any other child laborers, and it is their approximation that has been their misfortune...
...Charles Tenney Jackson has now written a third novel of American life—The Midlanders (Bobbs-Merrill, Co...
...A COURSE IN PENAL STUDIES was recently instituted by the University of Montpellier, France...
...which, though penned in an entirely different vein, will probably achieve greater popularity than either of the others...
...In His Brother's Keeper, which followed, one saw also a capacity to feel the social problems which all people more or less unconsciously typify...
...The scope has been made as broad as possible, all forms of city work that engage any considerable number of children being described at length and opinions and findings of others freely quoted...
...Clopper makes clear just what these influences for the bad are and how the messenger has no choice but to mingle with them...
...THE TRAMP OF THE YOUNG MEN GOING UP THE HILL...
...The first five chapters of "Child Labor in City Streets" review present conditions and describe causes...
...Child Labor in City Streets "T HE FREE rein at present given to child labor in our city streets is productive of nothing but harm- ful results and it is high time that a determined stand was taken for the "rights of children so exposed," writes E. N. Clopper in the preface of his book "Child Labor in City Streets," (Macmillan, New York, $1.25 net...
...OF THE 523,000 public school-teachers in the United States more than four-fifths are women...
...This book is a valuable aid to all who are concerned with the conservation of our greatest national asset—the child...
...Clopper does not plead for the regulation of juvenile street labor, he pleads for its prohibition, the necessity for which will be more readily recognized after the book has been read...
...But the novel is more of a love story than any broad picture of his new social conscience which the author cleverly utilizes, however, to show the simultaneous growth and awakening in certain of his characters...
...Jackson writes, may be quoted in full: " 'You shall seek the truth, and the truth shall make you free;' that is what they tell us up there," went on Arne...
...Fables in Verse (AFTER AESOP) By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD To be published in book form by the Open Court THE THREE TRADESMEN A MIGHTY CITY stood besieged, and all Its people gathered in the city hall To choose the proper substance for a wall...
...And the two men who eventually turn out to be respectively father and husband are vital and real...
...Still the same interest in the large social and political questions of the day, the same sincerity of treatment and, above all, the same grasp of characterization, bids us feel Mr...
...Snap Shots By GEORGE MIDDLETON WHEN THE DAY OF SOULS appeared a few years ago, it was easy to see revealed a new novelist of vision and power who would, no doubt, in time have to be reckoned with...
...The transformation in her is true and yet drawn with considerable poetic feeling...
...There was something about this very unusual picture of men and women in the under-world of San Francisco, as it existed before the earthquake, which lifted it far above the casual story of the day...
...The main criticism must be directed at the ending, for the author has lost control of the characters and the plot controls their actions...
...MORAL The zeal of men to serve the state depends Confoundedly upon their private ends.s...
...This seems a flaw in what is otherwise a firm and convincing portrayal...
Vol. 4 • October 1912 • No. 40
