SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE is the subject of an article by William Marion Reedy, published recently in Reedy's Mirror of St. Louis. "White is," he says,...
...Professor Miller.outlines simply and clearly the chief theses of this philosophy and then turns immediately to an explanation of these religious implications...
...It would seem that the members of the pocket-less sex are not necessarily lacking in financial acumen even after centuries during which they have been notable as having no money or any place to put it if they had...
...At last the storm was breaking, but the lightning frequently struck here or there...
...In the Epilogue, or Apotheosis, occur the celebration of the death of war and the triumph of the acorn-planters...
...Though this luminous philosopher is still in his prime not a few books on him and his work have already appeared...
...The Shaman joins with the war party, and is privy to the massacre of the explorers...
...He has a style that is as fresh as Sam Blythe's but with more refinement than the per-siflagitious Sam has time to put into his work...
...THE NEW and attractively prepared edition of Alice Morse Earle's Old Time Gardens (published February 16), a volume which enjoyed great popularity some years ago, but which has been recently out of print, will be welcomed by all lovers of literature and of flowers...
...After the passage of thousands of years, again in the grove appear the Nishiman, anr' Red Cloud, the War Chief, the Shaman, and the Dew-Woman are repeated the eternal figures of the philosopher, the soldier, the priest, and the woman—types ever realizing themselves afresh in the social adventures of man...
...A good part of Bergson's wide appeal is undoubtedly due to the religious implications inherent in his philosophy...
...The massacre by the white men follows, and Red Cloud, dying, recognizes the white men as brother acorn-planters, the possessors of the superior life-formula of which he had always been a protagonist...
...They show famous old gardens, beautiful examples of flowers that have been popular and of which now little is heard, and queer old-time garden prints of sun dials, garden walks and garden furnishings...
...Here he has a theme which employs to the full his sense of the dramatic and which made particularly significant through its use of old Indian myths and legends...
...Henry Holt and Company have announced that they will publish this month, Bergson and Religion by Professor Lucius Hopkins Miller who in his Our Knowledge of Christ has shown himself distinctly liberal and broadminded...
...Naturally it will have a special interest for those who feel that there is a vital basis for religion between Orthodoxy and Radicalism...
...Mr...
...ENOS MILLS, conservationist, and author of many well-known books on Western America, tells the following story of how a pioneer settled an old discussion: One day in the mountains of Montana, I took refuge with a pioneer...
...THOUGH the fact that some five years ago ladies crowded into Professor Bergson's lectures till many were turned away has almost been forgotten, the demand for his Creative Evolution (Holt) still keeps it among its publisher's "best sellers...
...So terrific was the bolt that the tree appeared to have been suddenly dynamited...
...THE SUCCESS of Ernest Poole's Tlie Harbor (Macmillan) in this country is being duplicated in Norway, where a translated edition of it has just appeared...
...We were standing in the open door of his house, when suddenly the lightning struck a tree near by...
...JOHN MASEFIELD'S Good Friday and Other Poems went into its second edition on the day of its publication, February 9th, a distinction which rarely comes to a book of verse and which indicates the admiration which America has for this great English poet...
...IN The Acorn Planter (Macmillan), which may be described as a musical forest play, Jack London is dealing with the peace of nations...
...The War Chief, who commands in war, sings that war is the only way to life...
...That instance brought to my mind an...
...For nineteen years Idaho has had a woman at the head of its department of education...
...Now over five years after its first appearance, it is in a twelfth printing...
...These women superintendents have made irrigation contracts amounting to three hundred million dollars...
...This Red Cloud denies, affirming that the way of life is the way of the acorn-planter, and that whoso slays one man slays the planter of many acorns...
...In a book of nearly five hundred pages, profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs, the author deals with such subjects as Colonial Garden Making, Front Door-Yard, Box Edgings, The Herb Garden, In Lilac Tide, Old Flower Favorites, Gardens of the Poets, Childhood in A Garden, Garden Furnishings, Flowers of Mystery and Roses of Yesterday...
...It was a rainy day...
...A hundred years pass, when, on their seasonal migration, the Nishinam camp for the night in the grove...
...He said, "Gosh, it don't need to...
...But the War Chief and the idea of war are dominant...
...So I turned to this old pioneer and said, "Why is it, Jerry, that lightning never strikes twice in the same place...
...They still live, and the war formula for life seems vindicated, despite the imminence of the superior life-makers, the whites, who are flooding into California from north, south, east, and west-—the English, the Americans, the Spaniards, and the Russians...
...old discussion of why it is said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place...
...Red Cloud wins the Shaman and the people to his contention...
...She thus becomes manager of nearly two million acres of school land...
...The illustrations alone are a delight...
...Moreover, there is a certain goodness about Will—not mawkish, just plain goodness, tolerance and sympathy...
...The story is interesting in itself and is rendered doubly so because it embodies its distinguished author's ideas on war and its effect on the human race...
...Messrs...
...BERNICE McCOY was elected not only state superintendent of public instruction in Idaho but a member of the state land board as well...
...They have leased and released 'school lands to the tune of five million dollars, yet, it is said, they have never lost a dollar...
...The story of the play may be seen from the following passages quoted from the argument at the front of the book: "In the morning of the world, while his tribe makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man of the Nishinam, save in war sings of the duty of life, which duty is to make life more abundant...
...The book has had a large sale there, according to report, and has appeared as a serial in one of the leading Christiana papers...
...The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of foreboding and prophecy...
...For nineteen years Idaho has had woman suffrage...
...Red Cloud recognizes the wrecked explorers as planters and life-makers, and is for treating them with kindness...
...White is," he says, "one of our best writers...
...White's latest book, God's Puppets, Reedy pronounces "a good one," a work which, in part, "recalls him at his best in his earliest sketches ittj The King of Boyville...
...His humor is pervasively diffused over life and those who live it...
Vol. 8 • August 1916 • No. 8
