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the solid-tire inventors; thus the auto-
mobile trust disposed of the Doble
steam car; .thus Ford beat Selden in
the courts; thus it was declared
in amazingly quick fashion, that the
recent "invention,' Frost-bites," was
a food' rather than a confection, and
thus today are the steel, copper, and
aluminum interests fighting a new cor-
poration which has a formula for mak-
ing aluminum from kaolin for about
six cents .a pound.
As Emerson put it, "In the law
courts crimes of fraud have taken the
place of crimes of force. The stock-'
holder has stepped into the place of
the warlike /baron. The nobles shall'
not any longer, as feudal lords, have
power of ,life and death over the.
churls, but now in another shape as
capitalists, shall in all love and peace
eat them up as before." The system
* had gathered remarkable headway
even in Emerson's time. If he lived unes, there is little doubt of the fore May 15 toi Mr. laniel Long, 5559
today he would probably make state- source of inspiration. More puer (o Beeler St., Pittsburg, Pa., with
ment that would send him to Leaven- the whole crew! "Poetry Society Contest" marked on
wort.h - the envelope.
A prize of $100 for the .beot pues
Enough of this. Robinson's book is written by an undergraduate of any Clare Sheridan, the sculptress,
one of the outgrowths of Wells "Out- college or university is being offered whose "Mayfair to Moscow," the en-
line of History." Much as I dislike the by Witter Bynner, the president of gagingly written record of her Rus-
average tract novel, essay, or tome of the Poetry Society of America. The sian experiences, brought her into
any kind from the pen of Wells, I poems should have the name and the literary prominence last spring, is the
must grant that he has written two address of the author on each page author of a new book, "My American
or three good novels, and more import- and must be not more than 200 lines Diary," which is to be published by
ant, that his recent history, for all its in length. They must be mailed be- Boni and Liveright.
envy of such superior men as Alex-
ander, Caesar, Napoleon, and Bis-
marck, is generally good and that it,
above all, has started other honest
and capable men inquiring into the
same field of endeavor. Several books
have followed that of Wells, covering
much the same ground. "Whether
Shaw was inspired by Wells to his
"Back to Methuselah" is hard to say,
.but I rather doubt it. Shaw's book is
the weakest, of the lot. But with Van
Loon's "The Story of Mankind," with
Joseph McCabe's "The Evolution of
Civilization," with Robinson's book,
and a half dozen other worthy vol-
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