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LITERATURE

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CAMP-FIRES ON DESERT AND LAVA, by William T. Hornaday Sc D., is a book of the outdoors, by a true outdoorsman. To us it is more fascinating even than his "Camp-Fires In the Canadian Rockies." It Is a story of exploration into one of the few remaining practically unknown bits of the earth's surface not adjacent to the Poles. It is the narrative of an exploration from Tucson, Arizona, southwesterly across the desert to the mysterious and desolate Pinacate region in Northwestern Mexico. If you read Professor Hornaday's book, and then go and get yourself shipwrecked near the extreme head of the Gulf of California, you can sight Pinacate on your northern horizon, and remembering Mr. Hornaday's description you can possibly find water. Otherwise you will not get home.

But that is not the object of the book. It is to entertain you, and make you acquainted with something new about the earth's surface that has not been "covered" in the Sunday Supplement. Professor Hornaday is one who can play upon hardship and rough adventure, without pulling out all the stops of the tragic and the dreadful. He can go across the desert without going mad from thirst, and "with swollen tongue and burning eyeballs pursue the mocking mirage." Like all true lovers of the free out-of-doors, he makes you long to be there too. He sees the grim and the humorous side of things without over-doing either in describing them. There is a Rooseveltan vigor and manliness through all his chapters.

The book tells of the marvelous varieties of animal and plant life encountered on the trip; incidents of the trail and of camp life; and the adventures of the party In pursuit of game, including the Rocky Mountain Big Horn. The numbers of the latter found in the heart of the black region of five hundred dead volcanic craters, are no less extraordinary than the tameness of the animals, few or none of whom, doubtless, had ever before seen a human being. Charles Scribner & Sons, New York, $3.00.

GANTON & CO. "A Story of Chicago Commercial and Social Life," by Arthur Jerome Eddy, is neither altogether depressing nor especially cheering, pessimistic nor optimistic, tragic nor humorous; but it mixes these elements mildly and agreeably, and it is instructive without being "preachy." And this is not faint praise that might help to damn the book, for we hasten to add that it is very interesting. "Give me," said Walter Besant, "a story that grips and holds me,—a book that will not let itself be laid aside,—that is all I ask of a book." Few readers will lay down "Ganton & Co." until it is read through. The central figure is Ganton, the head of one of Chicago's largest packing plants; not a lovable figure,—selfmade, able, brutal, vulgar, big, bold, unscrupulous,—quite the regulation thing In the first-generation-Chicago-packing line. But he is mortal;—notwithstanding his potency he develops a "pain in his stomick" before the middle of the book, and we have a lot about that pain until its quietus in the last chapter. He says a lot of good things—rough-hewn business aphorisms, sophisms and brutal truths. There are a half-dozen well-sketched minor characters, and a deal of clever dialogue. The author attempts nothing intricate or novel In the way of plot, but gives an interesting "inside" picture of a great labor strike at the stockyards. Evidently his study of the history of a typical strike has not stimulated respect for strike-leaders like Ballard,—a thug and blackmailer; nor for employers like Ganton, a briber and cruel manipulator, who buys off a strike at one time, only deliberately to encourage it later, when conditions permit profit from "going short of ribs, pork, corn and wheat on the Board of Trade." One sympathizes with the deluded and rioting strikers, and the deliberately robbed and equally deluded public that has to pay "fancy" prices for Its meat. Romantic love Is, of course, out of place In such a story, and properly the author introduces no Romeos or Juliets. However, a touch of sentiment, here and there, lends a bit of perfume to the Chicago "atmosphere" which is over all.

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LOOTERS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN,

is a recent contribution to Western literature and is attracting attention by reason of the sweeping nature of its exposures of fraudulent public-land operators and their methods. Its authors are S. A. D. Puter, (dubbed by the newspapers "King of the Oregon Land-Fraud Ring"), and Horace Stevens, until recently connected with the Government Land service. The work is practically a frank confession by Puter of his share in the "looting" of the public lands on the Pacific Coast during the past twenty-five years. Puter, one of the few important looters ever to actually serve a term in prison for his offenses, whiled away much of his two years' stay in the Multnomah County (Oregon) jail, working on the manuscript of his book. The last six chapters in the book, and the introductory, were written by Mr. Stevens, who also revised Mr. Puter's manuscript. Two distinct types of aggressiveness are represented in the authorship, so widely at variance that it seems strange there should be any amalgamation of sentiment. Puter is the personification of the class that had come to regard the public domain as its legitimate prey, while his collaborator has stood for the law that has run the plunderers to earth. It is an odd fact that while Puter was engaged diligently in some of his illegal enterprises, Stevens was equally active in ferreting out the crimes, so that their composite story has a unique historical advantage, affording details from both sides, unusual accuracy being the natural result. With an interesting subject for the foundation, (though the ordinary acquirement of land titles seldom gives rise to startling episodes), the authors have graphically and vigorously presented their facts. Some of the chapters, indeed, have the fascination of romance; this is especially the case where they describe the efforts of land operators to baffle the Secret Service branch of the government. The book is the most detailed and authoritative review yet published of land-fraud operations on the Pacific Coast. It is illustrated with a great number of portraits and woodland scenes.

Parts of this book go beyond the revelations so far made in the courts. Sensational charges and statements are very bluntly and freely made. Thus far, however, the authors do not seem to have been troubled by anyone seeking legal or other redress because of the imputations contained in the book.

That revenge formed a part of Puter's motive is shown by his own admission. For years he had been engaged In these nefarious pursuits with others more prominent than he in business and political affairs, who, considering that they could no longer afford to be associated with him after his conviction, are alleged to have deserted him in his extremity. This instance, whether fancied or otherwise, seems to have aroused all the animosity in Puter's nature, and in his recitals of intrigue he has struck back with venom. Discussing this phase of the situation in his introductory Mr. Stevens, says:

"Those who profited most by Puter's fraudulent operations had recognized in him a daring spirit whose early environs had stamped him with courageous instincts and they knew he was not afraid to take chances,—with law or anything else. They found out that they could use him as a battering-ram to break the laws, and open the doors to a vast treasure-trove. Sordid motives were behind all their concern for Puter, and when the time came—as come it must where dishonest methods are the incentive — and they realized that 'the jig was up,' they deserted him, as rats leave a sinking ship. To them he was simply a worked-out gold mine, and with all their assumed superior intelligence, blunted, perhaps, by constant contact with greed, and with minds intoxicated by the stimulant of illegitimate gain, they were unable to cope with the problems of retribution—the unexploded blasts in the abandoned shafts."

Such a book cannot be justly called "bad" advertising for the West. It calls direct attention to the immense resources of the Pacific Coast, and to its wonderful opportunities. The fact of attempting fraud of so stupendous a character discloses in itself that the prize was great which moved men to chance their reputations and jeopardize their personal liberty. They were at least seeking something that was worth the having. Men were not likely to take these chances unless the achievement was sufficiently alluring to excite their cupidity to the last degree. Many instances are cited, and illustrations given, showing the enormous increase in the value of timber lands since the looting of the public domain became such a recognized art. And all these facts, surrounded as they are by such evidence, are bound to produce an effect by attracting the attention of legitimate investment to a country that can offer such phenomenal returns. In the introductory Mr. Stevens makes it clear that the stigma put upon Oregon as a state by the land fraud revelations, is not justly borne. He says in part:

"Practically all the arrangements for this immense plunder originated among unscrupulous residents of distant parts—in the ranks of the devout moneyed aristocracy beyond the Rocky Mountains, and it has remained for the honest manhood of Oregon to redeem the stigma of dishonor that has been left across its fair name by the hand of Eastern commercial greed. Careful analysis of the situation indicates

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The timber-looted states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are blamed for the production of the majority of wholesale looters in the West, and it would seem the contention is borne out by the facts stated in the book. Principal credit for the suppression of the land frauds is given to ex-Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock, and It Is claimed that his greatest lustre shines forth as a limelight upon the class of enemies he has made by the operation. The book declares that every scoundrel in the land has denounced him for doing what was his plain duty as an honest official, and that If any reward comes to him, it must be In the future from the hearts of a grateful people, not from politicians. Some of the accusations contained In the book cannot be well Ignored by the executive branch of the National Government, though of course many of the cases described have already been, or are being, investigated and prosecuted. Some of the cases have been "outlawed," but this book is another evidence of the truth that "the statute of limitations" has no application to history. The story is one of intrigue throughout, reciting in a most comprehensive manner the systematic way in which the lands of the West were looted in the interests of wealth and unscrupulous syndicates, and all-powerful and equally unscrupulous railroad companies. It gives a "view from behind the scenes."
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DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN, is a history of "The Father of Oregon," by Frederick V. Holman, Director of the Oregon Historical Society. The work is, as its author says, "a plain and simple narrative of the life of the most commanding personality In the history of the Pacific Coast, during the second quarter of the last century." Although comparatively a young man, ho was sent out by the Hudson's Bay Company to become the chief factor of that great monopoly In the far Western wilderness, beyond the Rocky Mountains. A man of action, whose Ideal was Napoleon, yet just and humane, he soon became the absolute ruler of the Pacific Coast from San Francisco to Alaska. For a score of years he retained this commanding position, the hope and support of all Oregon pioneers, king of a thousand Canadians, autocrat of a hundred thousand Indians. He laid the cornerstone of the State of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

Of all the men whose life and deeds are an essential part of the history of the Oregon country. Dr. John McLoughlin stands supremely first. Writers on the early settlement of that region make frequent mention of his name and dwell generously on his achievements. Although dead a half-century, it is only within the last few years that his work has come to be duly appreciated, monuments erected in his honor, and memorials of learning raised to his memory. The political strife and religious bigotry which cast a cloud over his latter days have passed away, and he stands out today in bold relief, as the first man in the history of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. He was truly one of the noblest men who ever gave a life of labor in the spread of American civilization.

Mr. Holman has made little attempt to avail himself of the opportunities for literary effect to be found in a subject so replete with romance, but has given a valuable and conscientious contribution to the history of the Northwest. A good half of the book is devoted to illustrative documents referred to in the text, valuable data to which the interested reader could only otherwise have access with difficulty.
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WYOMING, by William McLeod Raine. "Gone into the fourth edition." While not an ambitious story, nor a labored character novel, it is thoroughly enjoyable as light reading. The characters are sketched vigorously, the movement swift, and the style easy and natural. G. W. Dillingham & Company, New York 11.50.

LIFE AND WRITINGS OF WILLIAM LAW SYMONDS, compiled and edited by William Winter, and privately printed for Joseph W, Symonds, represents a labor of love, rescuing from obscurity a literary reputation, not at any time extensive, though within a limited circle unquestionably brilliant at Mr, Symonds* death forty-six years ago. It is the record of a beautiful life, early cut short, but full of worthy achievements, and its perusal is not without profit and inspiration.

THE WHITE TRAIL, by Alex. MacDonald, claims to be a story from life, "not a single character mentioned therein has been created to fulfill the purposes of the story-tellers' art." It is a lively tale of early" days in the Klondike, full of the romantic, much hardship, gun play and other melodramatic accessories. Something of the order of those fascinating old stories we used to read when we were boys about "Life Among the Bushwhackers," and "Adventures in Australia." The author Insists that the story deals with actual facts about actual people, that the many incidents throughout may be accepted as having actually occurred. Of course the knowledge that one is reading real history may add interest to a story, but "The White Trail" hardly needs any such crutch to lean on. It is graphically told, wholesome in effect, and entertaining.

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THE JAPANESE NATION IN EVOLUTION, by William Elliot Griffis, author of "Fire-Fly Lovers and Other Fairy Tales of Old Japan," "The Mikado's Empire," "Korea the Hermit Nation," etc. For years a resident of the Orient, and in close touch with the life and affairs of Japan, Dr. Griffis commands attention as one of the foremost critics and students of that sub- ject. His style is forceful and entertain- ing, and there is the stamp of fair judg- ment, and the evidence of thorough knowl- edge. This distinguished educator organ- ized the first public schools on the west coast of Japan. He is the only foreigner living who, as a guest at a daimo's castle, saw the feudal system of Japan in opera- tion. He received honors and decorations from the Mikado, and many of his pupils of 1870-74 are now among the ambassa- dors, judges, statesmen and scientific men of Japan.

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