April, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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out-of-the-way corners of the world can 

 ever feel quiet again, for he hears always 

 a compelling voice that 'calls him night and 

 day' to go forth on the chase once more. 

 Years ago I pursued impressions and ex- 

 periences in the far West on the frontier — 

 there was a frontier then. And since that 

 time, whenever chance has offered, that has 

 been my holiday pastime, among the Ken- 

 tucky Mountains, in the Taurus, in Monte- 

 negro, in India. Everywhere there is in- 

 terest, for everywhere there is human na- 

 ture, but whoever has once come under the 

 spell of the Orient knows that henceforth 

 there is no choice ; footloose, he must al- 

 ways turn eastwards." This spell of the 

 East is well brought to the reader by Miss 

 Kendall and "A Wayfarer in China" is 

 one of the most fascinating books of the 

 year. An excellent map of the Chinese 

 Empire has been placed before the opening 

 chapter and the text is interspersed with 

 illustrations far above the run of those that 

 usually accompany books descriptive of 

 foreign lands. 



THE PENALTIES OF LITERARY 

 GREATNESS 



PENALTIES of literary greatness might 

 almost be proved to exceed those of 

 literary unsuccess and obscurity. Among 

 recent celebrities, Mark Twain lamented in 

 his last years that his popularity and prom- 

 inence made it impossible for him to gratif) 

 his longing to visit once more in a quiet way 

 the scenes and friends of his youth. When 

 a disguise was suggested he shook his head 

 "Xo," said he, sorrowfully, "my drawl 

 would give me away." Mr. A. C. Benson 

 has in one of his books well depicted some 

 of the annoyances that his own acceptability 

 with readers has brought him. The greal 

 Dumas to go back a few decades, probably 

 enjoyed all the popularity he achieved; bul 

 the later attachment of his name to works 

 rather feebly imitative of his genius might 

 not have pleased him so well. Walter Scott 

 was another who suffered at the hands of 

 unscrupulous imitators. A writer in the 

 New York "Evening Post" calls attention 

 anew to pseudo-Scott catchpenny publica- 

 tions foisted on an unsuspecting public in 

 the days before the author of ''Waverley" 

 had revealed himself. "Walladmor" came 

 out in Germany as an attempt to supply the 

 demand for a Waverley novel at the annual 

 book-fair when no genuine product was 

 forthcoming; and, nearer home, one William 

 Fearman boldly issued a fourth and fifth 

 series of "Tales of My Landlord" as from 

 the hand of the Gandercleuch schoolmaster 

 and parish clerk, Jedediah Cleishbotham. 

 These spurious romances, "Pontefracl 

 Castle" and "The Fairy of Glas Lyn," their 

 unscrupulous fabricator extolled as equal in 

 merit to their predecessors in the series, and 

 he wrote an impudent letter to John Ballan- 

 tyne in answer to the bookseller's protest 

 against the fraud. But Scott refused to take 

 any action in the matter, confident that the 

 counterfeits would enjoy but a brief cur- 

 rency; and he was soon proved to be in the 

 right, as the bogus "Tales" failed to reach 

 e^en a second edition, while the genuine ones 

 have been reprinted hundreds of times. 



M. Thoulet discusses such cases in Les 

 Annates de I'lnstitut Oceanographique and 

 suggests a plausible explanation. He thinks 

 we must accept the idea of some sort of 

 fixation around the pebbles of an envelope 

 of air or vapor of water. The density of 

 the body transported would cease to be that 

 of the pebble, and become that of a mass of 

 combined -olid and fluid (or gaseous) mat- 

 ter, which would be sensibly lighter with re- 

 spect to its volume. 



The Winged Message 



Noah's messenger was a dove. In 

 Solomon's time, pigeons were trained 

 to carry messages. Brutus used them 

 at the siege of Modena. They served 

 the Turks in their fights against the 

 Crusaders. In mediaeval wars they 

 were more useful than ever before. 



France had a carrier-pigeon mail 

 service, with messages reduced by 

 photography and read through a 

 microscope. 



Even today carrier pigeons are 

 utilized as news-bearers in isolated 

 parts of Europe. 



In America, the land of the tele- 

 phone, the carrier pigeon is bred only 

 for racing. The winged word has 

 taken the place of the winged mes- 

 senger. 



Pigeons may fly more than a mile 

 a minute, but the telephone is as 

 quick as speech itself. 



The dove is the emblem of peace. 

 The telephone is the instrument of 

 peace. The telephone lines of the 

 Bell System unite a hundred million 

 people in one national family. 



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