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THE CHICAGO BANKER
September 25, 1909]
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ocratic faith. I was particularly pleased with the selections he made for the new tariff commission. These men are all essentially business men. What they do in the tariff commission will be done with a view to benefiting business conditions and not to patching up holes in any one’s political fences. The tariff is a subject that could mighty well be taken out of politics. It is extremely difficult to get any good tariff legislation when the shapers of that legislation are ruled in their action almost entirely by political considerations.”
W. R. Craven
“Postal savings banks, if established, would not interfere with the business of savings banks or even compete with them, as so many people think they would,” said W. R. Craven of Day-ton, O., at the bankers convention. “As a matter of fact the people who would deposit their savings with the postoffice banks would be those who now keep their savings in a stocking, carefully hoarded away.”
senior secondary school classes, as well as suited to inspire and guide the individual writer, amateur or professional, who wishes to improve his art.
Published by Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, New York, at $1.25.
Robert J. Lowry
Col. Lowry was much sought by the interviewers. The South and a good part of the North accept his views without much question. To those inquiring he said:	“We mix politics
with business too much in this country. The two should be separate. I am opposed to the professional politician and all his works. I believe that many of the appointive offices should be filled with business men, regardless of party affiliations, and the politicians turned off to work for a living. Down South we are breaking away from party ties. The democratic party is losing the hold it has held for so long over the great body of the people. I am glad to see, too, that President Taft has set a precedent by appointing to place in his cabinet men who are of the dem-
“The Calling of Dan Matthews”
The Book Supply Co., 220 Monroe Street, Chicago, has brought out a new book by Harold Bell Wright, author of “The Shepherd of the Hills,” and “That Printer of Udells.” The new book is entitled “The Calling of Dan Matthews.” The new book, while different in treatment and style from the author’s earlier works, is a combination of the wonderful “motive power” of That Printer of Udell’s and the beautiful “story power” of The Shepherd of the Hills, in one vital thrilling life-giving force of “thought power,” out of which “the ministry of daily life” is the all-compelling incentive that grips the life and determination of its readers.
Big Dan, that manly man of convictions; Hope Farwell, so delightfully refreshing; the old Doctor, true philosopher and poet, and poor little crippled Denny, so sympathetic, loving everything and everybody, are masterful character creations—the best Mr. Wright has yet done.
He spent three years in writing That Printer of Udell’s. The Book Supply Company accepted it for publication after it had been declined by several other publishers. By the time the first copy was offered for sale, nearly $10,000.00 had been expended in plates, advertising, etc. This splendid story has now reached a sale of over 100,000 copies.
Four years later when The Shepherd of the Hills was ready for publication, Mr. Wright was tendered a sum by the Book Supply Company, for its sole ownership, but he wisely preferred its publication on the royalty basis. Now comes “The Calling of Dan Matthews” with big advance sales and added glory to the author. Illustrations by Keller. Price, $1.50.
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Justus Miles Foreman’s “Jason”
Harper & Bros., New York, have issued a splendid new tale by Foreman, entitled “Jason.” It is probably not saying too much to state that this is the best novel Mr, Foreman has yet written.
An impressionable young Frenchman falls in love with an American girl in Paris, and undertakes a search for her young brother, who has disappeared. One day, hot on the trail, the hero sees the lad from a high walk above a garden on a suburban road, calls to him, drops into the garden to follow him, is shot in the leg, and kept a prisoner. Some conspiracy is afoot. The lovely Irish girl who is with the lad, the hero suspects for a decoy, and that means suffering, because he finds himself in love with her—really, this time. The American girl, it seems, was only a fancy. The escape from the mysterious house is a scene of thrilling climax, and the solution of the plot delightfully adroit.
With a clever plot, a dashing narrative, and a chivalrous love motive, this is what men call a “ripping” story all the way through. The hero is a man’s man—the kind that most captivates a
How to Write a Short Story
Would be authors will revel in a new volume by J. Berg Essenwein entitled “Writing the Short Story.” Mr. Essenwein is the Lippincott’s Magazine editor and knows. The short story, now the most popular literary form, is engaging the study of writers unnumbered, and the interest of an increasing host of readers. Its art is gradually crystallizing, its significance is deepening, and educators everywhere are giving courses for its study. This volume embodies the practical principles of short story structure as recognized by American and British magazine editors, and as practiced by authors whose products are judged to be of the first order. At the same time, the body of sound scholarship has not been lost sight of in considering the popular and marketable short story, so that the treatise is peculiarly adapted to the needs of college and