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Let any of those many all knowing
critics who affirmed bo vehemently that
Rudyard Kipling had forerer blighted
his own prospects as an author by re
moving from India to the United States
read "The Brushwood Boy" in tho De
cember Century, beforo definitely de
ciding that their dictum has held, or
holds good. This littlo story, the lat
est that Kipling has published, is also
one of his best. While it is true that a
p:rt of the scene is laid n India, no one
will question that th9 idea, tho
"theme" of tbo story is entirely inde
pendent of Indian life. "fteorgie,' tho
hero, is the "Brushwood Boy." Ho is
not, as the title would indicate, a low
caste native of India, but is a typical
beef eating, athletic, hearty, honest Eng
lish boy with an inordinate capacity for
dreaming, and his dreams always start
out from a brushwood pile on the sea
coast hence the title. Up dreams as
a boy of "AnnieanLouise,'and with her
explores tho dark continents of dream
land. Asa "grown-up,'' on service in
India, ho still dreams of "Annieau
Louise," also a "grown-up," and together
they continue their mystical journeys
and travels in the land beyond the river
of Nod. One day Georgio returns to
England and meets "AnnieanLouiso,"
the veritable companion of his dreams.
He hears her eing, and she sings a song
of their dreamland wanderings. Tho
upshot of the matter is that explana
tions follow, and Georgie finds to his joy
and amazement that "AnnieanLouise'
has dreamed the same dreams he has
dreamed, dreamed them all the years
that he has dreamed them. Of course
they are married, engaged on an ac
quaintanceship of some eight hours;
but theu have they not known each
other for years and years in their
dreams?
The story is a very strong and fasci
nating one, and is brilliantly executed.
It shows, as I said, that Kipling's so
journ in civilization has not deprived
him of his powers as a story teller.
There seems to be tome diversity in
testimony as to times in tb.9 east. Some
returned pilgrims tell ua that times are
as bad in the east as they are in Ne
braska. But Prof. W.G. L. Taylor, of
the state university, who was east dur
ing tho holiday vacation, bear3 testi
mony to the contrary.
"East of the Mississippi I found every
thing all right," said Prof. Taylor,
"times are good, business prospering,
and everything going at full blast.
"The trouble here in Nebraska," con
tinued the professor, "is due to the hand
of God, We have had no rain and so
have raised no crops. We have con
sumed, but we have not produced. As
a consequence, business and prices have
had to adjust themselves to the now re
lations between production and con
sumption. This adjustment must al
ways come, and it comes nt the expense
of the individual. The individual suf
fers poverty and bankruptcy, until a
sufficient number of tbem have been
'cleaned out,' then the equilibrium is
reached again. We are just now in the
'cleaning out" stage and that is what's
the matter."'
Prof. Taylor, it will be seen, is inclined
to lay the full blame for the present fi
nancial stringency in Nebraska to pure
ly local causes, notably, two successive
failures of crops. And as Nebraska is
yet a new state, with but little produc
tive wealth save her agricultural indus
tries, two such calamities, the one fol
lowing right on the heela of the other,
could hardly produce any other effect
than what we are suffering at the pres
ent time.
In Prof. Taylor's explanation there is
hope rather than despair for Nebraska
and Nebraskans. Nothing is more con
stant than climate. Nebraska is a great
agricultural country the greatest in
world. Tho rains, so long withheld,
must come, will come. It is folly to
doubt it. It is the silliest kind of pes
simism to predict everything bad when
al! tho lawB of nature point to a return
of prosperity with tho coming of spring.
Thero never was a better time than
now, wheu it can be had almost for a
song, to invest in Nebraska property.
There can bo no speculation as to Ne
braska's future. "One swallow does not
make a summer," neither does two
years of dry weather make a desert.
A few years ago, when Dr. Sherman,
of the university, issued his "Analytics
of Literature," tho ideas therein enunci
ated were pooh hoocd and laughed at in
almost every college and educational
centre of the country. Dr. Sherman
taught in tho "Analytics" that liter
ature must be studied as botany is
studied, by an analysis into its element
ary parts. The "effects" and methods,
tho truth and beauty of litenturo could
be learned and known by common
people, by people who are not them
selves distinctly "literary," Dr. Sherman
believed, if they only undertook the
study of literature and its elements in a
scientific and logical manner. Tho
"Analytics" were published as furnish
ing that manner. And the critics and
literary lights of the cultured east could
not find terms in which to express their
contempt for Dr. Sherman and his
'crazy ideas." They declared that an
"analytics of literature" was sacrilege,
that it was an act of vandalism. They
affirmed that the picking of a great
poem or tragedy to pieces and studying
it piecemeal, making a microscopic ex
amination of its internal anatomy, so to
speak, would forever destroy ono's ap
preciation of literature. "If my stu
dents can not understand and fully ap
preciate 'Hamlet,' said a Yale profes
sor, "there is no way in which they can
bo taught to do so."
But Dr. Sherman thought differently.
He held quietly on in tho method out
lined in his "Analytics," and conducted
classes in Shakespeare, Browning and
Tennyson, studying the greatest works
of these greatest writers in a strictly
laboratory method. And behold! his
method succeeded, despite the croaks of
the critics. The hayseed youths from
tho prairies of Nebraska were obtaining,
under Dr. Sherman's guidance, a kno wl
edge and appreciation of the truo power
and beauty of literature that was a
closed door to tho much cultured col
lego men of the effete east.
And as a result Dr. Sherman is tho
prophet and seer of the new movement
toward literature for the masses. His
method and his "Analytics are being
adopted slowly but steadily and surely
by the leading universities of the coun
try. There can hardly be any question
that in a few jears more the "Analytics'
will stand entirely vindicated, and Dr.
Sherman will have achieved a triumph
reflecting glory and renown not only on
himself and on the university, but on
western scholarship and culture as
well.
In the meantime, there is very grave
danger unless all signs fail, that before
next fall Dr. Sherman will be himself
"adopted," together with his book and
his ideas, by a plutocratic university not
a thousand miles from here.
The poor old Journal made an un
usually long-eared jackass of itself, even
for itself, in discussing the law of libel
recently. The Journal has more than
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once distinguished itself by the produc
tion of psuedo scientific editorials of
fearful and wonderful construction and
amazing philosophy, as those who re
member its "Atavism and "Swing of
The Pendulum," editorials of last year
can testify, but in this last editorial on
libel, itoutjournaled itself, in a learned,
be-whiskered and be-spectacled essay on
the law of libel, the ponderous geniusof
that sheet soberly and solemnly pro
posed that newspaper libel should be
punished with the same punishment
that would have been ladled out to the
person libelled, bad he committed the
crime alleged. For instance, if the
Journal should accuse "Prof." Austin
of rising up in the dark and stilly night
and splattering Prof. Fossler's unpatri
otic brains about the room with a
hatchet, and if "Prof." Austin had not
yet committed that act of poetic justice .
and vindication of "Old Glory," then.
Col. Will Owen Jones should be hanged
by the neck untd dead. Similarly, if
the Omaha Bee should mildly suggest
that the Hon. Tom Majors was a venal
vampire and the Hon. Tom shoulJ suc
ceed in proving an alibi, the owner of the
"pride of two continents" would besum
marily dealt with as a blood sucker, and
disposed of according to law.
This novel and truly original emana
tion from the legal slot of the Journal's
think tank has aroused the staid and re
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