Show P’cLur rJ ouy tiosr t ‘ SCOTT WATSON KLY in lilmut the piovei Idol "blue moon' u is there Is book so m which liortiuit as to justify us in regai ding its appear anee ns "new s" In order to deserve attention as a news event it usually lias to reveal some iiitherto unknown facts about a subject to interest of considerable which In some a large ninnhe of people cases a new hlogrnjihy will measure tmt It is a com up to that standard for any pnnitively rare occurrence tiling both uew and of vltnl impor t nee to lie discovered about a man great enough to answer the qualified to a Interest tlon of “considerable In America large number of people" about tlie only men of whom tlils-- u mild be true would be Washington and Lincoln There have been so ninny books written nbout Abraham Lincoln — the number runs Into Jhe hundreds— and has the whole field if Lineolniano thnt It been so thoroughly combed not seein possible to' discover Nor Is It mix thine new about him likely that n ohw Lincoln book woull ordinarily excite more than casual However Interest and discussion within rei ant months there tins ap pea red a new woik on Lincoln which lias been “news" Jn thnt news stories bine ben written about It This ad slit ion to the store of knowledge about U Ihe two he Grant Flinnnclpntor volume -- work written fby 'the Int3 Unite former J Beveridge Albert senator' under from Indiana States tie title of “Abraham Lincoln and published by The Houghton Mifflin company it Is a striking fact - about thU "Lincoln" that the literary critics lime been unanimous In pronouncing It the most Important study of Lin coin Hint tins yet been written and devoted no less than one newspaper a frill page to a review of It by a He was man of natlonnl prominence I’hnule G Bowers “keynote r” at the at national ' convention Dcmocrntlc Inst year a friend of BevHouston eridge and himself a biographer and In his review historian of renown he cn III “It seems Incredible that we hint lord to wait for almost aeventy Lincoln deal a for of biography years with the first fifty log ndequntely vears of Ills life The monumental of Nlcolnj and Hay was biography written with frank partisanship and worse still under the critical eye of Todd Lincoln who until the end of his long life appeared more prone to concealment than to revein wns e ‘on The Herndon biography ri’fprosi humbly the most starkly hn lint lls very honesty damned II In l e eves ot those who preferred to deify rather llinn to explain Its sub put Bv that time we had entered fob iierhal upon the liwod with h flood of biographies wiiiten In the spirit of extravagant praNe and Ihe result has been thnt the Lincoln who lived before the de Dy ELMO re ale until now" So we have had the great number of books on Lincoln written by every nud of person— by biographers historians by teachers professional end preachers by lawyers by poets ns one re And nml by novelists has pointed out “Hlilierio viewer oew book on Lincoln has been lpe every Legs Are Bad Roxera ot today could no more hex 2f rounds or niorelhnn they euld They will swim Ihe Kngllsb channel bouts where they are asked to dm go 12 or 15 rounds They prefer Hie J roundel 8 Iml will go In Tor s fill Hovers legs will no longer premium curry them Boxers rurelv wiik and l he old Ilmen they iildiot road work 15 miles s diy n nil t run from in form— not bill boxers Most ol hem walk In hlmkt a day are all In nfit--i laixlng 5 rounds How does It happen then that the real Lincoln has ut lust been revealed bv a biographer? Perhaps the answer can be found In a statement by Mr Bowers In which he commented upon the fact that Beveridge does Justice to the true greatness of Stephen A Douglas ns It has never been done writes He historian before by "There was probably a psychological renson for the Beveridge understand Ing of Douglas— for there are some In both the striking resemblances gifts and careers of the two men Both were orators fighters possessed masterfulness of dash and a certain both won renown early of manner both were chairmen of the senate committee oq territories and helped mold legislation that made states both Incurred the enmity of powerful In their In own party" elements the same way It may be said thnt had an understanding of Beveridge Lincoln because both were skillful In who became statesmen politicians Ihe truest sense of the word and Id In the arena his own disappointment of politics Beveridge could apprecwhich came iate the disappointment to Lincoln early In his political career So It seems entirely plausible that when “a statesman looks at Lincoln" especially at the period In Lin coin’s life when the evolution of the into the statesman was politician tnklng place as It was In the period w hlch In his two Beveridge covers volumes there should result an adeof the forces quate understanding which were shaping his life and which were to make him the great man that he was The story of how this latest Lin ' coin biographer set about and accomplished his task Is In Itself a romantic one Several years ago Beveridge noted principally as a brilliant orator and one of the outstanding person alltles In the United States senate the literary world with bis amazed “Life of John Marshall" It was hailed by scholars not as only one of the finest biographies that had ever been written by an American but as a noteworthy contribution to American history because Beveridge had irmde a sweeping and magnificent of the early days of Interpretation the republic through the life of the When In l!22 great chief Justice suffered his final disap Beveridge In politics and saw that he polntment had missed a promised in greatness this field of activity he again turned to writing and determined to take up the thread of American the again story Interpreting a later phase of It than the Marshall phase In'1 terms of the career of a man greater even than Marshall— Abrnhnin Lincoln Of that ambitious project and what It Involved Bowers snys to aav Mr Needier Beveridge did not approarh his coloaaal taak In the spirit of an Iconoclast nor In that of a blind worshiper willing to proatllute hs—irrt-- a a biographer- - to he- prefer vafion of a myth We have heard him have had the Bay that ha would hardly courage to undertone the taak at all had he had lha alighteat conception ot the superficiality with which Ihe Held had been aearrh'd before It maant It waa a tremendoue taak weary monthr with muaty manoacrlpta the long demerted avenuee searching that promised the possibility of new light enaminlra thousands of old let The American association the has re only tiiselmll league tlinf malncd Intact since lls organization was organized 27 veam ago dropped out lor llicee years bill t iinn d (Dulh) nirk Pueblo whose hull earning ahll mediocre I'oJoymlo p ity team hull fool feitied throughout lege the H'sky Mcnniaifl eoiifcrcmy iwo seasons lias lieen mimed cuptuln lie LlJ!' eleven Karl ll irry qiiirierian k Hie fr i X Company So and so's conception of Lincoln Sella or Beveridge t however Linto picM'iit not Beveridge’s lull coln Lincoln What Is more Beveridge did what he sturted out to do" ters turning the Innumerable pagaa of old yellowing newspapers and travelon many ing over the continent as well as fruitful journey fruitless had he was when he Scarcely begun of how appalled at the discovery the work had been done adequately before Myth sfler myth faded out before his searchlight Thus quite he said to the writer that If early he were asked to apeak on Lincoln he would decline “I do not know lust ftow what think of Lincoln" As he proceeded Ihe tank grew In until at times he fell so magnitude that he half utterly discouraged wished to abandon it Instead of hay Ing before him the not too laborl ous mission of a new- Interpretation he found himself confronted with the himself to the necessity of subjecting hardships of pioneering for facta and he grimly burkled down to his Job Ons day he half sei loualy told Jus tics Holmes a neighbor at Beverly farms that should he hear of the In the woods of a haggard old man dead from exhaustion he would know that It was a friend of his who had been foolish enough to attempt "Life of Lincoln" One Instance of the painstaking la bor which to tile Beveridge gave monumental tusk Is that wherein he obtained uhout Lin big Information coln'8 career as a member of the Illl noia legislature Other biographers have hurried over this period partly becuuse the only Informa Hon on It Is coutulned in Die legls latlve reports which are Included In several huge volumes printed in small What Bev type and having uo Index erldge did was to go to Springfield volumes dig out these and with the aid of a magnifying The result glass go over them all was Instead of few husty para graphs such as other biographers have written about Llnimln (be legls lator Beveridge's study devotes 137 pages to this period which had a vital In shaping the character Importance and later career of Lincoln Another instance ilea In the statement that he wrote and rewrote the chapters of bis hooks not once nor twice but many times One of them was rewritten 15 times before he was satisfied with It “At this point the pen of the writer stopped leaving the chapter In Its first draft"' Such Is the statement made at the end of the chapter on “The Great Debate" In the second volume of Beveridge's “At Lincoln Mr Beveridge's elbow were the voand Schurz's lumes of the Debates autobiography open at the pngea whence he had taken the last quota tions or references On the table near his hand were the heaps of notes prepared for the chapter extracts from letters newspapers proceedings aDd of conventions and legislatures photostats of the more important he hud found in public nianuscrltKa and private collection" For Death had stayed Ihe bund of the great blog rapher of a great man In April 1!i2T Albert J Beveridge died suddenly In the prime of Ids life with Ida story half lold Burton nnother noted lln coin blograph hits well snld of I’ev erldge's “Lincoln" “It ends “This bert's Unfinished Symphony" In Is one of the grentesi tragedies literary history" says Bowers whe pays this final tribute to Beveridge In “However Ihe we mny relolce realization that he Ims done for the first fifty vears tof Lincoln's ' do Tint' which has never been done and no other could do so well lie has raised In his Marshall and Lincoln a monument to himself which will out last marble and before which future will pay homage to hlf generations genius as an Interpreter of the Amor lean spirit" 1 s ‘"V’ ' ?' 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Old bell tower which was erected In 1824 In the Capital square of Richmond Va and which Is to be restored by the Daughters of the AmerThe tower was erectican Revolution first “standing ed to house Virginia's army" the public guard which was maintained In the Capital equnre to keep order The bell In the tower was used to summon the members of the troop to the defense of the commonwealth PRIZE WINNING Friends’ meeting house at Irving and Thirteenth streetThe Orthodox where Mr and Mrs Hoover will attend services during Washington of Ihe White Ilouaa their occupancy N Night Club at Lido-Venic- e BOB An Fxcelsior Regret Hofmann The Boston fans will regret the passing ol Fred HofumTin Ilteh hig catcher who was mild by Hie lied Sox lle other day lo Ihe I’acifi llofuiaiin has a lot of ier league sonulliy and a winning smile on the field and was Miular with Ihe fans at He first came up with Fenway park Ihe Yanks eight years ago He was s hustling yoiingstei Hieu and looked as If he was going lo develop lulu a slur But he ailed to make ouli tier a ml was lei go N T's uiiuMinl club picture at of Hie ' attractive ITEMS OF INTEREST Miss Dorothy Stewart with the huge hei loving cup wlilih was awarded New lit Mire boh “New Talk It York Hntrdrosers’ iiilnn com petition at its annuul ennv ntlon Glasgow Scotland Is abolishing one cent street car fares Skim milk contains all the valuable food elements of whole milk exrep' fat VIA Ihe Irish Free State occu women engaged In "professional pidlons" One fourth of the apiilm ion l engaged r giving education nation’s entln either gettln In exclusive and famous more diiij cow India possesses than any other country Billboards have been Hawaii of Hie highways The practice of removing snow fro first received orgn ii 'd athighways tention In Jfi21 f A machine to test the fnsines dyed fabrics during' laundry pi nee- es has been Invented f The tensile strength of to ten Ihe common nurse shark l limes the strength of oxhide f U i : |