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Show B00KEH WASinNOTON'S BOOK. There hae been perhaps half a elnz-en elnz-en public men In Amerluin hlftor) who ma) be tailed great-origin lis, and the tountr) Is graduiillj waking up to tho fact that Hooker Washington Is one of them No one lan rid his latest book, 'Ohnrottei Itulldlng without 111 living nt some such i oneluslon There Is more sound hard common sinse in It than In any other book tint has )et been written dealing with the raie problun nnd )et there Is ,er) little rai i rob-lem rob-lem In It It Is a lemurkiblo piece uf w nrk. The nutoblography of Mr Washington Washing-ton lublisheil under tho title Vp fiom Mnn)." was wldel) read more on iinount of the unique foits which It letordei than because ot Its Ilteror) merit, nlthough Hit latter wus b) no means small the riiture of the Ameilcui Negio' jttn.i ted attention beiause It was the utteiancont n reiog-nlred reiog-nlred len lei who hid hitherto been sll-tnt sll-tnt on such subjects The presmt work Is of a dlffcient niture It goes dawn to bidroik and grapples with realltleu. It Is nude up milnl) of the Sunda) evening tnlks glen by the principal of Tuskrgce to hla stu Itnts There Is not much waste time on Mr. Washington nnd he hnd not spent un) time on mere creation of llternlure which might hae been spent on his school He Is a man of one Idea and that Idea Is Tuskegee but It po'sesses so many nspects and phases thnt there Is nothing narrowing about It All that he does In the wn) of writing speaking, traollng or stud) Is carefull) considered In Its relation to this one end: but a man who takes a ruw plantation negio, often hardly more thnn a saagc, and tackles the problem of making him an educated hc-Ing hc-Ing who can earn ft good IKIng In a cMllzcd clt). Is not likely to tlnd his work dwaillng his facultlct Washing-ton Washing-ton Times. |