Dollars and Sense, by Col. Wm. C. Hunter. Published 1908.

Thanks to anonymous for post-processing this project!

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Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle. Published 1908.

This compendium edition of some of Carlyle’s works includes an introduction by W. H. Hudson.

I volunteered to post-process this book because I have seen many references to Sartor Resartus in mid-19th century periodicals. I think that it was sensational because of the question of Teufelsdröckh’s existence.

The Judgment of Eve, by May Sinclair, illustrated by John Wolcott Adams.

This short novel has a message, but I’m not quite sure what it is. The main character marries a poor clerk because he recited poetry to her, and she was hoping for an “intellectual life.” However, she ends up bearing him 7 children (6 living) in 7 years, and then dies of exhaustion (no wonder!). Her sister, in contrast, married the rich farmer, had one child who died, and knew she was too frail to bear more, so didn’t even try.

Crappy story, but interesting illustrations by Adams. He shows very well the “clerkness” of the leading man and the exhaustion of the woman.

according to Col. William C. Hunter,

One of the prime requisites to a successful career is concentration of thought. Few things will dissipate thought as much as over-reading of newspapers.

The newspaper starts in with the first page, and by the time you have finished the last column on the last page you may have read a hundred articles, each one of these articles touching on a different line of thought. The daily newspaper contains climaxes of all kinds. Each article is a distinct change of thought. The daily newspaper gives us statistics, sorrow, laughter, crime, passion, death, lies, humor, and so on all through the gamut of the scale of human experience.

The man who craves the newspaper soon finds his line of thought frequently interrupted, side-stepped, drawn, cut off and dispersed.

Already complaining of “too much information” in 1908. What would Col. Hunter say about blogs?

(thanks to a DPer for pointing this out!)