Elbert Hubbard

THIS book has especial interest for those old enough — and not very old at that — to remember the extraordinary vogue of the little magazine called the Philistine, and of the remarkable genius who produced it. Younger persons who are curious about the state of the American mind twentyfive years ago will get a good deal of light from this excellent study of Hubbard and his career, if they read it carefully. Most of us probably have never heard more of him than his name, it that, yet in his day he had a great deal to do with clearing and precipitating American public opinion, and his influence was, for the most part, good. His activities seem incredible now, but there they were. The book presents him fairly and fully, and, though it has no merit of style, it is so well organized that it is easily read.