Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world.

After returning home he went on a lecture circuit and wrote The People of the Polar North ( 1908 ), a combination travel journal and scholarly account of Inuit folklore.

Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French.

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

One of his students, Camille Vallaux, wrote the two-volume book Géographie sociale, published in 1908 and 1911.

In 1908 Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, wrote to his counterpart at Bristol, welcoming a new university worthy of:

The British stage magician Nevil Maskelyne wrote in 1908:

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

He incorrectly believed that an i on the end of a name meant " like " in French ; but Houdini, his own career and reputation established by that time, later lost his youthful respect for Robert-Houdin, believing that he took undue credit for other magicians ' innovations, and wrote The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin in 1908.

Baum also wrote sequels in 1907, 1908, and 1909.

In 1908, Lenin wrote a philosophical work, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism ( published 1909 ), in which he criticized Machism and the views of " Russian Machists ".

From 1890 to 1908, 10 Southern states wrote new constitutions with provisions that included literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that permitted otherwise disqualified voters whose grandfathers voted ( thus allowing some white illiterates to vote ), some with the aim and effect of re-imposing racially motivated restrictions on the voting process that disenfranchised blacks.

Christian Archibald Herter, an American physician, wrote a book in 1908 on children with coeliac disease, which he called " intestinal infantilism.

Other notable Feydeau farces include L ' Hôtel du libre échange, Le Dindon ( Sauce for the Goose, 1896 ) and the series of plays he wrote after 1908 grouped under the title " Du Mariage au Divorce " (" On purge bébé ", " Feu la mère de madame ", Léonie est en avance " and " Mais ne te promène donc pas toute nue ").

Maurice Maeterlinck, also a symbolist playwright, wrote The Blind ( 1890 ), The Intruder ( 1890 ), Interior ( 1891 ), Pelléas and Mélisande ( 1892 ), and The Blue Bird ( 1908 ).

* Herman Koppel ( 1908 – 1998 ) who wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets.

Soviet player Alexei Pavlovich Sokolsky ( 1908 – 1969 ) wrote a monograph on this opening in 1963, Debyut 1 b2-b4.

Theodore Roethke ( 1908 – 1963 ) wrote of his poetry: The greenhouse " is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven-on-earth.

Natsume Sōseki, who is often compared with Mori Ōgai, wrote I Am a Cat ( 1905 ) with humor and satire, then depicted fresh and pure youth in Botchan ( 1906 ) and Sanshirô ( 1908 ).

In 1908, the Austrian architectural critic Joseph August Lux wrote a book called Künstlerische Kodakgeheimnisse ( Artistic Secrets of the Kodak ) in which he championed the use of the camera for its cultural potential.

He wrote it on a 1908 Woodstock typewriter, which he continued to use in writing every book of his career.

On 7 March 1908, Gandhi wrote in the Indian Opinion of his time in a South African prison: " Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised — the convicts even more so.

Albert Bigelow Paine, a New England author, wrote about fly fishing in The Tent Dwellers, a book about a three week trip he and a friend took to central Nova Scotia in 1908.

Gallé wrote a book on art entitled Écrits pour l ' art 1884-89 (" Writings on Art 1884-89 "), which was published posthumously in 1908.

Writing the book The Presidential Succession in 1910 ( 1908 ), he called on voters to prevent the sixth re-election of Porfirio Díaz, which he considered anti-democratic.

Madero spent the bulk of 1908 writing a book at the directions of the spirits, which now included the spirit of Benito Juárez himself.

This book, published in late 1908, was titled La sucesión presidencial en 1910 ( The Presidential Succession of 1910 ).

* " Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants ", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics ( 1908 ).

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

Scouting for Boys first appeared in England in January 1908 as six fortnightly installments, and was published in England later in 1908 in book form.

Although historically the river was not present on several official maps ( for example, according to David Leboff and Tim Demuth's book ; in 1907, 1908, and 1919 ), from 1921 it was absent for several years ( on pocket maps designed by MacDonald Gill ).

The book, published by Hal Leonard Books, included a CD with 16 different recordings of the song from various points in time, ranging from a 1908 recording by Fred Lambert, to a seventh-inning-stretch recording by Harry Caray.

George Shipway ( 1908 – 1982 ) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book The Chilian Club.

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Johannes Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy ( German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915 ), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

In 1908, Stephen Langdon summarized the rapid expansion in knowledge of Sumerian and Akkadian vocabulary in the pages of Babyloniaca, a journal edited by Charles Virolleaud, in an article ' Sumerian-Assyrian Vocabularies ', which reviewed a valuable new book on rare logograms by Bruno Meissner.

" from Orthodoxy ( book ) by G. K. Chesterton ( 1908 ).

Scouting in Texas unofficially dates to the publication of British lieutenant general Robert Baden-Powell's popular book, Scouting for Boys, in 1908.

After Eliza Elder Brightwen's death, Edmund Gosse arranged for the publication of her two posthumous works Last Hours with Nature ( 1908 ) and Eliza Brightwen, the Life and Thoughts of a Naturalist ( 1909 ), both edited by W. H. Chesson, and the latter book with an introduction and epilogue by Gosse.

In the book LaRocca claimed that he founded the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1908.

Josiah Royce in his 1908 book The Philosophy of Loyalty presented a different definition of the concept.

Babbitt's book Literature and the American College ( 1908 ) first gave it a definite form ; it was aimed at a perceived gap between the ideals of liberal arts colleges, and university education as it actually existed.

Admiral Tetsutaro Sato of the Imperial Japanese Navy mentioned the Korean admiral in his book published in 1908: