The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-18
LITERATURE.
New Books.

D. Four YEARS WITH GENERAL LEE. Being sum
RS mary of the more important events touching
q the career of Gen. Robert f. Lee in the war be
. tween the States. BY Walter II. Taylor, of his
staff. New York: d. Appleton d CO. Chicago
t. Jansen McClurg 4 Co. For sale by Osman &
!. Hapeman and E. Y. Grggs, Ottawa. Price S. CO.
Even Horace Greedy, who himself wrote a
history of the rebellion admitted that a relia
. blc impartial history of the war between the
t states could not be written within the present
r century. The honest seeker after the truth in
regard to that war has no recourse, then, but
to read the histories written on both sides.
One is constantly impressed with the truth of
this in reading the work before us. Here is n
man who stood in the close relation to the
head of the confederate army of chief of staff
7 and adjutant general, and who was therefore
perforce personally cognizant of the moving
causes and exact outcome of the leading OPP
eratons of that army; and he relates both with
a calmncss and eXactness Of detail that con-
vince the reader that his story is true. Yet
how different, in many important respects,
from the story as told by the newspapers at 1.-THE
time or in most of our popular histories There
is no attempt at fine writing or rhetorical EN-.
bellishment, but the writer taking his figures
from official records in his own keeping and
his facts being mostly such as transpired under
his own eyes, the book may fairly be accepted
as entirely reliable as far as it goes and to that
extent is a valuable contribution towards the
ultimate construction Of a true history of the |
great rebellion.
Tom. A Home Story. BY George L. CLANCY. |
Roberts Brothers, Boston; Jansen, McChrg IL |
Co.. Chicago; Osman Il Hapeman, Ottawa.
Price 1925
There are doubtless many reprehensible |
books issued in these days for the especial en-.
tertanment of young people, but the volume
before us, though designed more especially for
boys, is not one of them. If history is philoso-
ply teaching by example, a good example,
though in its leading elements fictitious is no
less legitimate for philosophic teaching. The
characters drawn in this volume-though of
such common people as Tom, Dick and Harry
are not only eminently worthy of emulation,
but are so drawn and excite emulation because
they fall in the way of natural, common, every
day honest and commendabe living It's ten
dency being thus cminently wholesome, it will
not be objected to the book that the story is
so skilfuly constructed as to be deep. q
ly interesting and to repay perusal as a story
only. "
The WOLF AT THE Door Roberts Brothers, Bos- |
ton; Jansen, McClurg IL Co., Chicago Osman |
~ llapeman, Ottawa. Iii
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