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himself wholly from tl.e time he was T.
yGnrs of agc, tie n,other's sacrifice Tns great;
sotr'bt ss s ssnss!y sasts d s ;s tnnx 'nt ' 2 Ma
s;f!'F s at 's'' a I'D ia at III 1'ar' %ai of aas s
nn1y, 50. She spufrGd t'v boy Oh. S!!n told
hike i gssai. 1hs fns sinrt @ II | tc i,"IISs "ISs
was strung within !icr. And a'sg conquered.
Janes nt first studied only in Il hnIf-llcnrtMl
WY. lls i',l not quite abandon Thu isca Of y
tho thirst fur learning sefzed him.. Ilo conlti
,1ot drink enough Ut ttlesnrtnEs0f rl'rlueMcc,
klowtGtlgc, n'Ml Wisdom. 1tn resolved to gn
u co,'sEe. l,y doM'g jnnitor's dulles ct
n t!le morning n,Mi evening aid MI tltc tiino
IT. tito summer yMcntluf,, r lnitl Ills gxpeltses
Will. l'c prepared fur ctIegr, I[e went to
simis;,ta, Wii,iaims; ta,ngt ,is.rct sel!o%ls IN tle
honest penny. could be turiled, borrowed 4
lille from Il friend 10 Ohio, al,d graduated
Will ltigll lsolnrs III 1854,
Tln story of ,Ocn. t;arIcll's !lfo rs Pro-
= Union solttler fighting f0r his country has
ri tI!ink i tl,eeessary . repent i i,en:. s. s.
viii, tl!e record Of hls long md honorable
current history. Tho curly yGayY, which
l,aye been lcast written nbnlit, ire. frollI 0,lH
nnlnt 9f view. tho greater nlps. It was in
IT. period M whGn tlie i!l,snlldlng wns going On
Wien l'ls vices might l,ttyo been obscure,
when his vlrtie invoke only tho applause Ut
us nwn conscience, w1!en itfc1Icss appeared
~ its ,nost St,iuctiye form, antl Use might
stnnell md true, strong, rcsolutc, alia cour-
we 90 not, to speak frankly, like tho latter
part 9t Mr. GHtmors's book. The work !,as
been llaslily dollc, md not well done. Tile
nhlnl,.s of the ca,npnfgn-bograplly sticks
nut tllrnuEh 1t too ptalnIy. THO must effect
iye canWign biography llecd not be one
Wltieii declares its PURPOSE ~ every chapter;
tdent, atltt Ills future services, or which IT.
tafls opinions for tlls caiMpagM uilly. 4 bet
ier way - tllc calm, 1!lie[1l!s narrative. md
itie c@9rcftll @ tilo'ig, MT unfrien4!y summing
cellent history of Gnrtcltl's curly life supple
mented by 4 survey Of his military nitt Con-
Eress1onnl career from n,orn competent or
',loro careful hand: A good compendium uf
sincGllrs, useful tor campaign purposes, Is
('The Life Of james 4. Garfield" Dy Ed
mlnd lSirkc. Franklin Squire Library. New
York: Harper t& Bros. Price 20 cefits.)
vAL1TALI,A.
It Is a curious fnct, ns tho author of this
poem remarks In tic preface. "tl,ut n1nong
US, Engllsl.-spcalsing people, scholarly In
yesttgati0M Inns clung rather to the classic
lore anu mythology Of Greece and 1,one thnn
to the less classfc, bllr for purcr and truer,
religion of tho North" But 1t Is still moro
curious that persons who hnyp undertaken
to cXpOund Morse literature should know So
little Wlnt they arc writing of. Tho present
author, for instance, Insists upon resenl-
blances between tho Scandinavian and tho
Christian schemes that to most other minds
must seem purely farciful. "Can VIC not"
she inquiries, "Seo Baldur, SEQ an image,
faint perhaps, Of that pure Ono OH whom,
too, Innocence brooded like n dovc,-tho
Christ slain by that Iscatiot who purposel
not Ills death, but bascly sold hin, for tho
reward Of bctrayalP" Frankly speaking,
No; we cannot. 11er testimony rs to "the
answering temperance and morality of the
Nortll1nen is also contrndictcd by witnesses
far moro competent than she. Valhalla It,
self Inns not been. II, song or story, tho abode
OF the purcst pleasures; and, though th!s
pof of ner t e fatgs s1gca m ySrd yfn sa s # es"a s
jcct., Tho error Of those who have. written
most oil Scandinavian mythology for con-
mon @ reading Is. as Il seems to ~, two-folt.
First. they llnyc been too didaGtle; aM,
not 50 that The lnal,l facts Of tho mythology
0f tho Grecks and Romans were Undo pnrts
or tile common knowledge. Tho treatment
IN one case, US ~ the other, should In broad,
Th9 conscientious genoaloeies Of the present
writer are, mt out Of pace III n poem Intended
to he "1tstrlctlye:" Dut It would be moro
,ticios e take thS l grent names 'I char
and give them dramatic form and substance.
Certainly this method would produce rs good
results, though IL might not 1e so ensy til
execution rs the more particular planAd0pted
Tho present mem Is of 1,neyc,, merit. Tho