River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-02-24
A F0aI's Errand. and the Invisible
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/ From Maine to Texas the new mode O
| stlutation has come to be: "Have you read
that book p "What book y "Vhy, the
| one written by 'One of the Fools and dsdi-
| Gated to other members OF the family You
must get that lisa stunnerW
| Your best friend suggests it as the most en-
| ioyable thing he knows; the chance &C
| quaintance and the stranger refer to it al
| once as the uppermost topic. For weeks the
| news paper correspondent has dipped his
nimble pen INTO every rssible item OF gossip
| concerning the author and the lime OF his
| book. The great Daily Newspapers devote
| TWO, three, aud four columns to extracts from
| it aud to comments on the elements OF its
power and popularity. 1t has even aroused
| the most staid and suber OF the M0nthlles and
| Quarterly Reviews, and eticted their warm
est admiration. The International Revue "
says:
at is nothing less than an extraordinary
| work In matter, it il intensely interesting /;
| in manner, it is forcihe and vivid to rare
| degree. Engl sh literature contains no SINH
| lar picture. az, indeed, probably no material
| at once so picturesque and so terrible has
ever been off red by any society with which
| English writer's have dealt
President Hayes sat down to read this re-
| markable story OF recent events, and with
out waiting to complete it sent for dozen
COPIES to present to officials or personal
friends
Representative Southern men, including
Postmaster General Key and General Wright,
have taken hold OF it with unexpected zest,
pronouncing it the abIest and truest book
ever written on the South.
1t is only about once III a generation that a
book appears which is at once and univer-
sally accepted as a marked element in the
life and literature OF the world About thirty
wears ago Mrs Stoves "Unce Toms abIn"
aroused the world with indignation over the
wrongs of race, and inaugurated the novel
with purpose And now has appeared an
other book, ga FooL's ERRAND, BY ONE OF
THE Fools. which has seized upon the popu
lar imagination and run through edition alter
edition, as fast as il could be printed. 1t is
a tale OF life at the South since the late war,
ana is tul! of the racy hum0r OF the country
people, the rich and laughter provoking
characteristics of negro fun aud the pathos
of negro prayer meetings, the dashing ex.
element OF the hunt, the oddities of up
country mass meetings, the social lines Of
caste, the hat passions 0t politics, the dark
and bloody doinqc OF an enraged people, and
their strange logic Of self-justfcation. 1t
gives a new and startling view OF matters
that every American should understand, and
tor briliancY, power, romantic interest, and
suetaned hold upon the attention OF the rea-
der, it stands among the famous books OF tie
world
so Il eat has been the demand for it that
the publishers have thought il worth issuing
IL all enlarged 4dDu II uHIidtSu tiltioHy "iioH
is sold by subscription only and not to be
found at the book stores.
Tie enlargement is partly in the tale itself,
which the author has revised very carefully
and supplied with some new matter. more
fully completing It's artistic proportions, but
especially inthe addition OF Part H., entitled
tsrhe Invisible Empire, containing thirteen
intensely interesting chapters, which gave
a concise review OF recent events at the South
(showjng the elements on which the tale is
tlased, with mary thrilling personal nara
tives aud other startling facts and consldera-
tiuns including also an account Of the rise,
extett, purpose, methods, disguses, secret
oaths, and mysterious deeds OF the reduubt-
aole Ku-Klux Khan: all fully authenticated
from sworn documents never before grouped
for the general reader.
The Engravings have been designed by
competent artists from original models. In
beauty aud interest they are very attractive
in tideiity to facts they may be relied on For
instance, the striking figure Of The Masked
Sentinel, facing page 225, was drawn directly
from costume captured on XII Klux raider
ard now in the possession OF the publishers
The work is in every respect an "honest
book F" 1t gives 524 pages, in clear, legibIe
type, but compact and full, containing more
matter than many book selling at double
the price. 1t is handsomely printed, on
good paper, and bound III substantial and
handsome style, as BELTS book certain to
sell last and Tar, aud one that must stand a
good deal OF reading
The New York Tribune says Of it
''Tn point at vivid scene painting. subtle
intutions at character, ast c'lloquial r-cl-
ness and humnr. many Of the sketches in
this volume may we'll challenge comparison
with the most effet tive passages IN our hctl-
tiurs literature, not excepting the wonder
tut pictures OF actual life liz "Uncie Toms
Cabin"
md the Chicago Inter-0cean adds:
'fIf this book don't move men, and start
the patriotic blood Of the nation into warmer
flow, then we have mistaken the American
people ;"
saws tho New York Graphic:
stIt was a novel which first aroused us from
our lethargy to a consciousness OF the grow
ing magnitude OF the evils OF slavery, and 1t
isa novel now which calls attention III
clarion voice to the dangers which yet
threaten nation divided against itself II
'Uucie Toms Cafin, was an electric light,
revealing in one fl sh the cursed system OF
chattelisn, this more recent account OF "A
FonI's Errand is a slelga hammer
Il hehoaFfs both agents and the reading
public 10 remember that this book IL second
iiUnele Toms Cabin,' which every body
must and will read shrewd agents are Sc
curing territory now, and already its sales
are more thin 10, 900 copies per month
It is published by WEsTos HuLBERT,
Chicago.
NV. Ferris, Agent, Bay City. Wis.