, 1881-12-17
LITERATURE.|
The Story of the Life Of Rioh.
ard Cobden..' -, -: r..
A Fascinating Biography IF: tho :
Apostle Of Free Trade. :: !, :.
Briet Mention oi. 1wo.Soore ot !uyeniIe
md Holiday. Books. 49,: =: ?.

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Tf1E LIEF OF RICHARD CopDEy. -.
To oil who hold dear the principles OF freq
trade, tho name Ut K[cl,nrsl .Cobden will be
remembered with especial love md vcnera-
ton. Ills life VIVA devoted to the ,iliauguta-.
Hon, extension, and triumph Of laws which :
should put tho poor inau on an equality With ,
the rich one. From'th Ilumbleat origin lso
rose to point Of worldwide fame, when
Princes and mighty tnonarchs sought Ills ai- :
Vice and counsel. by his, fidelity to princi-
pies founded on natural equity lo sacrificed
lIard-earned fortune, Self-taught, man
of the peoplc, Ito became their most eloquent
champion and orator. Ills interchangeable en-
ergy knew no bounds. Like tile wclf-tralnetl
bloodhound lie followed Ills yiatlm, to the
death. and III hts twenty-four years' fight
agalnst the Corn laws OF Grcat britain. lie
never faltered for m insthnt, until by their
Parliamentary repeal protection received its
death blow md Ktctarti Golden llattwpn the !,
laurels Of glorious Victory. Americans OF tho
present generation hold his mama In especial
reverence rs one of the two great English
men WHO never swerved from. their. a1le--
glance, when once given, to the cause ,oK
the North during the Rebellion, and who,
despite the Nnpopialarity Of their course,
were ever our fast, hrm, true friends. sRfch-
ard Cobdcn Is fortunate in Ills biogrnpher.
for Nit. Atorlcy Inns written work clearly
entitled to the credit OF being dtgnii1ed as q ),
model biography. Nor was this an easy, !,
task to accomplish. On polttico-economto
questions meh's toes stlck out, very
fur, md thero was 10 :: uncertain.
ring about any act or utterance of,
Cobden's life. Yet so interesting has.
h1r. Morley made Ills story Tint protectiouist,
md free.trader wlll read 1t will, al,nost squal'
delight. Mr.. Morley's thought Is fertile, hiss
literary style unexcelled. aud his search for
facts, and for facts only. persistent md CON-
mendable. Personal biography and POLITICAL
record have been skllIfuily combined, anu
the reader Is given mt only an entertaining.
picture of Cobdcn's own lifc-a portrait Of q!
sensible, devoted, clear-headed businessman
md statcsman-buta also an admirable history
OF English politics between the years 18.5 :
and 1906. Mr.. Morley acknowledges his In:
debtedness 10 Mr.. Henry Richard, the mein-
ber from Alerthyf, who had already arranged =
mitch Of Cobden's correspondence, md also to-.
Mr.. Bright, but it Is from CdbAen's own
III ."ost ~ ,nhIar,ato-,n tr,a htor-.,,,,a.
a tt:.s sa.aao.o ..s.,, ~. -"
hnro TINT hn cn,i nntv nen wortla 'nr enlorv.
! or furuish the world q ,,aneKyrIc on tt,a ylr-
tues OF tho deceased. Lenrinx the HE of Cob
/ den to speak for ITSELF. iio, tafmoderate and
! spnring Of his comments, but never lenyes
m 3ntciljrcnt uninfnt, nE thaIr avn. Mnrlax's
II ia nj fffThnrd tHhtlen !; viii evar rank mn
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o'!e " lng WY @ oest Wu.as r.: VI ~ kann.
/ ,Noodens llle Was lor ne nloSt paft: spens
among the Industries Of Lancashire, but he
| wns born in at, old farmhouse, known ;a5
,"'Dunford,",: nt l1cysllott,: +, hamlet in
-sax.,, 4fslIc Srnat ~ 1,nnnfnct,,rrf '-Tni,1n
Ssn1 Tim fnrner niss 4. tn t.iis "a in hfs tr
pninphiet: :aWo wore bufm md brci ep anil
tHhn ~ a,rni rh3sn1a ~ I'm ,nf1t, ~ r,,rinnd
snd M nGnfeas a. n,ch i,cnnt ftr TX 1,.,r
sIifs nf oir fornfatf1nrs thas bM Tn t!in casting