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must have endured before the wonderful
plot Of his story was conceived. The book
is highl, sensational aud truly original. I.
has no conceivable value unless by depicting
the unreal dangers Of Wall street Il may
frighten some giddy lamb from daring the
real dangers The writer should do better
work: be wields facile pen and has tie
merit Of originality
THREE VISITS TO AMERICA" By Emily
FaitnfuI-Pnblisbsd BY Fowler & Wells Co..
New York.
Previous to making her visits to this coun-
try Miss Faithful had spent twenty years en-
deavOring 10 improve the condition Of Eng
lish women. Ste bad established a ssfuud
for destitute gentlewomen, I" and as a pat OF
her plan she started the ''Yictoria Press" a
publication Office, which furnished Occupa-
ton 70 many unmarried women and girls.
Her visits 70 America we're undertaken with
an earnest purpose to study our society, our
industrial methods. and 10 see what
a country described by one
Of her own poets as ''she that lifts up the
standard Of the poor'' had been able to do
for her needy women. She found them as
in England half educated aud hall paid,
taxed without representation, aud treated
with insolence and contempt when brought
into direct competition with men.
As Miss Faithful was widely known she
people OF America, and in her travels across
the continent she met with many notable in
cldents which she relates in such delightful
manner. so overfoEing with good nature
that the reader Is eapuvated from the first.
She writes about people whose names are
household words, such as Charles Sumner,
Julia Ward Howe, Charlotte Cushman aud
many Others. In illustrating the ''self. de
nial with which most men treat women Who
work for a living' she cites a story told Of a
school committee in Massachusetts, who in
their printed report, in allusion to certain
appointment, observed, ''as this place offers
neither honor nor profit, we do not see why
II should not be filed by a woman" Men
are horror stricken at the thought Of the fear
ful consequences that viii follow II
gentle, delicate women should have
the right Of suffrage, while they
know that some Of the hardest and worst
paid work in this weary world falls to their
lot. 'sThe eminent utility OF what Miss
Faithful says. makes the book valuable and
therefore desirable: while 1t will entertain
everyone who takes It up, 1t win be sure to
instruct those who are thoughtful"
THE FIELD OF HONOR: a Comprehensive His
tory OF Dnelling in all Countries including the
Judicial Combat Of Europe. the Private Duel
Of the Civilized World. aud SDecidc De-
scFiptions OF all noted hostile meetings in Eu-
rope aud America, by Major Ben. c. Truman.
Author Of The South After the War."-Pub-
hsbed by Fords, Howard & Hubert, New
York. For sale by St. Paul Book and Station
tionery Company.
This is almost the only book extant which
treats on the subject of duelling. There is a
volume On French duels, and Lorenzo Sa-
bine wrote book entitled "Notes on Duels
and Duelling," which is no longer in the
market, so that Major Truman's book may
be justly called the only broad and compre-
hensive work upon this subject. The author
has been iudefatigable in his efforts to
collect all the material possible from widely
scattered sources, and as the result he pre-
sents In this volume "every recorded hostile
meeting, which can be classed AS a duel, with
names Of the principals and very generally
Of seconds, and frequently Of causes OF cir
eumstances; while each of the especially no.
table combsts receives full description -
Major Truman sets forth each incident with
allthe vigor and vivacity of an accustomed
story-teller, and he also furnishes a COM
plete book Of reference which
will be invaluable in every library.
The four noted American duels, Burr-Ham-
ilton, Decatur-Barron, Graves-Cilley, Terry
Broderick, the rdeontesP describes with great
accuracy and at the same time shows, as in
the Burr-Hamilton duel, that the judgment
Of their contemporaries was erroneous. "Burr
killed his opponent, but made him God,
with fifty millions Of people to-day as wor-
shippers, and ingloriously shot himself into
a loaths0me grave" Hamilton provoked the
duel He publicly denounced Burr as un-
patriotic, unsafe and unprincipled, and never
lost an opportunity Of privately besmirching
his character, while they were alike in their
ambitions and their vices" The author
closes his book with two chapters Of anec-
dotes on 'Humors and Pleasantries OF the
Field" which nghtens the gloomy record OF
murder and suicide.