The National tribune., 1885-07-23
RECENT LITERATURE.

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Edmund c. Wendt associated with Drs. John G.
Peters, Ely Mcclellan, Jc;,n b. Hamilton and
George b. Sternberg. Published by VIM. Wood
& Co., New York.
knows most about the conditions influencing
the spread of the choleraic coutagion is John
b. Hamilton, III. d., Supervising Surgeon Gen
eral of the Marine Hospital Service of the
United States. Besides being one of the fore
| most physicians i'll the country, he has, since
the first of the cholera scarce, had entire charge
of the preventive measures which the Govern
ment took to protect the country against the
cOntagion. Indeed, he devised those measures
as well as carried them out and the immunity
of the country thus far from a visit of the
Asatic scourge is a testimonial to the excel
lence of his plans and the thoroughness of their
administration.
This makes his writings on the subject of
especial value and interest just now. To a
work on Asiatc Cholera" which has just ap-
peared from the press of VIM. Wood g. Co., New
York, publishers of standard scientific works.
he has contributed section on 1.-THE Proven
ton of the Spread of Cholera" He has his mat
ter arranged under the following heads:
Responsibility of Nations.
International Notification.
The Theory of Quarantine
The Practice Of Quarantine.
Municipal Measures and Personal Prophy.
laxis.
The volume is edited by the well-known Ed
mund Charles Wendt, NJ. d., and contains be-
side DR.. Hamiltons article a Comprehensive
History of Asiatic Cholera, by John G.. Peters,
M. D.; The Etiology of Cholera by Edmund
c. Wendt, M. d.; The Symptomatology, Course
Duration, Mortality, Complications and Sc
quela of Cholera, by the same author; The
Destruction of Cholera Germs, by Geo. NJ
Sternberg, NJ D.; Cholera Hygiene as Applied
to Military Life, by Ely Mcclellan, NJ. D., and
tnfr bola L.
NJ. ID.
The book is well illustrated with maps and
engravings
LIFE AND LETTERS OF GEN. UPTON. BY
Prof. Peter s. Niche. u. s. Military Academy.
With an Introduction by Gen James Fl. Wilson
Published by ID. Appleton l. Co., New York.
| One of the subordinate figures in our war;
whose fame will grow the more is known of
him. is Maj.-Gen Emory Upton. Gen. Upton
was one of those intensely earnest, sincere men,
| like Gen Nathaniel Lyon, who threw them
| selves heart and soul into the war, and counted
as naught peril of life and limb, hardship or
toll, so long as they were doing something to
| advance the great cause. In the admirably
written Introduction, Gen. Wilson says of him:
He was proud and honorable, and feared no
man; his love of God was open and avowed; his
love of liberty for all Gods creatures amounted
passion and, while his love for his chosen pro-
| fession was deep seated and abiding il found its
justification to himself ip the opportunity it would
give MN, curing the trialS which had come
the Naiion to render good service to the of
humanity and to that of his country unity But,
aside from patriotism the ORC hand and religion
on the other, he WAS genuine military enthusiast,
whose thoughts night and day'turned to the art of
| war. No knight of old was ever more absor bed in
dreams OF military glory nor more grimly deter
mined to win 1t, as opportunity offered He was
tremendously in earnest, and Whatever his hand
found to do that he did with all his might Had
Upton lived during the period of any of the great
European wars, he might still have been IA devout,
God-fearing Christian, but he certainly would have
been soldier and with fsyoriiIg circumstances he
would have been great Captain. His ambition,
subordinated and controlled it by a charac-
ter OF extraordinary purity and strength was linn
tied only by his sense of dutytas soldier and as
a patriot.
This book is an admirable type of what
| military biography should be. While the au-
thor admires his hero, he is, not blind to his
defects, and the praise is never so warm as to
reach fulsOme adulation. As far as possible he
has let the subject of the memoir write his own
biography, by the production of letters written
to his family in which he reveals his character
and thoughts with engaging frankness. The
historian only steps i'll when there are gaps be-
tween the letters to be supplied, and when
they fail to sufficiently tell the story.
THEO. Sprghty Love Story. BY Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett Published by r. b. Peterson
& Bros, Philadelphia. Price, so cents.
The authoress of "That Lass O. Lowries,"
and Kathleen" hardly needs any praise to
American readers. She is our greatest novelist,
and everything coming from her pen is well
coined by an immense circle of readers. "TheO"
is strong, pure creation. She dares every
thing for.the man she loves, with a sclf-sacri-
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