National Republican., 1885-11-21
Nun miss rEn IN runNNY.
Far-East Opinion of Hon. S. S. Cox's
"Threo Decades OF Federal Lcgisia-

Far-East Opinion of Hon. S. S. Cox's
"Threo Decades of Federal Legisia-
tion."
From the Eastern Express, Constanlinople
Oct. 81 lsS5.
The American government has sent repre-.
sentntivrs to Turkey of almost every kind aud
character during the last few years. Ainonl
them have been oliticians byprOfession, poets
by preference, cN.coufcdcrate and cx.felerll
gtnernls retired from the business of man.
daughter, through acts OF Congress; and ut the
present moment agentleman who happily adds
TO three decades OF congressional experience
pen rs ready and versatile MS are his mind and
tongue; Ty,e. o.o .,,,. ,u,..,...
diate predecessors held gentle dalinuce with
umes of verse in which there was more OF
patriotism than OF poetic inspiration, his
Testament as the foundation of n semi.blbicai
romance in which the simple but sublime
story of the Saviour is parodied nnd .proianed,
although some "iar west Sunday schools may
have adopted II as u class book
But the present plenipotentiary OF the United
States has taken q wider range and boder
the world the history of that "lliad OF woes"
the American civil war, in which, us II stltis
man and leader of the northern Democr ICY. he
bore conspicuous and most honorable part
Mr.. Cox was war Democrat, and on the side
of the north in principle and IN action through
out the secession struggles and hence an ad-
versnry, though most generous aud fOrgivug
one, to the men and measures which secured
the undivided support of the whole southern
people, who with arms in their hands for
four years sustained ''the lost causc;' l2001,00
Of southerners, hampcred by the presence in
their midst Of 3,560,O00 OF slaves, arrayed
agains!!the So,oooooo. of the north:
Busy mnn rs Mr.. Cox must have been during
those cvcntlul twenty.four years of public life,
and noted rs he always has been rs one of the
hardest working members of Congress- he yet
has Travelled much abroad and has written as
he ran the records of his experiences In many
books Of travel. Among these are "rhe Buck.
eye. Abroad" winter Sunbeams," Arctic
Sunbcnms" "Orlent Sunbodms," "Why We
Laugh !" &c.
In these books the quick observation, the
humorous perception, and the sunny nature of
the writer stamp them with an individuality
rs peculiarly characteristic MS that of the we'll
known American humorists, Attemus Ward
and Mark Twain. OF course anything more
than mere notice of this last aud most eub-
crate work of Mr.. Cox, comprising as IL does
200 closely printed pages of reading matter in
large book form, would be simply impossible
Nor is II n work OF which short extracts would
give the slightest idea, covering as II does a
field so wide and connected so harmonlously
in all It's parts and sections
The typographical executive, illustrations,
and general get up of this really valuable
book are most credltablo to the American
publishers.
must be fully satisfied at seeing its Benjamin
aTraycd in garments like unto these
THE Three Decndes' will hnd its pcrma-
nent place, as most valuable book of refer
cncc, in the libraries OF all who take an inter.
est In the American republic, and in the
The author Is to be congratulated, and the
american people as we'll on the production
of such an impartial norrativo of the almost
forgotten story of secession and of the men
who illustrated 1t.