The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-05-30

self II Ia Mariana in the Moated Grange, and she
is 'awesry, aweary' through long, dreary years.
Al last there Ia news of the recreant lover but what
news should II beG Charles had been slave. dealer,
perhaps a pirate, in those distant seas; lie has
| numbered hImser Of his penchom for his cousin.
Andsc, after all, that intcrminabe period OF mystery
and suspense sentence ls delivercd against Eueenc,
lions OF francs, surrounded by q swarm OF syco-
plants, sought in marriage by al manner OF adven-
| wlhou! the love episode her life would have been
lull painfnl, cooreas, reptessed with that addl-
has ss sSsn Sne od into Sfs sGn
together money. on Mis- deainbed he said to her;
me over there What kind Of an account wouid
she render when she passed 'over there7 The
i msr e
| thing she yearned for She did not know II, hui
nothing really could have given her that, for II had
| TO surround her with constant evidences of the
sclhshness and greed Of her fellowcreatures; TO
her how utterly unworthy they were OF the bcnevo.
lence she showered upon them. she was simple
woman, and she sought consolation IN dspenslnga
munncent bounty. All this could do was 10 give
her some assurance that the revenues Of her father
were not being wasterully hoarded. Her iife is
Saoa s sny iurSsr GSss'ps Fate Se SGnd be
hN S,InTS, and n, nothing more Sona be said
whole. The reader is made 70 feel, not that he L
perusinR ctIon hut biography that all this actti-
!. chapter out oi lie p 50, nndoScedls. i Is.
When ,Engsn!c Htandct' drsl appeared some of the
crss ,o" q faa rs wts me nsa,de u ,s o. me wealth
ever,nas sown that he knew what he was writing
about, for he elites specific instances Of equally rich
MACHINERY Il o Nc Simplest. The Tnere s is no plot 10
% mS me me
first page to the last and u y 40 beca,se the genius
OF Balzac shines forth from II STEADILY" uRcceivcd
"Tns Great Conspiracy" by Senator John A.
Logan, New YORK: A. X. Hart h Cod has one
great merit In work OF hlstory-it IL frank and
| outspoken. II leaves no doubt where the writer
stands. The most insidlous evi OF historical books
lies In that style where the writer pretends to perfect
impartaltv and dsIhterestedncss while artfully
Putting his own colorlng upon every fact and
Judgment. The notion that the only valuable his.
tory s that without bias ought to have been exploded
long ago. Macaulay writes an account Of the Eng
llsh revoutlon In which the wings arc consistently
glorlfed and the Siuartes are always In the wrong
Hume narratcs the same events as II he held brief
for King Charles, and the wings and their leaders
get no mercy from him. Yet both hold an acknowl.
edged rank as historians, and the works Of both
diligently perused and recommended as authorities
In astronomy there Is an allowance In nil observa-
the observer looks, hut also fur what is called the
"personnl equatlun,' OF his consistent tendency to
things to the right or the left OF their absolute
position, which Is corrected by comparing with other
observefs, whose tendency may be exactly the re-
olset to that OF the esteemed Alexander Stephens,
on the other side, who could see nothing In the
the statcs which II certainly was not except in the
same geogrsphicall sense sc that i might be- called
Eosa osf Sa sn& e
nlnation OF IA Great Conspiracy" to break up the
Republic or convert II into An oligarchy dominated
is stl continuing under the guise Of the solid South
"A politics; and he thus essays to draw lesson from
iS1 % r@e ~ VIII pc
province as an author, since history s 'phllOsophy
teaching by examples" Speaking In detail, Gen.
which Is now very much ignored IN ,Sls s. era OF re
Cancellation and good WILL but which will he indls-
caNses 81 the struggled OF is6-65 the narangues Of
| wigfall and !oombs, the bitter and vehement re-
port Of Joseph Holt on the socalled "Knghts OF the
Golden Circle and the like, are not pleasant read
ing, but they are part OF the records OF stormy
time. and necessary to Its comprehension To sum
up "The Great Conspiracy" despite many faults Of
style, will be read with enthusiasm by those who
sympathixe with the authors views on public ques-
tlons, and with Interest or at least with curiosity by
| those who wish to see what he writes concerning
events In many OF which he bore q cOnspcOus part
and In reference TO which he now champions the
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