The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-02-16
Literary.

white and gold, printed on heavy pa
per and with heavily gilded edges, is
a fit setting for the choice story it
contains. 1t is a story of one Chris
tian woman's life sketched with strong
hand in five beautiful word pictures
as girl, maiden, wife, mother and
grandmother. Her festivals, except
the last, were Christmas times. The
last was Easter. The story is work
of art. 1t paints in true living colors,
and tells the long story of lifetime
in five brief chapters.
"CA IRA! OR DANroN IN THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION" A study. By Lau-
renee Gronlund, A. NJ, author of
"The Cooperative Common
wealth" Boston: Lee & Shepard,
New York: Charles T. Dillingham;.
Price, $3.50.
This is curlously interesting and
novel book, the French revolution
being viewed from a Socialistic stand
point. The words "Ca Ira" are said
to be of American origin. Benjamin
Franklin, while ambassador to the
Court of France during the American
revolution, was constantly questioned
about the war with England. His
usual answer was, "Ah, ca irar" (Oh,
it goes! This gave rise to the first
revolutionary song, jubulantly chant
ed by all patriots on the anniversary
of the taking of the Bastile, and COM
mencing:
| "Ah, ca ira! ca ira! ca irar'
In explaining the teachings of the
volume the author gives the motive
of the work in few paragraphs. He
says:
"All thoughtful people look for
ward to great changes in the near
future, and many think that some
catastrophe like that of the French
revolution is impending in all civiliz-
ed countries. I feel confident that
the young, who stand on the threshold
of these events, can forestall the
threatened catastrophe by assisting
in the birth of new social order
1t is, therefore, you, young men and
women, whom I especially hope to
influence in these pages; whom I
desire, not by cleverness, nor by
brilliancy, but by intense earnestness,
to inspire with a new sense of duty,
with the conviction of call to inter
fere actively lii the moulding of
events. Such is the intent of this
volume.
"This work, perhaps, will be found,
also, to be novel in this, that it pre-
sents to you the great French revolu-
ton from point of view from which
it never before has been surveyed in
point; not so much that it may serve
as an example or warning Though
that also), but that it may be seen to
have been preparation for the work
which should be performed by you.
CAL historians, in the English Ian
guage at least, have presented the
revolution as a panorama OF kaleido-
scopic picture, and thereby made it
simply a perplexing and puzzling
subject. Such pictures are altogether
Improbable to us in our generation,
since they necessarily leave the crisis
an incomprehensible, an unexplained
phenomenon. Even in that form it
may confidently be said that-no por-
ton of history has had such fasci-
nation for all classes of readers as the
short period of French annals from
1889 to 1894 but how much greater
would the interest be, especially
when it's centennial comes, round and
the centennial of that wonderful year
1893, if we could once understand it"
tits a wonderfully suggestive book,
crowded with valuable historic facts,
and all presented by the most pleas
ing methods.
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