The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05
1e1n Qualifications.
JUVENILE BOOKS.

JUVENILE BOOKS.
The boys of the country need no introduce
ton to Mr.. Trowbridge. Lee & Shepard
publish the sixth in his Tide Mill stories, en-
titled "Peter Budstone, the Boy who was
Hazed." It will be found to be the equal of
all the series that have preceded it. The
books of this series are written in the au-
thor's best vein, aud are bright, witty, full of
wholesome adventure, aud are profusely
illustrated. The moral to be drawn from
"Peter Budstone" is obvious, although by
no means obtrusive-the terrible wrong and
danger of hazing. 1t is story of the New
England coast, and in it are illustrated the
fidelity and affection of boy of sixteen for
his older, but demented, brother.
Messrs. Lee & Shepard also issue with ad-
ditions covering his completed career, a new
edition of sour Standard Bearer; or the
Life of General Ulysses s. Grant: his Youth,
his Manhood, his Campaigns, and his Emil
nent Services in the Reconstruction of the
Nation his sword has redeemed; as seen and
related by Captain Bernard Galligasken,
Cosmopolitan, and written out by Oliver
Optic" The work is illustrated by the we'll
known artist, Thomas Mast. The boys and
girls of to-day not only wish to know about
the facts connected with the civil war, but
they desire to become acquainted with the
personal history and deeds of the great actors
who were the chief instruments in bringing
the war to triumphant close; and they. as
well as those of a larger growth, will find in
these pages a condensed and faithful history
of the war itself, in addition to being fur
nished with abundant personal illustrations
of the noble character and worth of the ex-
President.
General Douglas Frazer's Perseverance
Island" in new edition by Lee & Shepard,
Boston, is truly wonderful book, on the
publication of which all boys and lovers of
spirited, adventurous, wholesome reading
are to be congratulated in the heartiest man.
ner. For its subtitle the remarkable vol
ume is called the Robinson Crusoe of the
Nineteenth Century" 1t might have been
well to have called it the American Robinson
Orusoe, as the author describes the achieve
ments of Vermont Yankee on lonely Is
land in the Pacific, where he was shipwrecked
and yet attained wealth, comfort, and all
that is worth having, save human compan-
ionship. The best part of the story, which is
told with exquisite simplicity, consists in
teaching boy-and his father-how to over
come obstacles, how to make much of small
things, how to use ones head and hands, and
how to make nature subservient to human
wants and comforts.
Charles Woodward Hutson, author of the
beginnings of Civilization" recently pub
lished by Mr.. John B. Alden, of New York,
is new Southern writer whose work will
certainly attract wide attention. He was
born near Yemassee, South Carolina, his IA
Their, Col. VIM. Ferguson Hutson, having
been for many years member of the Legis-
lature. In 1860 he graduated at the College
of South Carolina, having taken in his Junior
and Senior years the gold medal for the best
essay. He enlisted in the Confederate army
at the outbreak of the civil war, and served
until its close but always declined promotion
from the ranks.
After the close of the war he passed several
years at the College in Columbia, as a resi-
dent graduate, reading and studying. He
contributed several able papers to the South
ern Quarterly Reuiew and to the Southern
Magazine, then edited by DR.. William Hand
Brown, now Librarian of the Johns Hopkins
University. In 1869 he was elected Professor
of Greek and German in the Louisiana State
University; and since the autumn of 1881 he
has filled the chair of Modern Languages
and of History in the University of Missis-
sippi.