The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-17

women, Dy John Williams; zen Times
One" short story by L. d. Gurton Re-
ports OF Clubs and Charitable Organizations
and an interesting serial, "a Mans Man
for A. That" by George Truman Kercheval.
HUpcrs Young People March 10, comes
with its usual attractiveness and interest.
Richard Malcolm Johnston's "Dlack Spirits
and White" with an illustration, is an
amusing short sketch in negro dialect. We
predict skating Juror among boys who
read OF Joseph Donoghue "thc champion
long distance skater Of the world who
raced with n famous Russian Alex. Van
Panschin, at Amsterdam, Holland, where
matches to decide the worlds championship
were arranged aud in the second contest Of
two-mile race came out victor, the time
being @ minutes "A seconds, beating the
worlds record by nineteen seconds He
also won in the race with Van Blatten, the
Austrian champion, and later on vanquished
the German Harms at Hamburg in a five
mile course, which the American covered in
lO45. His forte is speed, not figure skating
In Clever Cripple" David Ker embodies a
charming, pathetic episode in the boyhood
of Walter Scott, OF his first meeting with
Scotlands greatest poet, Robert Burns. who
on that occasion so truly prophecied for the
crippled lad, This boy will be heard of
yet" Agnes Carr Sage tells an interesting
true story of little Kullian Singh, young
Brahmin, showing how differently Hindoo
and Christian boys are reared. Caught in
the Ice" thrilling sketch by II. Ricard,
and ''lIow Can get the Best of the Doc
toR' by Walton l.. Savage, NJ. d., form the
remaining two most interesting contribu-
tons. This number Is prettily illustrated.
From the Metropolitan Publishing Com
pany we have received "Plutocrcy or
American White Slavery" politico-social
novel, by Thomas w. Norwood, ex-United
States Senator, now Representative from
Georgia, in which the writer deals vigorously,
truthiuly and boldly with the social follies
and vices he beholds growing at rapid and
dangerous speed in our Republic" The
characters are drawn from life, the satire
keen and cutting, the contrasts strikingly
clear. Nothing could be more vivid In its
realism than the chapter on "Black Friday"
that long-to-be day Of woe and
disaster the oath Of September, 1860, when
| financial cyclone swept over the city Of
New York, booming so many human lives To
despair and ruin. The conversations between
Galusha Smiling, Wall street broker and
''many times a millionaire and Mary, his
only child, n studious and thoughtful girl,
who Is interested most in ''the social prob
lem" which appeals through the great
wrongs and su1erings Of extreme poverty TO
the sympathetic side Of her nature, are
merely lessons In political economy, clearly
and strongly presented, in which moneyed
power represented by the father fails
to answer tho powders Of questions
put by his daughter, which must be
answered some day, aud which concern
every man, woman and child and every
infant In this land" In "Mr. Rocker" the
millionaire tramp. who lis courtcd by so
ciety; Is honorcd with high station; Is n
pillar Of the church," Is painted TO periec-
ton. In fact there Is no sha lc. or phase OF
this evil that the author docs not reach for
and show up In all its glaring monstrosity.
lie contrasts slavery In the South with
white slavery In the North, and pronounce'
the latter rs the worst 1T subjugatcs mind
and soul. Il destroys manhood" Mr.. Nor
wood produces the astounding facts aud zig.
uie, on this question which cannot be gain
said, and says: "rhc tax laid by about 10,
600 manufacturers on the peoplc Of this
country during the last twenty-five years
SURPRISES any robbery In all history" lie
Is not afraid 10 show up the shams and
rottonncss Of fashionable society, or TO turn
the full power Of his mental lens on tho
methods and ways Of the moncy-grabbcr 90
get "morc," aud In the punrcnt caustic EAR
casm with which he depicts certain social
scenes aud occasions wherein vulgarity,
shoddyism, scandal and gossip predominant,
"PlutOcmcyn succeeds In being very clever
satire. The romantic incidents ARE we'll
woven, and the scene Of the duel strikingly
intense. The political caieohism a. a coda
nj the end Of the book Is unique feature, In
every answer Of which Is a world OF biting
truth.
The admirers Of that charming story. ~
Able Constantin." by Ludovio Halovy, will
be ready to welcome another, though short
sketch, by the same author called "a Love
MutInt ~ hMttA ~ lil' AlAlN NNNiu lNlllNf
aud perhaps as marriages go nowadays
moved by mcrocnary motives, as original as
II Is sweet II Is In tho form Of diary
which each one Of the nowly-wcddcd pal
has kept, aud the reader Is allowed 10 hear
II a. side by side they read alternately the
story Of their love contained IN these en-
tries. II Is genuine idyl. In the same
volume Is a clever story. king Apcpi" by
Victor ChcrbulieS, which bean all the ar
tistic ingenuity Of this writer's touch. which
has placed him In the front rank Of French
novelistN The Marquis de Mimyal Il
IAN old dlplomaiist" indeed aud shows this
talent In nothing better than In the scheme
he secretly forms 10 cure his nephew.
Count Horace dc Pcnncyillc, Of his
iniaiuation for the beautiful blonde
widow, Madame Cornclul. an In.
triguantc Of the most accomplished
type. who has succeeded IN throwing
dust In the eyes Of the young man she l.
determined 10 marry. Count Horace Is a
scholar interested In Egyptian lore and
In the history Of the shepherd King
ApcpI." he believes he has almost proven
the identity Of that Monarch with the
Pharaoh Of scripture. Ills amour proprc
Is finally wounded, however. by the
woman he loves for having dozcd during
the reading OF his paper aud. discnehanted.