Telegram-herald., 1890-07-21

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= good 1sl u attention.. Ilas hrst :
Ben BGrisr's 's1Ie.aolrs." TINS he ef
tns hsEo q New Og.esas VII b zsoTs e1'
ci1ng tAan fcEioa. for il vii be ne
tEaEh as B1sier ssss II. Ben Batler hs.s
pozE.ys idsas On al sRegeets- Ths book
w&s begun nearly yesax ago, bnt onis
aftsE uTgsnE solicitations b the paollsA-
era As 6rst Er. Batter refused 70 rs,
ten 70 ; proposition 20 write tbs story of
his Lfe
Il am getting cid. he s&lc. and have
fought al the battles care 70 fight II !
should write what knew you would bszr
a howl from one end of The Union % the
other. For I shall tsn the truth, 10
matter who il hits, ard when tAs book Is
published, il il ever is Published, there
viii Be more far flying IN the air than
any one man has ever seen before"
After much solicitation Mr.. Butle, de-
ciaed 10 take up his pen. and the result
: a volume coached in strong, vigorous
English on the episodes OF the war, the
making and unnaking Of presidents and
some fgcss about men whose condolences
be enjoyed.
Another hook that is sp. to attract
quite rs much attention is the little vol
uIne that the widow OF Gen. Grant IS
preparing.
II make no pretense to literary fin
ish," she said the other day, "and am
writing the simple narrative of my life
more for my children than for anybody
else. From the day when Gen. Grant
went a-wooing until the last scene of all
at Mount McGregor there was so much
crowded into our lives that our children
never heard of that | am going - tell
the story from the beginning in my own
way, so that whsn | am gone, as ] soon
shall so, they will know things more
clearly than they do now. Perhaps this
little volume VIII not inter est the pub
lie. hardly suppose it viii, but it viii
interest my children. Gen. Grants life
was such busy one and his privacy so
constantly broken into on account Of
public duties that there are dozen
chapters in his career and mine that
have never been written. / shall at
tempt to supply all these deficiencies, for
have al the letters he sent me from the
beginning 10 the end, scores of stories
that have never been rrinted, barrel
fal of letters on all sorts Of topics from
all sorts Of people, and these shall put
together in narrative form, 50 that my
children may read them aud know their
father and mother better than they do
now. do not mean OF course TO pub
Hsh Unfortunately all the letters he
sent me when we were lovers and all
the letters that came to him while he
was a general in the army and president
OF the United States. A number Of these
arc sacred. What l do not print shall
destroy.
81 am doing all the writing with my
own hand; l cannot dictate a sentence.
Occasionally my son Ulysses comes to
my aid, and then get along faster.
Since it was first said that was writing
this book have received a score of offers
from publishers for other work, but
have had TO refuse them all. It was
physically impossible for me to write
more than few pages day, no matte.
how hard I worked"
The third book that is going to attract
attention is DR.. I. De Witt Talmage':
life Of Christ 1t is called From Man
ger to Throne" and in few weeks viii
see the light Of day. It is q big volume
written in Talmage's best style. 1t i.
filed with pictures Of scenes in the
Holy Land, where the doctor spant -four
months last winter, and it is likely Il
I upset tradition in more ways than one
I 1t is one Of the surprising things about
Talmage that he manages to do so much
literary work. The making Of q new
volume is no trouble to him. He haG
the copy Of this latest book in the print
er's hands few weeks after his arriva
from the Holy Land. Most of it ht
wrote with his own hand. Occasion
ally he used a stenographer for die
tation, but not often.
Still another book that is going to b.
talked about is Ward McAlhster's vol
ume on New York society. 1t viii tel
Of ''the 400" who compose it, the usage.
Of good society and lot OF other facti
about entertaining, calling, visiting
dinner giving and matters Of like i'm
portance TO those of a social disposition
and blessed with large bank accounts.
FOSTER COATES