Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-07
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.


ing Co., octave, 3s1 pages.) The name of
the author of this sumptuous looking vol
ume, which has such well-to-do air in its
nice binding, gilt top, extra large print,
well loaded, has become known to readers
of society items by reason of his society
leadership in New York and his notable
''Four Hundred" The book is somewhat
autobiographic, and the author has much
to say about great dinners and fine, costly
wines. Perhaps he should not be called a
gourmand, but an epicure. He evidently
coverts the distinction, such as it is, of
being a connoisseur in wines. The
themes of the twenty y-seven chapters are
such as DINNERS" .tCotillion Parties,"
Entertainments" sIife in Newport"
seBalls, I" etc. Some fifty or more pages at
the close are given to 'Fashions in Sta
tionery'-shoMing how visiting cards,
mourning cards and the like should be
printed The book will be of interest to
fashionable and society people who regard
Mr.. McAllister as leader. A nearly full
length engraving of the author faces the
title-page.
History of the United States of Amer
lea Under the Constitution" by James
Schouler, in four volumes. CNew York;
Dodd, Mead & Co., 6 vo. About 500 PIP.
each. Price s9.O0.) The first volume
contains five hundred and twenty-six
pages and covers the period from 1888 to
1901. The first chapter is Introductory.
In its first section the thirteen Confederate
states are described, in its second the con-
stitutional convention and in its third
more perfect union. The second chapter
covers the first administration of Wash
ington. The third chapter is given to the
second administration, and the fourth to
that of John Adams. The second volume
of this fine history has four hundred and
seventy-one pages, and covers the period
from 1901 to 1817 The five chapters
treat of the administrations of Thomas
jefferson and James Madison, and give
also graphic picture of our country in
1S09-the manufactures, commerce, itera-
ture, social life and manners, Fulton and
his steamboat, canal building, etc., and at
the close there is good index for the first
two volumes. Volume third has five hun
dred and thirty-five pages, covering the
period from 1917 to 1881. Its four chap
ters describe the administrations of James
Munroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew
jackson. Volume fourth has five hundred
and fifty-nine pages, and covers the period
| from 1881 to 1S47. Its six chapters speak
| of the second administration of Andrew
jackson, and those of Martin Van Buren
and James K Polk The third and fourth
| volumes each contain an index. This
/ brief enumeration of the chapters and
| their contents can scarcely give fair i'm
| preston of this valuable history without
/ the mention of the fact that the author
writer and law school professor, has been
at great pains to obtain materials, that he
seems to have the judicial qualities of a
| L. - Lao fasr nd
lucid statement of events, and graphic de-
scriptions of incidents. The volumes are
neatly bound, well printed and put up in
a box by the publishers. We have many
histories of the United States, but there
| was room for this new statement of events
and their causes and effects, SO that Pro
fessor Schouler's history will find a place
on the book-shelves of public and private
libraries and be welcome there. The COM
ing generations cannot know too much of
the early history of the land of the star
spangled banner.
"oh long may it wave
Ger the land of the free and the home Of the
| brave"
can Appeal to Pharaoh; the Negro Pro-
blem and its Radical Solution" New
York; Fords, Howard & Hubert; 12 no.,
205 pages.) This book, by an anonymous
author, touches upon live question, il
not upon a live issue. The negro OF
whom it treats is very much alive, and
has already had much to do with the life
of this nation, as those who are old
enough to remember fully the troublous
days of internecine strife can never for
get. The emancipation proclamation and
the enfranchisement of the black man has
not ended the career of the negro in Amer
lea. The writer of this volume indicates
his opinion that the negroes of the south
should be assisted and encouraged to i'm
migrate He believes that they will b,
vastly better off in land where there il
no social prejudice against their race. HI
speaks of the ''colored" people, meanin,
those whom we call "mulattoes," as prob
ably unlikely to choose immigration, bu
thinks that gradual and induced immigra
ton should be favored, and urges that i
\ the general government refuse to do thi
the states should separately adopt and ap
ply it within their own borders. Tn
book is well written, as even those VIII
may not agree with its premises or con
clusions will acknowledge. Judge Tour
gee was right in his ''appeal to Caesar" h
urge education for the negroes, for on
benefit as well as theirs. And this write
seems to think emigration to Africa vii
co1fluce to the advantage of the black rae
, and the safety of the white. We thin
there should be no coercion or expulsion
The attractive cover of this volume, wit
its pyramid and sphinx, may indicate t
the reader the land to which the write
, thinks the negroes in America should re
turn, or the uncertainty of speedy adoI
ton of his advice, even as the questionin
D Egyptologist asks of inscription and hiel
3 oglypkIc, "Who built the pyramidss" an
l ssWhat says the sphinx The negr
question will not down. Like Banquo
ghost it continues appearing. Time wi
f show the result of craftsmanship and al
y thorship, and education and Christianit,
in reference to the negro. If God brougf
him here to stay he will stay. If he is
s help evangelize Africa he will go thithe
+. But he will go of his own free will, or th
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