The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-29
LITERATURE.

SPEECHES., LECTURES AND I.ETTERs-By
Wendell Phillips Boston Lee Il Shepard.
Crown, Svo, cloth, 81 50) Some time since
there was published a volume containing
the speeches of this celebrated reformer.
bat the public was not satisfied, and made
a demand for additional speeches and adj
dresses 1t Is III answer to a popular de-
mand that this volume has been published.
1t contains thlrty-three speeches and lee
lures that were not included in the first
issue, and for that reason it is more yalu-
able work. 1t illustrates the wide range of
times and topics covered by Mr.. Phillips
interest and eloQuence. 1t begins with the
earliest OF his speeches and closes with his
last public utterance, his tribute to the
memory of Harriet Martneau, and between
the first and last subject treated there ia an
interval of fOTty-slX years. In Mr. Phillips
the student OF oratory will find a good and
safe model, for in his addresses will be
found iucisive speech, abundance and felic-
ity of Illustration, skill in applying truth
to present needs, and, above all, the union
OF tine highest gift OF elOquence with light
ness OF touch, conversational reality Of
tone and language level TO the understand
ing Of every one. The mastery of inyectve
which is to be discovered in these addresses,
keen and graceful as Damascus blade, it
has well been said lends new meaning to
the term "Philippic." The frontispece of
this volume is magnificent likeness Of Mr.,
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the late John G. Phillips by Frederic p.
Vlnton. This work is offered by Samuel
Carson & Co.
WHITE SLAVES, OR THE OPPRESSION OF
THE WORTHY PooR-By Rev. Dr.. Albert
Louis Banks. DID. Boston: Lee d
Shepard. Cloth, 327 PIP, 81 5o.l In this
Of personal observation and study among
the poor OF great city, not the poor whose
misery IS the result of indolence or Of
vicious habits bur those who are willing TO work
ana do work: but who are unable 10 advance In
the world. Those the reverend gentleman in
vestigated are known as the worthy poor. AS
Harriet Beecher Stowe presented the condition
OF the lowly among The color, people OF the
slave States In her admirable book, Uncle
Toms Cabin" so does MIR; Banks present the
condition among the worthy, l0wly whites in
'Whlte Slaves" IL is the result OF his observa-
tons duling his paStorae in tie city OF Boston,
when he was called upon 10 chrlst"n the children
OF ms class OF people, TO pray for their sick or
to bury their dead. Their condition, as II pre-
scented itself TO his eyes, aroused his sympathy
and lie went deep into the subject, aud WHEN lie
had thoroughly Informed himself in the matter
lie told of what lie saw ana what lie knew from
the pulpit OF ST. Johns Methodist Episcopal
Church, South Boston, and now offers these dis
courses In book form. In this volume he de-
sc ibes 10 most graphic manner the impover-
ished ana unhealthy surroundings OF many Of
these poor people, and tells OF The inadequate
compensation they receive aud upon when they
are forced To bring up families. He dwels at
length on the habitations that by reason OF their
poverty these people are forced to occupy OF the
tenemenInouse In which there never enters a
ray OF sunlight and on which the sun shines only
on the roof, Que of The places visited by Mr.
Banks Is thus described by him:
We are in q cellar about ten feet square which is
separat d from others ike 1t by partition. AS
soon as our eyes get accustomed to the darkness-
FOR the only light is from foot OF so width of
glass, reaching from the ground up the floor that
forms the ceiling OF the room where stand
we see that this IS the den OF old man and his
wife. They have both passed three-score and are
no longer able to work hard They have had
children, but they are dead. For this den
oil misery, that well = to- do Western farmer
would not think of keeping his hogs In, they
cent, on nearly 5000. They have to cook eat
sleep and do everything else pertaining domestic
ne, In this one dark. filthy hole Nobody could
Keep u clean. There Is sunshine, and only a
little while in the day any light at ALL II is neces-
sarily damp and moldy. We talk with the old man,
he goes hshing, and does such odd jobs he is able
to do lie says OF the worst things they have to
contend with Is the rats, and then he points out
us places in the wall, down the ground that
he has filled with little billets of wood stuck In
every Will way, in his efforts to keep the rats
from preylng on them at night.
Mr. Banks not only presents The pjcture by
w0Id-painlug, but III his book there are IA num-
Der of ariolypes, which are reproduced from
photographs, which show the condition of the
people of which the book treats In "A most ipcon-
troVeruble way. Ibe author of this book has
started good crusade aud 1t will eventually
lead to an amelioratlOn OF the condition of the
worthy poor. not only III Boston, but In all the
large Giles where such condition in greater or
smaller degree exists. the book is 4 very In
tetestlng one and worthy OF q careful pefusal
Offered by SAMUEL Carson & Co.
BETTER DAYS, OR A MILLIONAIRE OF To-
MoRRow-By Thomas Fitch and Anna NJ. Fitch
Company. Cloth, 1878 pp) Thomas Fitch, The
silyer-toncued orator aud lawyer assisted by
his wife, Anna III. Fitch well known as writer,
has written and caused 10 be published novel
under Tie title OF Better Days, or a Millionaire
Of Tomorrow" lu the dedication the authors
say that the book Is dedicated to the eight thou