The Helena independent., 1892-07-07
On to Castle!
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

abraham Lincoln and Men Of War
Times" is the title under which Hon. A.
X. Mcclure, editor Of the Philadelphia
Times. has compiled soms of his very in.
terestinR recollections Of war and politics
during Lincoln's administration. Tho
papers were originally contributed to the
| newspapers and magazines and have had
wide circulation. COL Mcclure enjoyed the
confidence of Lincoln, Cameron, Gov. Cur
tin and other leaders Of this great epoch.
and gives many bits of inside history that
were within the knowledge of NO other man
of that period. He modsstly says in the
| preface TO the book before us that he makes
no prstentions to give either biography or
q history Of Lineoln's administt alton. But
he does better than that. He corrects
many errors Of the war historians and gre
sents the great war president in his 70.
lations to the men around him, and to tho
country, in truer light than any writer has
yet done. Col. MoClure's literary style is
charming and graphic and he has made a
book that should bs in every library. The
book 10 handsomely illustrated and the
portraits OF public mon are most excellent.
that Of Lincoln in particular being the
best Of that great man We have ever seen.
The publishers. the Times Publishing COM
pany, of Philadelphia. are entitled to credit
for the handsome appearance of the vol
ume.
"The Master Of Si!ence,"a romance, by
Irving Bacheller. is the latest volume of the
Fiction. Fact and Fancy series, published
by Charles L. Webster 4 Co., New York.
Julian Hawthorne, ono of our ablest liter
ary critics, accords to this book the highest
praise az a promising venture in a new field
by new author.
The subject OF the book is. philosophioally
speaking, the potentialities of the inner
life; the results of the cultivation of those
faculties of tho soul which the superficial
material pursuits of our modern civilization
have rendered almost exanimate and use
less. To illustrate this theme, the author has
imagined child brought up under peculiar
conditions of isolation and training. He 10
protected from contact with the hypocrisies
and utilities of contemporary life; his in
tellect and his body are cultivated to the
highest pitch of efficiency, and his emotion.
al nature is, at the same time. encouraged
to expand in all humane and loving ways.
But his education does not end here. It
also involves the revival of faculties sup
posed to have been always latent in human
nature, however obscured or crippled hith-
erto by false methods of developments.
Mr.. Hawthorne says of the hero "Rayel
is good. noble, generous. The world, when
he becomes acquainted with it, at first in
terests him; then it shocks and grieves him.
Finally it awakens his profound ccmpas-
sion and he bends all the gifts and ener-
gies of his nature to make it better than
he found it. In other words, his function
in life becomes in q measure that Of a new
messiah; but, being of mortal parsntage,
the effect of his effort is to be sought rather
in the stimulus of a noble example than
of natural accomplishments. Rayel can
not work Miracles either on the physical
of spiritual plane. But he can prevent
wrong, he can help the feeble and nurse the
sick, and he can give his life for his friend.
All this and moro he does; and We are made
to feel that no one can have met and known
such man without being thereby in
creased for tho time being in mental and
ethical stature
1t is a book that will interest all readers
Of the new and strange in literature.
Business Law, a Manual for Schools
and Colleges aud for Every Day Use,' is,
as its title suggests, useful and practical
work. Its author, Alonzo II. Weed, of the
Boston bar, il a lawyer of high repute.
The scope of the work is illustrated by the
titles of some of the chapters, as follows:
Contracts, principal and agent partner
ship. deeds, mo. tRages and leases, patent
rights trademarks and copyrights. collec-
ton laws, etc. Specimens of business
forms, instruments. ETC., are appended. 1t
is just tho book for every business mans
desk. Price $l.1O. Published by D. C.
Heath d Co., Boston, Mass.