Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-02
SOME NEW BOOKS.

THE LIFE OF GEORGE Masonry hate
Mason Rowland, New Y ork and London:
G.. 2. Putnam 81 Sons. vols.
The preparation Of this exhaustive
narrative of the life Of one of the most
illustrious VirginianS of Revolutionary
times has evidently been labor OF love
with Mrs. Rowland, and well has she
performed her task. George Mason
was remarkable man in many ways,
and chief among his characteristics was
his far-seeing craftsmanship. de
was an earnest and well-informed CHAM
pion of the largest liberty for the peo-
pie OF the new government he did so
much to found. He urged with tact,
persistency and ultimate success his
conception that the authority oil the
citizens alone should control the gov
eminent, and that it existed only by
their will and consent. His warnings
as TO the exercise of undelegated power
by Congress or the President were truly
prophetic, and so solicitous was he Tor
the welfare Of the States and the peo-
pie that he refused to attach his sigma
ture to the Constitution, as IT came from
the hands of its trainers in 1857, because
he considered that instrument did not
completely guard the safety OF the
States. He carried his ideas and his
plans into the Virginia Convention called
TO ratify the Constitution, and insisted
with eloquence upon amendments which
would forever .obiterate 1.-The awful
souint towards Monarchy" aud so great
was the effect of his oratory that even
the efforts of such men as John Mar
shall, Edmund Randolph, Harry Lee,
and Madison, supported morally by
Washington, could secure no more than
ten majority in a total vote OF l6S, ana
this, too, only after Zine States had al
ready endorsed it.
The GODDESS or ATvATABAR.-By William
II. Bradshaw. New York; j. K. Don
thitt
This is a striking example OF the ro-
mantle school of fiction, OF the type
made famous recently by II. Rider
Haggard in "She," and at a remoter
date by Swift in "Gulliver'S Travels,
and Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia" The
story is one of extravagant adventure
in the interior of the earth, and rests
upon what is known as the
Symmes theory that the earth
is hollow, wsth openings at the poles;
and that the ocean flows drought these
openings giving access TO haoltaole
regions is the interior OF the globe,
which is assumed TO be lighted by
natural electrical conditions and TO
present vast expanSes OF habitable land
and navigable sea. Here Mr.. Brad
shaw mas created new world
out OF his imagination, aad has done it
we'll, as will be agreed to by the intelll-
gent reader upon a careful perusal OF
the volume. The story is plausible,
symetrical and interesting, and the pre-
fatory review by Julian Hawthorne
an appreciative tribute to the authors
labors-well prepares the reader Tor the
pleasure before him.
OpEs AND EPODEs OF HoRACE.-Trans
lated by John b. Hague, Phi. ID. New
York and London: O.. p Putnam's Sons.
These translatious, which are accom-
panied by the Latin text and copious
notes, are the result Of thirty years OF
work by Mr.. Hague, ten years Of that
time being alone devoted to moulding
the work to its present form. One OF
the results of this painstaking care is
the very condensed form the
translations take, yet the lyrics
are represented more closely
than has generally been con-
sidered necessary where the forms Of
poetry have been employed. Two
epodes are omitted, as is usual, and the
one hundred and twenty-one poems
given are divided into groupeS, seventy
eight being in stanzas OF four lines each,
and of these thirty-Six are in the meas
IRE styled Alaiic, and twenty-six in the
Sapphic measure, leaving sixteen divid-
ed between other measures. Thirty-Six
other odes are in coupletS, and seven in
equal lines. The edition is elegantly
printed.
CRAwPoRD.- BY Mrs Gaskell. New York
and London: G.. 2. Putnam's Sons.
This is a charming addition 10 the
popular" Kuickerbocker Nugget" series
OF which thirty-Six volumes are now
available. The story is dalntily aud
artistically told, and abounds in d.
lightful episodes and scenes.