The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-01
BOOKS OF THE WEEK


HISTORY OF BATTERY 4, FIRST KEGl-
fkaMT r i puSshsa 81 Sy0sSs ~ sSs author.
Snow y Farnum print.
The First ReRimenb of the RHODE
ISLAND Light Artillery was an orgaulxa-
tion which contrives to be in the thick OF
the hardest lighting during practically
the entire. period OF the civil war. and its
George Lewis, OF 2ss Broad street, PRoyI-
DENcE is, in epitome, the story OF the
whole mighty struggle which so con-
vulsed the nation thirty years ago. The
battery was present at Williamsburg,
dnd %ar ss Sah' ana MalvssSah M '1S Fredss ss
icksburg, Charlottesville, at Gettys-
burg, where noble monument
marks the spot where three men were
killed, two mortally wounded, and
twenty-four less seriously hurt; at the
Wilderness, Spottsy!vania, Cold Harbor,
story of these once told, as Comrade
Lewis has told 1t. fully and comprehen-
sively gives the reader pretty good idea
of the decisive ana important engage
ments of the war in and about Virginia.
Mr.. Lewis has wisely chosen to include
enough Of the general history OF these en-
gagements and the campaigns leading up
to them to render the further account OF
the share taken in them by the Third
Battery ineligible.
1t was great bottery and among. its
members were many men who have risen
to distinction since the war, along with
so many whose brief lives ended In
sacrifice and suffering. The roster IN
cludes the names of such men as George
X. Randolph, the first captain, by whose
name the battery was long known; John
X. Bucklyn, now of Mystic, Conn, who
commanded at Gettysburg; William Is;
Rhodes, Sergeant and Capt. Lamb oil
Newport and Pawtucket. now dead Ezra
X. Parker of Coventry, Charles A. Brown,
Councilman William Millen, Postmaster
Butts of East Providence, DR.. Lester ;.
Hill and many others who have given
good cause to be remembered.
Sergeant Lewis work has been faith
fully and intelligently done, and it is
pretty certain that all the old Battery Il
boys. with many who never smelt powder,
will want to read IL.
Other New Books.
This is the season when OF "other new
books there are not many.
Irving Bachelors "The Master OF
Silence" has been published by Charles
K. Webster & Co. as one OF their Fic-
tion, Fact and Fancy series. Mr.. Bach
eller is q good illustration OF the fact that
a busy man can still find time to write
books. He is big, broad shouldered
chap, with hearty laugh, young looking
and as young as he looks, and as head OF
the oldest and biggest newspaper syndi-
cate does an enormous amount OF work.
Harold Frederic cables to the Times
that Lord Spencer has probably been in
duced to offer Althorp Library for sale by
the birth of a son to his brother, who will
need more money than the earldom can
now command if he should succeed to the
title aud estate.
This seems to be the finest private
library in the world.
William ii. Hurlbert has thought IL
worth while 20 translate from the French
M. Reals "The Story OF the Stick" But
there's no accounting for Mr.. Hurlbert's
tastes. (J. w. Bouton, New York;
/" Fee Short Vacation Is TN account
by Lucy l.. Williams aud Emma v. Nc
Laghlin of an economical European tour
$3.50 each the cost--with wine thrown
In at meals which would horrify our
third party friends. The book is full Of
timely and really useful information. 81.
B. Lppincott Coz
The News has received from Spencer,
Trask & Co. The Fyn.incfdt Repje,v for
1892. 1t contains statistics relating to
commerce., banking and investments
which are both valuable and interesting
The book contains q large number of
maps showing the extent of the more inn
portant railroad systems. The RevfeU
makes very handy financial reference
book.
Samuel Clough of this city has the local
agency for 1.-THE World We Live In"
soon to be published by Balch Bros,
Boston.
: For sale by Gregory. Preston q Rounds and by
Books noticed In his column may usually be
obtained Of Preston & Rounds. 81 Westminster
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