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EDITORS BOOK TABLE
LANES r. cHuRcH's UNIVERSITY FOOT
BALL.
An Old Master -" Edward the FIRST
"a Question Of Honor Memoir
of DIR. Tyree, &C., &c.


Johnston & Co.
In this book the scene Is not laid In
Italy, as the scenes OF 20 many OF BIT
Crawford's books are. but IL located In
New York, and for the most part the
characters are people who move IN good
society there. Marion Darche Is married
10 n man who Is her inferior I'm character
ana who turns out 10 be sneaking ras-
cal He piunges into the Wall-street
maelstrom TO enlarge his fortune; loses,
and IS then guilty Of great crimes TO raise
money. For all this he is tried and con-
victed. but through the devotion OF his
wife manages to escape. Then comes the
report that ne is drowned while crossing
the English Channel.
Now poor, dear Marion begins 10 take
some interest in life again and receives
the attention Of a worthy suitor-a man
who has always loved her. Just then
comes the rumor that the rascal OF nus
band has appeared in the flesh In New
York. and Marion resolves 70 do her duty
by him, and to put or her lover ana to
receive back into her home df not into
her hearD the wretch OF a husband; but
In good time It Is developed that Darche
is really dead. that a sailor who knew
Darche had foolshly assumed Darche's
name and that thus the rumor Of the
return OF Darche got abroad, and all
ends well.
The story is artistically told The sub
ordinate characters In 1t fill their places
admirably; but yet It does not seem like
Crawford to be writing about prosaic
New York-about Wall street and New
York detectives and New York society
clubs-instead OF about stored spots like
Rome. Florence, Sorrento, &c. While we
can in no wise complain of his work. We
can't but think of him az playing a prossic
role after living for years in an etmos-
phere Of sentiment. However this Is but
another proof Of his versatility; OF his
greatness as novelist.
AN OLD MASTER AND OTHER PO-
LITICAL ESSAYS ny Woodrow VII
son, Professor OF Jurisprudence in
Princeton University: author OF Con
gressional Government" &C, ~. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893
ISL pages. Price, $i.CO. Richmond: West,
Johnston x Co.
The "Old Master" is the iustly-renown-
cd Adam Smith, "the father Of political
economy" but he was not only the author
Of 1.-THE Wealth OF Nations" (which gain
ed him that proud title) and o: The
Theory Of Moral Sentiments" but a writer
IN his admirable style on a great many
other subjects, from astronomy 10 the
fine arts. He was also a grand lecturer
and professor Of logic, as well as Of moral
philosophy, In the University OF Glasgow
or the five essays before Us, the first
two appeared in the New Princeton Re-
view, the last two IN the Atlantic
Monthly The third, on Political Soy
erelgnty," treats Of an important and
much-vexed subject. The author speaks
OF its difficulties and SAYS he intends to
be explicit and not to hedge. Yet how
ever explicit he tries to Dc, he IL often i'll
definite and even illogical How such a
man as Judge Abel p. Upshur could clear
up his mists and fogs.
our author desires that our President;
possesses the vast power which Is gene
rally ascribed TO him; dwells upon tho ex-
traordinary powers of Congress and their
modes Of procedure: objects 10 their en-
ploying so many standing committees "a
distractions 10 business. and advocates
the admission into Congress Of presiden-
active part in their deliberations.
In treating OF The Character Of De
mocracy in the United States" he intro
duces too sharp a philippe against An
drew Jackson, which is In very poor taste
in paper which purports to be general
and philosophical. lie says the famous
ex-President was sent into secluslon ar
the Hermitage. to live without power. and
die almost forgotten! How will this do
for Princeton history?
He refers 10 THE Federalist' az that
sage manual Of constitutional interprsta-
ton and advocacy" but scores It's
NATURALIZATION, Jay and Hamilton-for
"their perverse tendency to refer TO
Greece and Rome for precedents-Gresce
and Rome, which haunted all our earlier.
and even some of our more mature years. y
Had they not done so in their day, prior
TO all those rich political experiences in
our own and other countries, OF Which
their learned censor can now avail him
self they would have displayed an igno-
rance mot perversity) Of which they would
have been heartily ashamed. Neither
were they ignorant nor unmindful OF the
institutions and constitutional history OF
England, which our author RlOrtiies as
the true sources Of our better-guarded
and more expanded liberty. But he well
atones for his faults by his fine tributes
10 tho power and value OF education, or
A free press. and OF modern science by
means or steam and electricity lie seems
rather TO undervalue written constitutions.
and yet in the end, whether unwittingly
or not. vindIcates their utility and neces-
sity. on the whole these essays are In
teresting and instructive. and their style
fluent and animated.
EDWARD THE FIRST. BY Professor
~. f. TOUT. London and New York
Macmillan 4 Co. 1898. Pages. 1SS. Price,
co cents. West, Johnston q Co., Rich
mond, Va.
This well-printed work is one Of a
series OF monographs upon Twelve Eng
llsh Statesmen" They are by different
authors, with the exception that those
upon Walpole and Lord Chatham are both
by John Morley. The other nine selected
Statesmen are William, the Conqueror
Henry H.. Henry VII, Cardinal Wosey
Queen Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell. VIII
liam Ill, William Pitt and Robert Peel
or the twelve royalty furnished just one
half
There were in English history three
Kings Edward the last of whom was
STYLED 1.-THE COnfessor," prior TO Edward
l.: but they were monarchs Of the East
Angles and the Saxons. Edward |. sue
ceeded his father, Henry Ill, In 1872
whilst he was absent on a crusade, and
his kingdom had to get along without
hlm for about two years. Afterwards he
spent three years In France, trying %
compose the troubles in his possessions
there. His reign OF thirty-iive years was
full Of stirring events, marked by con-
tentions with kings. earls, barons
popes. archbishops, and other clergy, and
with repeated rebellions in France, Wales,
and Scotland. His conquest of Scotland
involved the exciting careers Of Wallace
and Bruce. and that of Wales, the fate
of the famous Llewellyns. who were sup
planted as princes OF Wales by the heirs
apparent of the Crown OF England.
Edward. aged CS years. died in Scot
liant whilst he was quelling the second up
rising OF Robert Bruce. his last days sad
dened by the thought that what he had
so labor.ously accomplished might be
| largely undone by his incompetent and
vicious son and successor.
Edward l. was great negotiator and
legislator, as well as warrior. and whilst
his figure gained him the homely sobrie-
quet. "Longshanks," his acts as a ruler
obtained for him the title OF THE Eng