The National tribune., 1894-08-09

EVERY INCH A SOLDIER BY John Strange
Winter. Published by }. ID. Lippincott Company,
PEiiadeplis, Pa. and for sale by Breniano WASH
ingion. d. &. Price ST.
No writer before the, English speaking world
writes more eharmingly interesting stories than
the autlIoress whose prolific pen has given us
Bootless Baby" The Other Mans Wife, y
"Only Human" Aunt Johnnie" ETC. Her
characters all real flesh and blood men and
women. the good ones very brave. honest, and
true, and who love and hate in a very sincere.
positive way. This story has very sweet
love-idyl running through it, charming descrip-
lions of society and solder-lfe
NEW ROADS AND ROAD LAWS IN ~fYE
UNITED STATES. BY Roy Stone U. S. Special
Agent aud Engineer for Road Inquiry, Depart
ment of Agriculture. Published by ID. Van
Nostrnnd Co., q Warren street, New York.
Price $780,
The book deals with facts accomplished
rather than with theories of legislation or road
construction, and without going into needless
detail it gives the results of various successful
experiments in divers localities, aud shows how
the same methods may be copied and improved
upon elsewhere. IL etiectnaliy disposes of high
taxation, and shows where and how farmers
are actually getting rich in these hard times
by of their good roads, while bearing
their full share OF the cost Of building them.
1t Diseases the questions of State aid, convict
labor, railroad cooperation, the attitude of
farmers, wheelmen, and commercial organ liza
tions aud the revival of business through road
building, aud on the whole presents view of
the prospects of road improvement generally,
which should put new hope and courage into
the hearts OF the workers in this great field.
We believe this book will meet general desire
OF the public for information regarding the
progress Of road Improvement III this country.
CAVALRY LIFE IN TENT AND FIELD. BY
Mrs. Orsemus b. BOYD. Published by J. Selwn
fai Sons, Chicago. Price 80 cents.
This Is one OF those simple, plain, true, life
narratives that fascinate the attention and
hold it to the end. Orsemus b. Boyd was
patriotic youth of Is, who left school in 1861 TO
volunteer. lie was too young TO be mustered
IN, but he staiI with the S9th n. Y. until his
gallantry gained him place in the ranks, and
he commissioned Second Lieutenant in the
Hath n. Y. lie commanded his company
before he was Is. lie was appointed 10 West
Point, graduated from there in 1867, and was
commissioned in the 9Th u. s. Cav. Three
months after grad uation he married the author
of this story. who had also just graduated, and
full of the hope and courage of youth she ac-
ccmpanied him to his post OH the distant from
tier. IL was "a terrible experience for young,
delicately reared girl, for all manner of hard
ships, dangers, and discomtorts awaited her.
She met them all bravcly and without murmur
and has woven them into this charming and in
teresting narrative. 1t will fascinate everyone.
II took more courage to dare and endure what
she did than to carry man into battle. But
she, like thousands Of other women, accepted
il all gladly to be with her husband, and she
suffered unheard-of deprivations gladly rather
than be separated from him. 1t is the truest,
most lifelike picture of life in the army on the
the frontier that has ever been written, and
everyone who admires womany fortitude and
wifely devotion should read it,
THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY. Story Of the
18th Mass. from July l6. 1861, TO Aug. 1864. By
Charles Il. Davis, jr. Published by Estes d
Lauriat, Boston.
This handsome volume is all that its name
implies. 1t is plete in every way, and
gives strong evidence of the painstaking care
of the writer, who has endeavored to give ac-
curate statements of the whereabouts of his
| regiment on each day of its service, and to con-
vey truthful picture of army life as it APP
peared to the rank and file. The book is taste
| fully bound in blue cloth. printed on the best
of paper, and would be most valuable addition
to every veterans library.
GEORGE II. THOMAS. Critical Biography.
BY Dom Piatt with concluding chapters by
Henry " Boynton. Published by Robert Clark
x Co., Cincinnati. Price So.
At the time of Col. Piatt's death he had com.
pleted his life of Thomas up to the opening of
the Atlanta campaign. This portion of the
work comprises 19 chapters While closely fol-
lowing the campaigns in which Gen. Thomas
| took part, and noting his uniform success, it
presents at every step the contemporaneous
movements of other armies. Thus the work is
to great extent history of the war. 1t is
written in Col Piatps well-known trenchant
style, and is doubtless the most incisiye of all
his war criticisms. At the request of Mrs. Piatt,
Gen. Ii. V. Boynton has furnished concluding
chapters presenting the salient points of Gen.
Thomas's participation in the Atlanta and
Nashville campaigns, and history more COM
plete than any yet undertaken of the wonder
full cavalry expedition Of Gen. JAS. Ii. Wilson,
sent by Gen. Thomas against Selma and Mont
gomery after the destruction of Hoods army.
These closing chapters, IL in number also pre-
sent an outline of Gen. Thomass career after
the war, and up to his tragic death in San Fran
CISCO The circumstances of his death, which
Gen. Boynton treats as falling little short of
assassination, are set forth in detail. The book
is bound in plain green cloth, and contains
fine steel engraving of Gen. Thomas.