New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-28
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
ROCKS RELATING to UNITED STATES
HISTORY.

4X,,h RsHsct,ons' Anecdotes. etc BY Alexander
Scott withers.. a. New Edition Edited al. WIS, by
i Es"Sen HSio caws sosy % the Addition
Of Memoir of the Author and Several us1ra'
Author Of Kings Mountain and It's Heroes csr .
PIP. Xxx. Az Cincinnati; The Robert o'a'Ne
Company.
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Collected and Edited by Psal heifs'1ps nn nGrq
Vol V, 17sS-l792. Up. xviii 5h u T. '"'
sons.
RECORDS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY, t WAR.
Containing the Military and Financiai go 0orr e,
spondence of Dstingushed ofi Sssen Ms Com
panes and Corps with the Dates Of Their rarr con" Of
missions and Enlis%en9is scen Gen at 1cermantown
and vaey Win rd List df Of rhs4 9spurs
FsS Hes Of the con mental Congress the Reyo
aCsr. Of tSs % Army acquired
me Rshi to g. Hsh 4 Esan SH" "o"nseor snd
Agent for Revolutionary Claims Th'rd hu''
ton Baltimore: Charles G. sanen'
THE NITARS an ri Hlcr cH, Dude
With Maps and Illustrations ny II rho tiobsspt
ton rP, XVIII ~" 0"'''""a"'
oRi rRSi A Il rctoNFEpERkTE s; r"s
H snsS f tor r the Military Historical society OF
Merrschusotts by Houshton. Minn Co.
FOLLOWING rnr GREEK CROSS ., or, Msw &c
ties Of the sixth Army Corps. ny ihorhas w
iiyie i,fevet nrigadiei-Gcnetai Of Volunteers
With Numerous Portraits rp. Al. 9ea' housh'
ton Mirln Co
Wtthora'a "chronicics" does not appear 10 nave
been one II the widely known books CONCERNING
border warfare that were eagerly read by INC
youngsters of half century ago Thefr w''o
Nvelier narratives ~ the exploits 81 p"h'e
Boone, Lewis Wetzel ana other forest worthies
which were more popular, Hut with those 10
whom IL was known no book appears 10 nave
been a greater favorite. The hrst edition was
practically read out Of existence The tattered
volumes were scanned and rubbed until nothing
was left Of them 1t was published at Wheeling
in 1884, and limited TO the actual NUMBER
OF subscribers so that 1t difficult book to
obtain at airy time. But all who were inter
ested In the history of the pioneers valued 1t
highly. for II offered them what they could not
get elsewhere-the traditions of the people VINO
had survived the perils Of savage wars. 1t took
more than one hand to prepare the book In inc
first place Hugh Paul Taylor gathered from
aged persons the story Of the settlement or the
Virginia Valley and published 1t in country
newspaper. The articles which he wrote COW
cred the period from 174O TO the close Of the
Revolution. Then judge in what is now Bar
bour County, West Virginia taking Taylors
work as a nucleus, added much which he had
himself collected and finally turned the whole
mass over to Withers. Others who CLEANED for
Vithers were Noah Zane. Of Wheeling, and John
Hacker Of Hackers Creek. Withers himself was
q remarkable man for a new country. His grand
mother was first cousin of Sir Walter Scott
Though he was educated for the law. he was
too timd TO speak before a court. and so con-
tented himself with farming and collecting ma
terial for his Border Warfare" and with the
study Of Greek literature for which he retained
oil
might have lkened himself to Herodotus, for he
also depended almost wholly oral reports
rather than on previous writings for his history.
Thus while he aimed at a general history of the
border. he has given only enough Of II to link to-
gether the innumerable adventures that were
related to him Of families and individuals.
His record is one of incessant conflict and
boodshed. In which the cruelty of the white
man was hardly less conspicuous than that Of
the Indian. He covers the period from the first
white movements across the Blue Ridge down
10 the subjugation of the savages by General
Wayne All the great affairs of early western
pioneering-the massacre OF the Moravan Ind
ians at Guadenhuten. the burning Of Colonel
Crawford. the assassination OF Cornstak, the
disastrous battle Of Blue Licks. the fortunate
expedition OF George Rogers Clark. the mis-
fortunes Of ST. Clair: and most Of the famous
James Smith and his Black Boys. Morgan
Schoolcraft Ruddle. Williamson and a host Of
others. ere commemoratod In these pages The
effort of the Robert Clarke Company To reprint
the book as an addition to their Americana
seems 20 have met with vclssItudcs like those
which attended the attempt to gather the ira
dltions Dr. Lyman C. Draper had made n life
long study Of Western history I'm the hope never
10 be realized. of writing the biographies Of all
Che pioneers. and he consented to edit Witherss
work. Ills death after he had written n me
inoir and added notes 10 about one hundred
pages Of the original threw the work into the
hands of Mr.. Thwaitcs. The annotations Of tho
new edition are testimony to the resources Of
the Wisconsin Historical Society.
The NTH volume Of Mr.. Tord's edition Of
Jefrcrson's writings begins with letters from
Paris where Jefferson remained M Minister
until after the adoption OF the Constitution. and
passes on 10 his experience IN Secretary Of state
under Washington. His appeals for n Bill Of
Rights to form part Of the Constitution cut a
considerable figure here. While still In Paris he
discussed In letters to Washington the problems
OF canal communication between the Potomac
and Ohio valleys and showed that he had made
some study OF canals In France He was also
alive 10 information which seemed to him to
prove that canal could be dug across the
1sthmus Of Panama. At the same time he inter-
ested himself in stories about the tomb OF Virgil
and particularly instructed one Of bis CORE
spondents not TO believe In the genuineness Of
the legendary laurel until he had given a good
tug at IT to see that II was something besides
a mere slip stuck in the ground by the guides.
AS Secretary Of State his private letters
al one time devoted TO the plan for the assump-
ton Of State debts by the general Government
He almost invariably defended this measure on
the ground that it could not be avoided. and
that It was better TO yield and have the Ma
tional capital on the Potomac than to refuse all
compromise ard then be forced to yield in the
end The jefferson Of this period is, in fact.
hardly the Jefferson Of the later strict construc-
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