The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-10

been criticised as rejecting somewhat
| upon Garfield and one or two others VINO
| were in some way connections of SheI-
man for faovrs, but the justice of these
CRITICISMS is not easily discoverab BILE. The
tone Of the whole work will, we feel
pected of an experienced. conservative
man who has no occasion or excuse to
! be harsh in judgments. 1t IS a most in
tefesting book. not equal in romance to
Benton's Thirty Years. View, nor
sparkling like Blaine's Twenty Years in
purpose and will command confidence
and respect. Senator sherman has
done good service to his country. He has
not always besn brave enough to speak
out when he ought, and be has COM
promised not q few times whom more
which his powers and opportunities
made tainable; but who has not given
up sometning to party that was meant
for mankind?
Perhaps the most notable lapse of the
U vsS sfn nar S WAS Il an ss, 9 oPpSss
money. While he did not favor the
greenbaok herrsy. he did not grapple with
1t as his known opinions woald have
com PEELED him to do If he had aMo we'd
himself the luxury of season of absolute
Independence. The next noteworthy
some courageous thing was in 1884 when
the country was overrun with organized
armies breathing out threatenings and
slaughter against the government, and
the capital itself threatened and invaded.
Nothing of help or even of good advice
came from congressman. and not much
was expected, for their patriotism is too
often local; but something better ought
| to have been expected from such man
as sherman, who not only failed to speak
on the right side, hut actually gave voice
| to compromising weakness. Senator
| Sherman is O statesman, but not q heroic
one.
THE VILLAGE wATCHTOWER. BY
Mrs. Kate Douglass Wiggin, author
Of The Birds Cbristmas Carol, etc.
16mo, 81. Houehton. M,fiin & Co,
Boston. For sale by Stoll & Thayer.
A beautiful volume OF six stories. some
| OF them familiar to magazine reader
and all charming. Mrs. Wiggin never
writes dull PAGE. She never has need
| to potter and pad. Her books are live
things, so much life has she to put into
them "a quaintness OF fun quite uncom-
mon.
| 1t Is Of small account which of these
stories is best Or by any reader considered
best; but it is important to say the PLAIN
truth 400 ut them AMI vote EN- among
the very best short stories to be offered
tulb year, thoroughly Us NEW EnglhnQ
has bsen "worke.i" by the tale-teller, we
cannot mistake the genuine flavor of
these stories. They are rs fresh IS the
very first literary fruit of the region. The
little town on the Sacu. bali way be-
7, tween the mountains ana the sea, is Us
! well known to the writer as any bit of
Ian dscape could be. 1t did produce the
very scenes and characters portrayed in
| these pages. "Libe'' Lane In actual flesh
and blood did drive the odd team OF
| three horses known to the country as
(, the ''spike'' team-and "hshed" them
| through the drifts aud spring snow
daily to Portland before the York and
| Gum berland railway was buiit-the
,"York and Yankem" of the story.
Quillcots is even slower than Mode ton,
| q little further away. Not change in
| fifty years. except s1ch a. time cannot
help making. 1t has always been the
! opinion of the writer that they built old
houses there, to start with. It is in one
of these where Mrs. WigRin has Judged
many q simmer and worked the lSne
! days under the old apple tree on the
bank OF the river that just here begins to
fret bit and hurry on its course TO- sing
At last in the great glad chorus OF the
sea, thirty miles away. A more restful
| and yet Inspiring spot 10 not In all New
| EnRlani today than this one chosen by
Mrs. Wiggin to do these fine bits OF work.
THE NEW WOMAN.-This is the title
Of Mrs. Linson's too long novel, whion