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simply one of his accomplishments. And
yet no member of the legal profession IN
i; New York ever accumulated for himself so
large fortune in so short time. he
concentrated his attention entirely upon
cases involving large, often enormous,
interests: Cases of minor importance ne
neither invited nor encouraged. II such
came to his Office they were conflded to his
subordlnates. His professional charges
were exceedingly moderate, based ratner
on work done than in advantages accrulng
to clients. He never allowed himself to ac-
cept contingent retainer. his cases We're
won by sheer intellectual force, never by
trick or technicality, and he was relent-
less worker. both of himself and those who
were connected with him. In the spring
OF 1875 he became very impatient with the
dilatoriness of one of the counsel IN suits
then pending in New York against Tweed
and his confederates. He sent for the
tory, but who came and concluded his de-
fense with the remark that he could not
entirely neglect his private. business;
when you accepted this retainer, sald
Tllden, ''vou said you would not permit
your private business to Interfere with IT,
The counsel said something about not
wishing to appear at the bar as a man Win
one client or of one idea.
Sir exclaimed the Governor, fercely,
"a man who is not monomanlac Is not
worth -"
Mr.. Tilden never married. He never
felt the need for other wife or COM
panion than his career and his intellectual
resources. His delicate health, his keen
personal ambition and absorption In public
life occupied his entire attention. He
never came into intimate relation with
any woman. He had not even the fem
mime friendships that most intellectual
men affect. His celibacy and his fortune
made him an object of interest however,
to matrimonially inclined womanhood,
correspondence with Tilden makes anus
ing reading.
AS statesman, man among men, 8
thinker and diplomat, Mr.. Tilden was,
all in all, a wonderful personality. His
biographer had exceptional advantages and
has used well the material at his COM
mand. Whether the readers attitude to-
ward the subject is one of admiration or
enmity, the admission must be made that
here was one of the most remarkable men
this country has produced, whose impress
upon the century is unmistakable and in
effaceable.
New York: Harper & Bros. For sale
by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco
Enemies in'the Rear.
The author of this book, Francis T.
Hoover, says, justly, that "the complete
history of the War of the Rebellion will
probably never be written" He. himself,
however, has given US in this story chap
ter that is both novel and interesting. 1t
has to do with one of the maLy forces with
which the National Government had to
deal all during the war, enemies in the
rear, stirring up disaffection and tumult
at home, while loyal Northern men were
at the front, lighting for National unity.
The particular enemy here shown was the
organization known as 1.-THE Knights of
the Golden Circle" or 'tSons of Liberty
This was secret order in sympathy with
the South and assisting it in every way. 1t
encouraged drafted men to resist, dis
couraged volunteers, aided rebels to escape
sowed the seeds of discomfort in the army
and in all possible ways camped on the
trail of the harassed Government and en-
deavored to hinder its efforts to maintain
the Union.
paratively little known in literature-the
Pennsylvania Dutch. Now the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch are not Dutch people at all,
but Germans. Mr.. Hoover grew up among
these people, and has given US a delight
full insight into their life and habits of
thought. As said before, these people are
rarely met with in literature. They speak
dialect which is a mixture of Dutch,
German and English. sadly corrupted in
form and pronunciation, but retaining the
German idiom. The result is. to the aver
age English speaker, literally unutterable.
Even now there are whole neighborhoods
in Southeastern Pennsylvania where very
few families can speak anything save this
patois, though all can understand and
most can read pure German Mr.. Hoover
has not attempted to reproduce the dia-
lect, but his pictures of the people will be
recognized by one who has ever been
among them as drawn to the life. The
Pennsylvania Dutchman is above all
things conservative, and he has been gem
orally prosperous. He is kindly and sim
northumberland prejudiced. His knowl-
edge is far from up to date. His religion,
his politics, his habits of thought are
nearly what those of his grandfather were.
When the rebellion broke out these people
saw in it little but cunning scheme OF
both Northern and Southern leaders to
enrich themselves at the expense OF the
people. They had horror of the war,
the causes of which they knew nothing,
and it came to pass that in many ways
they bitterly opposed the Government in
its efforts to put down slavery. MIS-
taught by their leaders and their clergy
alike, they entertained the most absurd
notions about the whole situation.
Into this section propagandist OF the
Knights of the Golden Circle came, to
| organize a lodge. The movement found
numerous adherents, and so troublesome
did the order become that the Government
was forced to break it UP and arrest the
leader. A mob of his followers marched
| upon Reading to rescue him. Here, for
the first time, they really came in contact
with the outer world, and learned more in
one day of what the United States Govern
ment really is than they could have found
out in fifty years at home. The author has
kept closely to historic facts and interest
in the historic side of his narrative almost
| overshadows that inspired by the very
| pleasant welt of romance running through
the historic warp. Some OF the situations
are deliciously funny and the reader un-
| familiar with the Germans of Southeastern
| Pennsylvania will be tempted to think he
| has been carried to foreign land.
| Boston: The Arena Publishing Com
pany. For sale at the Popular Bookstore,