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The setting of the story is vigorous
and skillful, the narrative is engross
ingly interesting, and the revelation of
the Supply at once startles and up
lifts. The book is every way artistic
and is admirable for an Easter gift"
The volume is especially interesting
just now, as it tells the story of how a
rich old church was stirred to it's
depths by supply" one bitter winter
morning, wht the rector was nursing
his weak throat on q vacation in the
south of France. There is rather
thick veil OF mystery over the incl
dent of that wonderful day of SER
mons. but the 81 DRY is we'll sustained
and brilliant in treatment. 1t is very
short, and should not, therefore, be too
elaborately analysed in book notice,
but left to the reader to pass upon
without much hint as to motif. The
illustrations are charming.
1t is the prettiest book of the spring,
and is just in season for an Easter
gift.
1t is never out of place to remark in
Mifii MS volumes, that no fear is ever
felt as to their wholesomeness and
worth; while, as to workmanship, these
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| SOUTHERN SIDE LIGHTs-A picture OF social
| and economic life in the so-th genera
tion before the war BY EDWARD INGLE,
index one cloth ot s vo p IN appeoHiifs
| library of economics and poitics) I. y.
| Crowell Co., New York and Boston.
After defining what he means by the
term Southern" Mr.. Ingle takes up
in turn the following topics: 81.
Traits Of the People. II. Where Cot
ton Was Ruler. Ill. Phases of Indus
try. w. Trade and Commerce. V.
The Educational Situation. vi. Liter
ary Aspirations. VII. Plans of Pro.
gress. VIII. The Peculiar Institution,
and TX. The Crisis.
The rather poetical title of Mr..
lngle's volume exactly expresses what
it is; at the same time it also masks to
a certi in degree the amount of invalu-
able information which is condensed
with skill and sense of proportion
within its comparatively small COM
pass. Readers of Green's History of
the English People. and one might per-
laps say also McMaster's History of
America, are acquainted with the
method which Mr.. Ipgle employs in
relating his story. He gathers from
contemporary magazine and newspaper
articles, from public documents, from
private letters, every available testi-
mony in regard to the particular state
of society Or politics which he is desir-
GUS Of presenting and picturing. These
he works into sort of mosaic, blen J.
ing them in such way as to form a
harmonious picture. His own COM
ments, which give every impression of
candor, are the unifying principle
which runs through the whole.
1t is simple justice to the publishers
of this volume to say that it is one of
the most valuable contributions to go
cial and political history that we have
seen these late years. 1t throws light
on be conditions of the south in 1860,
and makes clearer than ever before the
temper of the southern people, and the
causes of the REBELLION. 1t is excellent
in style, full as to facts and statistics,
honest and open in spirit and temper
though challenging criticism many
times-ard is in all ways of immense
interest and value. An excellent index
perfects the authors plan.
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The AMERICAN WIFE. 1t is the fashion
Of certain writer's and lecturers to
speak of the American woman as lily
of the field. She tolls not, neither does
she spin, and yet Solomon in all his
glory was not arrsyed like unto her.
She is represented as spending in
prodigal extravaganza the dollars
coined by meek and overworked hus-
band, as despising motherhood and
domesticity, and never SO happy as
when she waves adieu to husband and
home from the deck of an ocean
steamer. Contrasted with this picture
is that of the German house frau sit
! ting at work in the midnt of her maid
ems. the French mother, who is queen
in her household, and is satisfied to
know nothing of the great outer world.
and that tower of virtue and respect
ability, the British matron, as she
checks over her butchers accounts,
and calls on the cook to account for
the drippings of the meat.
1t is unfortunately impossible to
deny the existence of the extravagant
woman, but she is not the exclusive
product of any nation, and does not
represent the great mass of the women
of any country. The woman who wears
diamonds to breakfast and who spends
her life in Europe, while her husband
tolls at home to furnish the sinews of
war. is not representative of American
wifehood, and any view which does not
represent the American woman as a
true helpmeet to her husband is a very
false and superficial one.
1t is true that the American woman