The herald., 1896-07-05
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EDITED BY ENocH KNIGHT

| fdct, there are rev IN California over 10,
feet high. If, however, some were plant
ed in any of the burned and desolated
redwood coast canyons of California,
where the conditions of moisture and ex-
posure are similar to those in its native
haunts. we might reasonably expect to
see blue gum trees eventually as tall as
any in Australia. In its native haunts
the blue gum is often, nay, generally
exposed to light frosts. Some very OBJ
servant planters in the warmer parts
of New South Wales state that the euca-
lyptus globulus is never a long lived and
| really successful tree unless subjected
to occasional nipping airs. Other au-
| thorities, however claim successful ex-
| periments in tropical highlands with this
species, locations probably free from
| frost But such reports are only made
from tropical sections with heavy rain
fall. The tree has failed in Arizona and
| Texas. But in those places, its failure
! is due, doubtless, to excessive frost on
the one hand and prolonged excessive
| heat on the other.
"The eucalypti that have been at all
| popular in California that are native to
| Queensland and North Australia are eu-
| calyptus pilularis, eucalyptus sideroxy-
| lon, eucalyptus hemiphloia, eucalyptus
siderophloia, eucalyptus maculata, euca-
| lyptus rostrata, eucalyptus tereticornis.
| eucalyptus resinefera and eucalyptus
| robusta. There are others like eucalyp-
| tus corymbosa, eucalyptus paniculata,
eucalyptus crebra, eucalyptus haemas-
toma, etc, which may prove valuable to
| us when better known"
! AS to the general sanitary benefits re-
| sulting from the cultivation of the tree
| here. Mr.. Kinney does not claim to be
able to check up the conditions; but he
| has a very interesting chapter on its
| various medicinal properties, closing
with tbe following ma ra praph.
Eucalyptus oil sprayed once or twice
a day in sick room takes off the stuffy
or sick room smell and has the effect of
making the air feel brighter and more
stimulating. When to these good quail
ties we add the authenticated antseptic
effects of eucalyptus oil, we may well be
surprised that it or some similar agent
is not universally used in sick rooms,
hospitals and maternity wards. The
spray is also used in diphtheria."
The Chemistry of the Eucalyptus is
the title of one chapter of the volume
that will be found surprisingly full of
instruction and suggestion. There is
also very full glossary, valuable for
reference.
The book Is sure to attract large
class of readers, but to make it of the
utmost use and value to the general
public, we hope some time to see it in a
more condensed and popular form,
which, if made beautiful by retaining
and judiciously displaying the superb
illustrations, would insure a volume of
great general interest and attractive
ness.
SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED
STATES. By j. William Jones, D.
D. r. H. Woodward & Co.
We have received advanced sheets of
this work, confessedly written to cor
rect some political errors and prejudices
declared to exist in all school histories
now in use regarding the affairs of the
rebellion. The author believes that the
southern view has not been fairly pre-
sented.
DIR. Jones is the author of Personal
"reminiscences of R. E. Lee and the
Davis Memorial volume, and was well
qualified to write of the war from the
standpoint of a sympathizer with the
| south, but it must be confessed that he
makes a poor showing if he has really
made an attempt to be historically COR
rect and fair. In his account of the bat
ties and in his estimate of men and pur-
poses he is sadly narrow and partisan
partisan in small ways. 1t is not work
to be commended or very seriously con-
sidered.
A PARTISAN IN AMERICA. By De
Scissors.
Last week we made brief mention of
De Sissons' new book on America, and
promised to give a fuller consideration
later on. A further reading does not
quite bear out the promise of the first
few topics treated.
1t is faulty in many respects That it
must be superficial in judgment is
rather to be taken for granted. Few peo-
pie have poise of judgment that makes
fairness possible in a book of this kind.
But it is a very wholesome book for
Americans to read, because so many
things are valuable in the way of cor
rection and suggestion. For instance,
if our newspapers could be squared by
some of the truths the author utterS
they would be greatly improved. His
structures upon our art and his cheerful
admissions that we are gradually i'm
proving are in the main just and whole
some.
Who shall say, too that what he says
of our millionaires has not much of
truth? The following extracts are in
point:
He is, indeed, ridiculously vain; ask
an American millionaire which he pre-
fers, London or Paris, without hesita
ton he will answer that he prefers the
great "fog CENTER" push him a little
further and he will tell you that in Lon
don there is a court. an hereditary
prince, .lHe leNee VI lie queeIl'
Bah, the cat is out of the bag; the great
ambition of a Yankee millionaire is to
be present at the levee of the queen in
London and to come back early enough
to be present at the levee of the horizon
tale in Paris.
LAS soon as the American millionaire
has received at his home some man with
a title he ceases to be common million
aire. He will be millionaire who once
spoke to a real English lord; this heiress
once hirted with an Italian count; this
lady gave a dinner in honor of Due de
".
''The American millionaires have their
rich, if not tasteful. houses; their set Of
four hundred; they have everything
which great wealth can give; but they
do not have la grande dame, lie grand
seigneur. nor the salon.
Mobility is not a question of parch
ment but, rather, it is simply kind of
noble tradition, passing from generation
to generation and kept and cultivated
for centuries.
1.-The Count de Mirabeau, a descendant
of one of the greatest races of Provence,
although he insisted in the Assamblee
Nationale on the suppression of aristo-
cratic privileges, still wished to keep his
title, his carriage with his coat of arms.
his laCkeys in livery and spoke in these
words: L think the same as you about
our privileges of nobility, but ii is impos
sible to take from the heart of the noble
man the memory of a noble past; real
nobility is, in this regard a holy prop
| erty and cannot be annihilated The
! forms will be changed but the worship