The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14

such /. book can hardly perform q service to
humanity or have "a wholesome influence
upon the public mind. Its nature is incendi-
sry for all its complacency.
published by ID. Appleton g. Go. For sale
by Gregory. Price sl25
What we see OF the social unrest or the
present day Is, after all. nothing new. II has
ever been in evidence. Mr.. Bellamy tells us
that hundred years after the American rsvo-
luton the people set TO on their social rcvolu-
tion, and he portrays the results from the
Populism and Socialism Of our present day a.
creating The cooperative worlG of the year
1000. But so short time rs decade after
the Declaration of Independence there was the
same soN or a movement of the masses
against the Glasses" as we are now asked 10
believe is going on-and of which Mr.. Bellamy
gives us his theory of the ultimate fruits. As
far back as 1885 there was an uprising designed
10 accomplish exactly what Mr.. Bellamy
plans as having been undertaken successfully
something like century later. The first
troubles that confronted the government of tho
now United States Of America were due TO
this same hostility among the wage earning
and agricultural classes TO the ''plutecrats'
and the "moneyed class. IL was the farmer
who figured in this rebellion rather more con-
spicuously than "labor." and Captain Daniel
Shays was the chief exponent and leading
spirit of the movement. Because OF the simi'
larity Of tho conditions of the new country
in this respect in 1888 ana today, book OF
historic fiction entitled "Daniel shays, aPop'
ulst Of 1885," by George L. X. Rivers, is pc
culiarly interesting as well as readable, being
a STIRRING story
The author Of this entertaining novel points
no moral and does not "take sides" But on
the thread of "A clever romance he gives Us In
attractive shape "A most interesting picture OF
the times Of "Shay's Rebellion IL Is a. read
able q book as any fiction lover could ask for.
and 20 the student of social conditions OF our
day IL is strikingly suggestive as dcmonstrat-
Ing that what We now are witnesses of is,after
ALL only repetition Of somet!i ing that we have
successfully passed through before. That the
grievances of certain classes Of the people
were cruelty real was true then as now
That they were made use of for tho elevation
of demagogues and were nade more painful
instead Of being ameliorated was as true then
as now, The book is good lesson for the
student of our own times because of the ex-
ample il furnishes and the careful and faith
full presentation made. by the author. 1t Is a
charming story with some delightful people in
it that we are glad to have created for us, and
as pretty n love story as ever was written.
published by Little, Brown d Co.. Boston.
For sale 10y all booksellers)
Looking still farther backward, we get an
interesting and faithfully told romance of
American revolutionary history in book
called ''In Buff and Blue" being certain por-
tions from the diary Of Richard Hilton,
Gentleman, of Haslet's Regiment, Delaware
Foot, in our ever glorious War of Independ'
ence," by George Brydges Rodney. 1t treats
of the Rovoluli ionary progress from the view
point of a soldier in the famous Delaware reg
imsnt of fighters, and impresses the reader AZ
an accurate portrayal Of real events-perhaps
too accurate for its fortunes as romance and
a love story. However, IL is told in spirited
fashion, and altogether j. an acceptable beck
for a summer days reading. Like Captain
shays," IL Is most attractiveiy printed and
bound, with all the fine style Of the publish
ing house that presents it-Messrs. Little,
Brown a. Co. of Boston. For sale by all book.
sellers.