The herald., 1897-03-28

are being more widely read than almost
any others before the public
The most picturesque figure in the
group in many ways is John Randolph
of Roanoke. Many new things are said
about him, or old things in new and
striking way. The fact is, we have
known very little about Randolph-we
of the last generation. There is no other
figure in public who can be compared
to him. Nor could any other period have
produced such a character. His legis-
lative career stretched from 1893 to 1883,
and he was a terror alike to his friends
OF the south and his enemies Of the north.
He did the strangest, even widest,
things and gloried in them. He never
pointed his long finger without making
some one tremble," has been said of him
many times. Perhaps the most striking
passage in the sketch here given of him
is the account of his audacious cam
paign against Patrick Henry. Randolph
was capable of being generous but not
of being just and fair. He was wonder
full man but not a really great one.
OF Calhoun, Toombs. Stephens and
Davis we can only say the treatment
seems to us rather happy. The fact APP
pears that these men were, after all.
mainly creatures of environment. On
all lHlHSS OulSlUt lildl dlAldiAtS
between state rights and slave power
all these men had love and pride OF
country. But that sad and fatal alliance
committed them to a SectionaliSm that
dwarfed all else in their line of vision.
The result of their political efforts was
sure to be disastrous, since, as Alexan-
der Stephens once boldly declared, any
structure must fall that had for its COR
ner stone slavery.
PrOfaeeOr Trent has oiveu II in the ieo-
lures that make up this volume much
that is valuable as side-lights upon our
political history, and has done it all III
a philosophical as we'll as otherwise
charming way
THE APE, THE IDIOT AND SOME
OTHER PEOPLE BY w. c. Nor
row. j. b. Lippincott Company.
This very handsome volume contains
fourteen short stories contributed to
the Overland Monthly, Lippincott, the
Argonaut, Examiner and Call. and are
now brought together for the first time.
Mr.. Morrow is too well known in Cali
fornia as a brilliant story writer to need
any introduction through these col
umns. His work has always been in
demand because it has always been
good, and it is gratifying to find a col
lection of his best stories in this perma-
nent and attractive form.
To our mind The Resurrection of
Little Wang Tar and "A Game of Hon
or" are the most striking tales in the
volume.
A MARITAL LIABILITY. BY Eliza
beth Phipps Train, author of THE
Autobiography of a Professional
Beauty "A Social Highwayman,"
etc. Illustrated by Violet Oakley.
]. B. Lippincott company.
This newest volume in the Lotus
Library series will be sure to be widely
read. even if there were no other rea-
son than the natural curiosity of the
public to see whether the success of
"A Social Highwayman" could be so
soon repeated, or repeated at all. The
plot of this story is of the sensational
order, bold and swiftly changing. II is
the story of wronged husband who suf-
fered years of imprisonment rather than
betray his wife the really guilty party.
On the very day of his release from
prison, his daughter goes there to see
and sympathize with poor servant of
the family; also victim of her moth
er's wickedness, now made incorrigible
because of the wretched opium habit.
BY degrees the whole terrible mystery
is unraveled, and Murray Van Worst
comes to his own again in the securing
OIL SOCldl NlllulCdtlOH wealth., anu Dcy-
ond all, his daughters faith and love.
The story is rather more conventional
than the authors previous one but it is
marked by some touches as swift and
sure as those found in the others which
brought her so prominently before the
reading public.
THE PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT AND
COLOR, a superbly bound and illus
ID 4
containing over 200 engravings and
colored plates is by Edwin D. Bah
bitt, NJ. D., LID. This work is pub
lished at the College of Fine Forces,
now removed from the east to Byrne
block, this city.
DR.. Babbitt claims that scientists
have been working in the dark as to
basic principles, being unable to under
stand the processes of chemical affinity
light. color electric forces. etc. He de-
clares that colors can measure the forces
of the universe. He claims also great
curative power for the system taught in
this volume.
FORT FRAYNE. Captain Charles King.
F. Tennyson Neely
This is a new and very handsome
paper edition of one of Captain Kings
best stories that tneeds no further word
LTplll US ds 10 ltS eKceIe1ce. w men IT
was new, some months ago, 1t was fully
reviewed in, these columns. The pub
lie demanded a new and cheaper edition,
and here it is. 1t will find large sale.
THE GEORGIA PAPERS. BY George
E. Booram. J. S. Ogilvie Publishing
Company.
These papers purport to be humorous
adventures and experiences of young
persons, and if there are ever going to
be born into the earth any considerable
number more like them, a discriminate
ing Herod would be in order
Notes
An unpublished work by the late Capt.
Sir Richard Burton, entitled Human
Sacrifice Among the Sephardim. or East.
ern jews will be issued in a short time
by the New Amsterdam Book company.
l56 Fifth avenue, New York city. The
book was written from material which
Sir Richard collected when consul at
Damascus, but the publication was de-
layed on account of its strong anti
Semitic tendencies. The first part of the
book is devoted to a general study of the
Jew in England, Palestine and else
where; the second deals with the awful
rite of human sacrifice amongst the
Sephardim.
Sir Martin Conway's book on the Spitz-
bergen Alps will be published in this
country by the Messrs. Scribner.
Herr Frederick Won Schutzs Russia
of Today" has been forbidden in Russia
Messrs I. Y. Crowell & Co will issue