The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-24
DID 4. CABOT LODGE DO THIS?
SAID TO HAVE MIsAPPLIED
LOWELL, GARBLED BACON

Harold Frederic's "The Deserter"
Has Two Stories of the Civil War
margaret sydney's ga Little
Maid of Concord Town''-Julia
Nagruder's Sunday School Story,
ga Labor of Love-"
Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
BOSTON, April 21.-That the junior
senator from Massachusetts should be
convicted by his colleagues Of mis-
applying a quotation from Lowell, and
by the Boston newspapers Of garbling
Bacon in almost the same breath. sur
prises nobody familiar with the ways
into which Mr. Lodge has fallen since
the early. happy days when he edited
Jack the Giant Killer" and "Blue-
beard" for the public schools. and
wrote biographies of Hamilton. and
Webster. and George Washington, for
the American Statesman series.
Then he desired to be the scholar in
politics. but now he is rather the poll
tician in letters. interpolating his dis
sertations on the past with hints and
references intended for the allurement
Of the average voter of Massachusetts,,
whom it pleases him to regard as very
simple, and possibly venal. BY an
cestry and by education, he was en-
titled, from the very outset, to. the
support of the best blood and the best
minds within the Republican party,
and calmly certain of obtaining it, his
efforts, from that early canvass during
which 1t was very audibly whispered
that the money Of his committee sup
ported a club Of young "Mugwumps,"
have been concentrated in the effort
to dlsintegrate the Democratic vote.
Again and again, in his STORY Of the
Revolution" now publishing in Scrib-
ner's, does he appeal to that section of
the naturalized voters which is more
American than the Adamses and the
Winthrops, and again and again does
he insinuate that the only legitimate
descendant Of the patriot of '76 is the
Republican, the Massachusetts Repub-
lican Of 1898.
Having but two eyes, and keeping
one upon the voter and one upon his
subject, his authorities are unavoid-
ably unmatched, and it is but three
months since he misquoted "Chevy
Chase" descended to the lower depth
Of borrowing a phrase from the foot
ball column to describe Howe as at
plunged into the neither darkness of
advertisements to say Give him
(Washington> men who would fight
and he would do the rest After that,
Massachusetts is thankful if his liter
airy crimes are no darker than the mis-
representation Of two reputable ar-
thors.
Mr.. Harold Frederic's '"The Desert
err" containing two stories Of the Civil
war, and two of the Wars Of the
Roses will be ready next week, and
is to be- a very pretty book with pic
lures by Mr.. Merrill and Mr.. Sand
ham, but one rather grudges it's latter
half to the children, knowing that it
is the result. Of studies made in the
comparative leisure Of former years
when the author hoped to write a
novel with the English civil conflict
for it's background. Three other war
like story books are in preparation by
Mr.. Frederick's publisher, the Lothrop
company. The first, "Cian of the
Chariots," by Mr.. w. H. Babcock, Of
the patent office, is tale of the period
between the Roman : occupation of
England and the time when, "the
heather Of the Northern sea- fell upon
the land. The second, "a Little Maid
of Concord Town. by Margaret sgd
ney, has a heroine so wonderfully wise
as to the tendencies of her time as to
tempt one to search for her like in the
modern Concord, in order to know eX-
actly what may come of the present
state Of affairs; the third can Island
Heroine" by Miss Mary B. Sleeght, is
story of the British occupation of
Long Island Miss Julia Magruder will
make an essay in a new field with q
Sunday school story called Labor of
Love-" and this with "Bilberry Boys
and Girls by Sophie May, and "a
Little New England Maid,'' by Mrs.
Kate Launatt Woods, will also bear
the Lothrop Company's Imprint
Hitherto the publication Of the books
of colored plates and simple verses
and stories intended especially for
small children has been monopolized
by New York, but the Lothrop company
will this year venture upon issuing
four Of the pretty volumes; "A Dozen
Dainty Darlings and Their Doings," by
Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt, the editor of
Little Folks" Children ALL" by Mr..
f1bridge S. Brooks; Little Lads and
Lasses," by Mrs. Florence Howe Hall,
and Happy Little People," by Mrs.
Mary S. Brine. Books of this class
.fascinate the feminine mind at any
age, exercising the same spell as paper
dolls, with which many a grandmother