Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-11
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! THE SECRET OF ACHIEVEMENT. Ry
Orison SWEET Marden, author Of Push
Ing TO the Front" Illustrated with por.
traits Of eminent persons. New York
| and Boston: Thomas Y. CroweI & Co.
Cloth. PIP. 372. Price $3.50.
The order in which the author has
placed the portraits Of his eminent per-
sons is an achievement In itself. The
frontispiece is Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Then come John Wanamaker. Gladstone.
Lincoln Cough, James Watt. Prescott,
Won Moltke. Washington dhe ninth.
Peter Cooper. Carlyle. Napoleon. L. s.
Grant, John G. Whittier, DR.. Sam John
son, and Dwight L. Moody.
a few years ago John Wanamaker was
known only to a goodly part Of the mer-
camille world as an extensive and sue
cessful business organizer. Then he be-
came widely known in the political
world. when he secured a place in the
Presidents Cabinet, by going around and
shaking certain private and corporate
plum-trees. to the tune OF $4,000. which
he caused 10 be contributed TO the fund
OF the campaign which resulted in the
election Of his candidate 10 the presiden-
cy. Perhaps he made a pretty good POST
master-General, and perhaps most, II not
all, Of those who yielded up their pums
temporarily for the nations good were
reimbursed. Nowadays it IS said that Mr..
Wanamaker is going. with a sharp stick,
for United States Senator Quay. Of Penn
sylvana, who is charged with having
shaken the plum-trees" Of that State for
his own selfish and corrupt purposes.
our author propOunds Mr.. Wanamaker
az a worthy and eminent" exemplar. and
pays him several high compliments in
different parts of his work. Wishing TO
collate all these notices, we tried TO avail
ourselves OF an apparently copious index
when To- and behold! Honest John" was
not I'm the index.
Still, the lessons which our author seeks
10 inculcate are true end valuable-viz..
that the highest achievement is that
which results in noble manhood and wo-
manhood; that there is something greater
than wealth. grander than fame; and
that character is the only success"
The work is remarkable for the number
OF its apt and excellent quotations; its
wise saws and modern instances" in
tended to enforce what the author wishes
to impress. So, that in its sixteen chap
tiers, from Sunshine I'm Life" to Making
the Most of Home" there is a vast deal
of good reading. not only from the author
himself, but from great variety OF
sources.
VIA LUCIS; A NOVEL. By Kassandra
Vivaria. With Portrait OF the Author. |
New York: George III. Richmond a. Son. |
1895.
To those holding the view that life Is at |
best a sad affair, and wishing food for
this thought, Via Lucis. a story OF Italian |
life, is, indeed. a sweet morsel.
Arduina d. Ereila, the principal charac- |
ter, has the misfortune, when quite a /
young child. to lose her mother and 10 |
have spared 10 her father who is |
brute. AT the age OF l6 she is sent to a |
convent and concelves the notion OF be-
coming a nun, and In this she Is en-
outraged by her confessor. who proves
n every way her evil genius. After a
year she goes with friends to the water
ng-place, Trasso, where she meets Pros
zen Onofrlo, an officer OF the Italian navy.
they fall desperately in love with each
,ther, but. clinslng 10 her morbid idea OF
luty, she refuses TO marry. and returns
o the convent, where she spends about
hree miserable years. Just before the
irle for her TO take her final vows the
human side asserts itself. and she does
he most sensible thing recorded in the
tory-quits the convent and fiees TO the
Iouss OF her old nurse.
Aftex THEA years Qnefrles Gho has