Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-06

generosity in having given to patriotism
and the Union his own State and -four
of her sisters, and he declared his adj
hesion to her States rights principles OF
1893
This defence of Cook, who was con-
victed and executed, brought its author
to tho attention OF all the people OF Vir-
ginia and led to his being invited Ia
deliver an address at the closing exer-
cises OF our State University, which we
think he did, with his usual success. But
We do not find any mention of it in the
work before us. His tribute TO Jeffer-
son may however, be taken for an APP
propriate substitute. Another distin-
guished speaker, Hon. William J. Bryan,
has recently appeared before our famous
University, and his theme was Thomas
Jefferson.
We do have a splendid address by Mr..
Voorhees, before the two literary soc!e-
ties Of the State University Of Missouri,
June p, 1874, on THE Influence of the
Physical Sciences Upon the Progress Of
Civilization"
On the 18th of April, 1892, he spoke OF
magma Charta" before the annual meet
ing of the State Bar Association Of
South Carolina, at Charleston, and no
doubt recalled to their affectionate re-
membrance their own grand orator, WIZ
liam c. Preston.
On the 18th of May, of the same year,
OS9g, when the people Of Memphis and
the neighborins States met to celebrate
the completion OF the bridge across the
Father of Waters" he discussed for
them 1.-THE Louisiana Purchase and the
Southland OF the Republic"
We have, also, his eulogies on Hen
bricks. Garfield, and others, and yet both
large and handsome volumes contain
only a part OF the lucubrations of his
active and fertile mind.
MIR. Voorhees, was constant and con-
sistent western Democrat, conservative,
yet independent. and on occasion agrees
sive. AS a public man he was fair
minded and conscientious. He was born
i'm Ohio on the 26th OF September, 1927,
but shortly after his parents removed
to Indiana. where he grew up upon his
fathers farm. He was graduated from
Asbury University, Indiana, in lS49, and
admitted to the bar in 1880. He became
very widely known as the tan syca-
more of the Wabash" This sobriquet
may have been sometimes applied to him
derisivey, but it was really compl-
mentary, not only as significant Of his
tall and commanding presence. but as
indicative of the height and magnitude
Of the man morally, Intellectually. and
politically, in the estimation Of his fell
low-citizens.
But to appreciate the force Of the APP
relation, one must bear in mind how
sycamores do grow in that territory and
how fertile Is the valley of the Wabash.
After all, two things are missing In
this large, filal work. One is an index
and the other a view OF the orators
home. How could this last have been
omitted in such a work prepared by his
own children and dedicated to the
memory Of their mother? And yet, here
are a large number of pictures, some Of
which appear even extraneous. We hope
that these two defects will be supplied,
in a subsequent edition, II not In part
of this.
The worst error we have noticed Is
thinking symbol" which may have been
entirely typographical.
TODD'S NEW ASTRONOMY. BY David
7. Todd, NJ. A.. Phi. D., Professor OF
Astronomy and Director Of the Observa-
tory, Amherst College. Cloth, Emo,
500 Pages. Illustrated. Price, $3.50.
American Book Company, New York,
Cincinnati, and Chicago.
the present requirements Of schools and
students for a practical and scientific
textbook in this important and most in
teresting study. OF the authors ability
to write an ideal work on the subject,
which should be at once simple, scientific,
practical, and interesting, there can be no
question. In addition to his former work
in the United States Astronomical Obser-
vatory at Washington, and as director In
the Amherst College Observatory, he Is
well known to the public as leader of two
solar eclipse expeditions. under the aus
pices of the United States Government
one 10 the West Coast Of Africa and one
to Japan-and as leader OF another astro-
nomical expedition TO Japan, organized by
Amherst College.
BY placing more Importance on the
physical than on the mathematical facts
of astronomy, the author has made every
page Of the book deeply interesting TO the
student and general reader. While mathe-
NAUTICAL results are given, the beauty and
interest OF the study are not obscured
by unnecessary mathematical processes
Questions OF universal interest, such as
"Where does the day changer Where
will the sun be overhead at noonY
"Where does the Southern Cross be-
come yisible?" what are meteors?"
what Is the difference between the
sidereal and the solar day2' ETC., receive
special attention in the treatment.
The illustrations are an important
feature Of the book. Many of them are so
devised that they explain at
a glance what pages OF mere description
could not make clear. They include
scenes from the authors own laboratory.
and from his expeditions. diagrams, espe-
cially invented for this book, and repro
auctions from photographs by Barnard
Roberts and others famed In Astronomical
The fine colored plates are
a particular feature OF the book, one OF
these-the frontispiece-being reproduce
tion OF the color effects as seen by the
author during the total eclipse Of 1885 In
Japan.
BY Homer c. Davenport
With an Introduction by Hon. John j.
Ingalls,. Published by the Dewitt Pub
fishing House.
The melancholy man who feels that IKE
has lost its charms for him would DO
we'll 10 buy this book and devote several
hours to its inspection. Unless he were
on the verge OF suicide he could not
check the smile its pages would provoke
The volume, which il large and hand
eapaafv hoopd cautafne a Snleudld cOllec-