The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-02

and the pith of the debates 1t Is a de-
Hghtful study in comparative social
science, and furnishes material for even
wider studies and deductions than are
contained in this work.
The Importance of the louisiana pur-
chase in changing the destiny of the ma
ton IS fully recognized, as well as the
vast influence of the forming West upon
national character and policy Universal
suffrage came about by the competition
of the new states, who sought to make
the ballot an eaflurement to win the
foreign settler. The competition soon
made 1t national. -
The early significance Of individualism
Is eXemplified, and the more recent al
truistic tendency of Western states is
pointed out.
AS. democracy was necessity from the
conditions of free labor, and won it's bat
ties everywhere because conditions Of
production made the laborer an object Of
Importance. 80 democracy can only per-
ish when the conditions of free white
labor are degraded, and in the Judgment
of many the interest Of white labor is
bound up with all others, but so long as
labor is given it's adequate reward and
remains induStrially free, there need be
no fear but that it will remain politically
free.
Questions of education and taxation are
treated, but of special significance is the
study on the growth of the judicial sys-
TENS, both state and national. The status
of the free negro. and his influence upon
progress and legislation before the aboii-
ton of slavery is a point of view often
lost sight of. but not neglected by Mr.
Thorpe. The spirit and method of the
book belong to the cycle of sociological
influence, and is so we'll worth while in
its performance that it can scarcely be
mastered by that body of political leaders
who seek to understand and help their
country, rather than simply to profit by
her service
Mrs. DeIany's Correspondence.
Autobiography and Correspondence of
Mrs. Delany." edited by Sarah
Chauncey Woolsey. Little, Brown &
RRo oo, b ssd 81 For sale by the St. Paul
The reprint of Mrs Delany's letters re-
calls one of the most remarkable women
of the last century. and in this work Is a
very complete portraiture of life and
manners in England at the very close Of
the old world, and before the dawn of
the new age Of steam and science.
woman who counted among her
friends the most illustrious persons of
her day because she was Granville, and
because she had great charms of mind
and person, has a still greater interest
since she was versatile enough to have
been the friend of John Wesley and of
Dean Swift, the confidential niece of Lord
Lansdowne and the patron of both Han
del and Hogarth. They criticised the
Messiah" in her day, and were not sure
1t was quite good enough for London.
They also put up a monument of Shake
Speare IN Westminster, and thought that
poet well enough to be rescued from OBJ
livion
The ladies, all in yellows. and sapphires
puppies and crimsons, with gold and sill
Yer trimmings, to be met by gallants
with powdered wigs and knee breaches
set Off by dazzling waistcoats between.
The authoress herself was married first
by her relatives to beastly old squire
and she naiyely tells us how much she
mated him, and yet how proper she al
ways was; the second time she married
by her own choice, but alas twenty years
later, DR.. Delany, an English clergyman,
In whose companionsbip her love of let
tiers, art and music make an enlivening
| mosaic for the decencies of the church.
1t is an entertaining old story, and we
learn much besides. For instance a
nobleman could be buried for a $780, vault
and all, and painting Of Rembrandt Is
sold at auction for a $3.50. Such books are
more luminous than most histories, and
| this Is classic work of its kind.
"The Perfect Wagnerfte.v
The Perfect Wagnerite," Bernard Shaw
herbert s. Stone & Co.. Chicago and
New York. For sale by the ST Paul
Book and Stationery company
lie was a rank Philistine who once
smartly affirmed: 'Wagner's music, vol
| know. Is really much better than il
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