The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-05
BUTTE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Works on History, Biography
and Travel.
IN REVIEW AND CRITICISM
Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord
Macaulay" a Model of Literary BIZ
ography-One of the Classics
of the Language.

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felt that we were speaking of book
that would long remain the most salts
factory treatise on the subject. But the
better book has already made it's ap-
pearance. We take back nothing of the
eulogistic notice we gave to the book Of
last year. 1t is scholarly, original and
decidedly readable. But we have to no.
tice to-day a work that is more phil
osophical and being written from a
different standpoint, is even more an
authoritative work than that of our
cultured senator.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan is not I'M
known to literature. His Life and
| Letters of Lord Macaulay' is model
| of literary biography and one of the
| classics of the language. AS an his
| torian he holds a high place among liv-
| ing writer's. In his American Revou-
| ton he has given the results of most
| careful and honest research, and has
presented his views in the impartial
| manner that we expect of judge, as
| well as in the fascinating style of a
polished writer. The first volume only
| of his work has SO far appeared, and
| covers the period from 1866 to the evac-
| uation of Boston in 1176. The succeeding
! volumes will be anXiously looked for.
| The thorough student WILL of course
study all the literature of the subject
| But one whose time is limited will OBJ
| tain a very satisfactory idea of con-
| tlict, whose effect for good was only less
on the mother country than it was on
our own, from careful perusal of The
American Revolution" by George Otto
| Trevelyan, and of The Story of the
nv
At first thought it might seem that an
amount of literature has been produced
respecting England's recent campaigns
in the Soudan out of all proportion to
the Importance of the subject Such an
opinion, however, is based on very
inadequate conception of the signiti-
canoe of the events that are taking
place there. The latest treatise is
With Kitchener to Khartoum,' by G.
w. Stevens. OF this book we can that
that what Mr.. Stevens lacks in thor
oughness of knowledge of statesman
ship or understanding military science,
he more than makes up in his powers of
description and his brilliant picturng
of the ideas he expresses.
Paul Eve Stevenson in his by Way
of Cape Horn: -Four Months on a Yam
kee Clipper pleasantly recounts the
somewhat monotonous events of a
lengthy sea voyage, and makes some
severe criticisms on the way our sea-
men are treated and the manner in
which the laws uphold a tyrannical
captain.
A readable account of a voyage along
those shores of the Levant that are
characterized by beauty of scenery and
their great contribution to literature is
"A Cruise Under the Crescent" by
Charles Warren Stoddard. Another
book of travel in the light and attract
hal ta wit 20
ideal book for summer reading is zone
Way Round the World" by Delight
Sweetser.
William l.. Terhune has given us a
volume devoted to a general account
of travel on the continent called My
Friend the Captain; or, Two Yankees in
Europe
A country of Europe which is too Of
ten considered by the average reader
to be a fiat and monotonous expanse,
but which is in reality a land Astounding
in picturesque variety and inhabited by
liberty-loving people, is described by
Mrs. Alec Tweedle in Through Fin
land in Carts"
A volume published by the United
States congress and containing MEM
orial Addresses" is devoted to each of
the following deceased congressman:
Joseph H. Earle, James z. George, Will
lam S. Holman, Seth L. Milliken and
Ashley b. Wright.
Map of Alaska" issued by the
United States geological survey, has
been folded so as to be bound in a con-
veniently sized volume and may be
drawn for home use by our patrons.
Albert Van Dams AN Englishman
in Paris is a book that at one time
created a great sensation by purporting
to reveal the inside workings of many
French political schemes.
c icfo
have of John Bright, the great Quaker
political orator of England, is that by
G. A. Vince.
An important subject which has been
developed by Alethea Wel with much
thoroughness, is the history of the
house of Savoy. Her two volume "Ro-
nance of the House of Savoy" recounts
at length the great influence the family
has had on the history of Europe. 1t is
an interesting and valuable record, de-
spite the dryness of the authors style.
The strained relations that exist be-
tween the two powers that are rivals
for the control of central Asia are
brought to our mind by the conflicts
that take place on the boundary of
British India. The prospects of the i'm
pending conflict are affected by the re-
lations that the two nations have with
their near neighbors, and Indian From
tier Warfare" by G. ]. Younghusband,
is an important contribution to our I'M
derstanding of England's strength and
weakness.
Three volumes of the New Irish Ii
brary deal with subjects of irish his
tory during the contest between the
houses of Stuart and Orange. These
volumes are THE Patriot Parliament CT
1883. with its Statutes, Votes and Pro-
ceedings,' by Thomas Davis; "Owen
Roe O'Neill,' by J. F. Taylor, and the
Life of Patrick Sarsfied," by John
Todhunter.
An interesting study is Southern
Sidelights: a Picture of Social and
Economic Life in the South, Genera
ton before the War" by Edward Ingle
Two valuable additions have of late
been made to the Story of the Nations
series. These are THE Story of Aus
ira, by Sidney Whitman and J. r.
Mcllraith, and the STORY of the People
or England in the Nineteenth Century"
by Justin Mccarthy In reference to
the latter book we will say that it is
very rarely that we come upon so sat
1sfactory piece of historical workman