Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
.THE WAR FOR THE UNION; or THE
DUEL BETWEEN THE NORTH AND
SOUTH" u. S. A.. 1861. 1861 By Kina.
han CORVALLIS, author Of THE Conquest
Of Mexico aud Peru" New York Wall
Street Daily Investigator, A broadway.
Price, 81.
In this volume the author has given
poetical panorama, historical and
descriptive, of our country. As an
introductory is the ''Song Of America
and Columbus in which the deeds
Of the bold mariner who discovered the
New World are appropriately told in
pleasing verse;, Also, an Introductory
reference to the cordial rotations be.
tween England and the United States,
in poem, ''Victoria's Reign, an
American Tribute TO the Queen Of
England" Then comes the story Of
our Civil War, told in sympathetic
verse that mingles the dread roar OF
BATTLE tine cries OF the wounded and
dying, and the walls Of stricken ones
over their lost dead with the wild
reioicings OF victory, and pans OF
praise at the return Of peace. The latter
is pictured by poems on 1.-THE Union
Forever" and MAY God Preserve Our
Splendid Heritage.
The production is most clever
throughout, and very interesting. The
verse is strong and heroic sympathetic
and triumphant; the recital is his
torically accurate, and the subjects
thoroughly treated.
Received of the publishers.
"THE CARpETBAGGER." By Opie Read
and Frank Pixley. illustrated from life.
Chicago: Laird Il Lee. Price. 81.
Originally 1.-THE Carpetbagger" was
| four-act comedy, which for thirty
| weeks of the season Of 1889 had
| successful run under the management
of Tim Murphy 1t was put in book
| form in response to tho urgent requests
of many who had enjoyed the story as
presented on the stage.
AS its name implies, THE Carpet
Dagger" relates to Southern com.
m6nity in reconstruction days. But it
is purely fanciful, in all except the
recital OF the conditions that prevailed
at the beginning. 1t brings to view
the typical earpetbsg governor and car
| petbag administration. corrupt to the
core, and forming, with robber Leg
islature. an engine of tyranny and
theft, Altogether, a fitting picture OF
the time 10 the history Of the South
when, as the oEening chapter of the
book so tritely states: Politics was
comic opera and craftsmanship
| farce
Gov. Melville Cranco of Mississippi,
tho leading character In "The Carpet
bagger,o was genius in his line, but
he radically changed. Through the
gracious influence of a lovely Southern
woman, he became an honest man. lie
| gave back to the State all that he had
stolen. and more. He refused to sane.
tion thieyish grabs by the Legislature,
and he made possible an honest elec'
tion by which he was defeated. whom
by cheating and the use of force by the
military he could have had himself and
the entire thievish administration
| counted in. And, as he is portrayed
during the process of the reformation,
he shines forth as a most admirable
character, brave as lion, and with u
homely humor that smiles as brightly
as his engaging face from the numer'
ous illustrations with which the vol
ume is embellished
In Red Rock" Mr.. Thomas Nelson
Page has given us q faithful pen pic
ture of the Southern carpetbagger rs
he was, in all his moral hideousnoss.
In THE Carpetbaggef, Mr.. Read and
Mr., Pixley have pleasingly shown him
as he might have been, by mighty
stretch OF the Imagination. But it is
an interesting story, from end to end.
Received of the publishers.
I IA A ann.
mary of the worlds news and progress.
Edited by Alfred s. johnson. Phi. D;
Second quarter. 1890. 256 PIP. illustrated
| with 30 portraits and 10 maps, diagrams
and views si.50a year. Boston, Mass. I;
Current History Co., Ia Beacon street.
| The present number of this unique
duplication calls for renewed com
mendation OF its accuracy, and useful
ness for reference, Nothing of i'm
portance in the doings of today in any
part Of the. world escapes its notice ;
4 and everything is recorded with IAN
admirable clearness of style and a
righteousness of treatment that reveals
nothing. of the spirit Of the political
or religious bigot. The number opens
| With remarkable article on Wireless
Tolegraphy, in which the Marconi
system and other systems Of wireless
communication are described in plain
and simple English; the place of the
achievement in the history of science
indicated, and its practical utilities
and possibilities fully shown. Numer-
Gus diagrams Of apparatus are given,
making the whole subject perfectly
clear, to the ordinary reader. This
article alone is worth more than the
price of the book.
Other topics fully treated are the
Issues of the Spanish War;" aeon
ference at The Hague" samoan
Difficulty" Alaskan Boundary
Dreyfus Affair, -" Far Eastern Prob
iein," "Transvaal Crisls.'' "vene.
zuelan Boundary, Recent Strikes,
Liquid Air." "Color Photography,
Trust Problem,'' Biographies o.
prominent people, and hundreds Of