The Portland daily press., 1899-04-13

which Is very original in plot, Is dark
gloomy and hopeless.
Captain Black shows us how acute
knavs can be. and yet how surely vilIainy
comes to justice In the long run, and
The Colonel's Desk Is all about very
pretty girl, her good uncle. and two young
men, . scamp and a gentleman, how one
came to grief, while with the other virtue
and the pretty girl were his reward.
Diet in Illness and Convalescence, by
Alice WORTH aton Winthrop New York:
Harper q Brothers; Portland: Loring,
short g. Harmony is valuable work
which covers much more ground than its
title denotes. 1t Is not merely cook
book for invalids, but.it treats OF indigss-
ton, its causes, its cure, and Its processes
of arti ficial digestion by means of pan
creatic fsrments and pepsiu ;of the effects
of various foods. drinks, stimuiants, etc.
and of the special diet for numerous dis
eases, with the reasonr for adopting the
regimen indicated. There are also re.
marks regarding longevity, corpulency,
colds, neuralgia, In fact nearly all the Ills
to which flesh Is heir.
The recipes for dishes suited to invalids
might tempt an epicure, and various
plates show how daintily they may be
served.
The book is certainly one which no
family should be without, and the
writer's experience at Montauk Point
during the months Of August and Sep
TENDER Of last year has been supplemented
by valuable information obtained from
surgeons and nurses at that hospital
camp, where opportunities for studying
typhoid and malarial fever were album
dant.
A very rare and unusual book is Mr.
Ira Seymour Dodd's The Song Of the
RappHhapnock. 1t Is q small volume of
sketches of the Civil War, dedicated by
the writer
"To my Comrades,
The Living and the Dead"
The Song OF the Rsppahaunock Is the
vsnomous buzz and whistling OF bullets,
and the ring o; the bursting shells. So
perfect and vivid transcript is given of
those days of horror that one reads with
fearful eyes and beating heart. The
work is intensely personal, and every tone
comes, as 1t were. from the Spirit of Bat
tie. The passionate power and pathos of
these pages Ia most appealing.
The author speaks best for himself in the
preface. He says: "What Is herein writ
ten was befor, and for the most part CO
pletsd before the Spanish war cloud was
more than distant and doubtful threat.
but out Of its passing storm rain
bow arch has risen. fairer and sweeter
than even the sunshine Of victory to the
eyes of those who stood in opposing ranks
as foemen thirty years ago. We learned.
not hatred. but profound respect for each
other ON those grimly fought fields OF
Civil Strife. During these years Of retro
spect and reflection the respect has been
ripening into a warmer feeling, and now
our hearts swell with deep and solemn
aukfulness for the open evidence of our
perfect welding into the Mighty Nation,
under whose old flag men of the South
stand Joined with men of the Norh in
invincible brotherhood"
wonder how many of the young men
and women of today realize, or have ever
thought Of the death harvest Of cur civil
war, which, In tattie alone. to say moth
ing of those who died of disease and ex
haustion, reached the awful figure of two
hundred thousand. "for," adds the writ
er, 1--WE know we'll that 1t was not the
easily spared who gave their lives; we
know that the dreadful vintage of our
battlefields was rich with the blood OF
the young. the bright, the brave, the
promising"
Mr.. Dodd speaks from and Of his own
personal experience, and every word comes
with telling forcs. portland; Lcring,
Short s. Harmony
Mr.. Edmund James Carpenters work,
America In Hawaii. Is deserving Of some
thing better than mere newspaper
notice, which can hardly do more than
call attention to the varied interest and
excellence of a very timely volume.
1t is a full and compact history of the
United States in the Hawaiian Islands
The author admits that he was in SYM
pathy with the movement in the Islands
and this country. which ended in annexa
ton but he also declares that he has SEN
deavored to eliminate all partisanship"
from his narrative, which is not an easy
thing to do.
Mr.. Carpenter first gives sketch of
primitive Hawaii, and later OF the COM
ing of the missionaries. In 1890 began
diplomatic relations with the United
States, after which occurred the Paulst
episode; l. g., the arrival at Honolulu of
the British frigate Cary sfort, commanded
by Captain Lord George Paulet. and the
remarkable proceedings which followed.
The chapters which follow treat of for