The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
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| All especially llIIlSly NOIh Oll LlOPl'
cal colonization" by Alleyne ireland
has been published by the Macmillan
company The author has spent ten
years in the tropics in special study of
his subject, and his book deals with
the three great questions which arise
in regard to colonies in the tropics
How to govern q tropical colony, how
to develop tropical colony, the COM
mercial value of tropical colony. In
regard to the first point, Mr.. Ireland
examines in detail the English crown
colony system, the constitution Of those
British tropical colonies which pos
sess representative institutions; the
French colonial system and the Dutch
government of Java. In regard to the
second point, Mr.. Ireland gives a min
ute account of the labor problem in the
tropics and describes the system of in
dentured labor in force in some tropical
colonies, and the Dutch culture sys-
tenn" the only systems which have sue
ceeded since the abolition Of slavery
in securing an efficient labor supply
for the development of the tropics.
The author enforces his descriptions
by important statistics. In regard to
the commercial value of colonies, Mr..
Ireland, by the use of ten original dia-
grams, presents an exhaustive analysis
Of the question of Trade and the flag,"
and exhibits in a striking man
ner the relative Importance to England
of the British tropical colonies, the Brit
ish non-tropical colonies, and the Unit
ed States as sources Of supply and as
markets for British goods An appen-
dix contains a classified list of about
500 works on British, French, Dutch,
American, German, Portuguese and
Italian colonies, and the author has
provided the work with a cQpious in
dex,
In kansas, its interior and exterior
| life" Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson has
written from personal experience of the
stirring days of the Missouri compro-
mise, the New England Aid company,
the life Of the eastern emigrants who,
under the auspices of Eli Thayer OF
| Worcester, went to the wilds of Mis-
souri, and Kansas, and the political
history of the times. Mrs. Robinson
and her husband, DR.. c. Robinson, were
members of the first Kansas party that
left Boston in 1855, and she kept a diary
in which daily facts, even down to the
weather, are recorded with minuteness
The author is frequently incorrect in
her syntax, her writing is exceedingly
| colloquial, but her courage and forti-
tude are unchallenged. A few pages
| are given to the climate, soil, produc-
| tons, scenery, ETC., of the state, while
the appendix contains several interest
ing letters anent John Brown The
book is in its tenth edition. CThe
Journal Publishing Co., Lawrence
Kansas.
In 'Woodworth and the Coleridges,
with Other Memories Literary and Poll
tical," Ellis Yarnall carries the reader
| back to Lafayettes visit to Philadel-
! nh IN, Cd IL -
Introduction from Prof. Henry Reed
| Wordsworth's chief American disciple
he visited Wordsworth in 1S49, ana he
enjoyed lifelong friendship with Six
John Taylor Coleridge and Lord Cole
ridge. He talked with Gladstone and
John Bright and Charles Francis Ad-
ans in the wake of the civil war. His
recollections of the Tractarian move
ment and his talks with Keble have q
special interest for the churchman
while the student of nineteenth cen
fury politics will find much that Is i'm
portant and many things that are new
in his memories of Sumner, Lincoln and
Gladstone, w. E. Forster, John Stuart
Mill and John Bright. The book can
not escape the charge of occasional gar.
rulity, but is seldom trivial and never
tiresome. (The Macmillan company,
ITO disentangle from the contempor.
airy confusion, in both theory and prac
tice, our educational aims, and to ex
anime these aims in the light of pres
ent and future needs is the object O,
Educational Aims and Educationa
Values" by Paul H. Hanus, assistan
professor in the history and art O.
teaching at Harvard university. The
book is written for laymen as well a.
professional students and teachers
In the first five chapters i
attempts to formulate the aim!
of elementary and secondary ed
scope and methods of an education tina
meets the demands of modern life il
its provisions for the development o.
the individual and in its training fo1
social service. The remainder OF tn,
work deals with the professional train
ing of the college-bred teacher, ant
with the services of John Amos Come
MUS, who, in the 18th century, advo
Gated 10Th century educational reforms
Prof. Hanus writes in a broad spirit o.
culture, and his Interpretation of the
modern meaning and implications o.
education will be found most helpful
macmillan Company
j Rudyard Kiplings schoolboy trio
("Stalky & Coz have made for them.
selves as distinctive a place in his read
ers' hearts as that possessed BY the
| Soldiers Three" who first made hin
| famous They are real, manly, rough
| and-tumble boys-boys whose daring
intrigue and strategy surely foreshadoH
| the resourceful men upon whose Shout
| ders rests the mighty responsibility OF
| England's colonial governments. In
deed, the authors aim seems to be tc
emphasize this point, for one of the
| stories shows these three musketeers'
| of England in after years, when as men
they have taken up ''the white mans
burden" in India. 1t cannot be said
| however, that Mr. Kipling's conception
of boyhood marks a distinct advance
| over thar of the late Thomas Hughes
| and it may reasonably be doubted if
"Stalky q Co." will ever hold the place
| in the affections of the English-speak-
| ing public, or exert the same influence
upon 1t as that classic of public school
life in England, Tom Brown at Rug
by" Doubleday & Mcclure Co.; for
sale by Putnam, Davis & Coz
! In "A Military Belle" Henry Gin
| ton Parkhurst of the Sixteenth Iowa
| infantry, has written Thoroughly CON
| ventional novel in the style of Laura
| Jean Libbey and Mrs. Southworth 1t
bears no relation to life, and is as ex-
/ travagant in conception as it is dull in
manner. OF. Tennyson Neely.)
THE Helpers" by Francis Lynde, is
a mining story of Colorado, in which a
young fastener goes to the dogs,
| strikes it rich, regains his forfeited
honor, and is not unfortunate in his
affair of the heart. There is an I'M
! reality about the earlier portions, and
the Summing partakes of the histri-
onic, but in the mining camps and with
the rough, kindly miners and the
slangy, enterprising, keen and re-
| sourceful young western business man,
/ the author is more at home. The