The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-01-13

"fatet CT HUE lame girl, aanG where sht
could be educated. About the two MttIe girls
their lives, and happenings, the story re-
wolves. We shall not attempt to tell the story
but we guarantee every lover of innecen:
child ways and child life who reads the chap.
tiers "a rich treat. 1t abounds in pleasing
novelties and has pathos that touches til,
soul. A second volume from the same pub
lishers is a series of twelve sketches by
Blanche Wilder which appeared originally il
he Outlook The plan IS to shnw to vnnne
readers the direct descent of English poetry
from Chaucer to Tennyson. The other poets
treated of are Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
Dryden, Pope, Goldsmith Burns, Scott Byron,
and Wordsworth. These publishers have
long catered to the educational, the best and
the latest in scientific literature and in many
OF their books of this year reached for wider
class of>readers, and have sent out books so
markedly excellent as to deserve success.
(Boston: CHM co.,
Personal "reminiscences of Anti-S1avery
and Other Reforms and Reformers''-By
Aaron M. Powell. tome weeks ago We noticed
Iris volume among Books Received" 1t is
made up OF series of sketches of the great
REFORMS of the century, with pleasing remi-
nlscences of the man and women who were
leaders. The great changes in public opinion
are best seen in tho fact that the leading re-
formers of the first half of the century, who
we're wholly condemned by the public, and
their very names held In reproach are today
recorded IN the places OF highest honor To-
DAY we are erecting monuments Of gratitude
IN the hearts Of a new generation, because
such leaders as Garrison, Phillips, Bailey
sumner. Buffum. Stanton, Osborne, Lucretia
Mott. Whittier, Coffin, Douglass, Lucy Stone,
Nathaniel Rogers, Valentine Nicholson,
and scores like them. sacrificed all
t OF personal ease and popularity in
the:c day to defend the right. The time is
coming when Inherited prejudices have van
ished; they will be lifted still higher on the
rolls OF honor in the Nations history, for
they builded even better than they knew, or
dreamed of. Fifty years ago, when these old
worthless were fighting the battles OF the
Wronged and oppressed, slavery dominated
the Nation, North and South, and no man
could see hope for it's overthrow. Justice
seemed blind and the Nation parayzed under
the power of slavery. But undaunted by
mobs or the power of unjust laws they la
Dored on and power higher than man guided
I mem to the solution. The story by Mr. Powell
is in the merest outline, running dairy but
1t calls attention to the many great names of
actors OF the time. Mr.. Powell was among
the younger class Of men who lived for half
MS lifetime after the great event of emanci-
patlon, and to take an active part in all the
reforms Of tie day. His work was mainly
III the East and across the Atlantic, and few
names of the Western workers in the same
fields are mentioned. Older readers and the
descendants of pioneer reformers will enjoy
thls modest, pleasing little book. which is pub
llshed by Anna Rice Powell, Planfield, N J.
Olckens's Tale of Two Cities. Edited for
SCHOOLS by Ella Boyce Kirke Eclectic School
1'ead'ngs) Cloth, 12mo, 304 pages Price, 50
CENTS American Book Company, New York. Gin
clnnat and Chicago. This tale of the French
revolution OF 1892, the scene of which is laid in
London and Paris. is one of Dickens's most cele-
GRATED works. The story is here presented inst
as 1t was first written with the exception of few
paragraphs and chapters noG necessary to the
continuity of the narrative. The book is we'll
adapted for schools and home reading not only |
because of its literary merit but because of the
authentic historical information it contains.
First Steps with American and British Authors
Revised and Enlarged Edition. By Albert
Blaisdell Cloth, 12mo, 449 pages. Price, 80 cents
American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati
and Chicago. systematic study of the texts of
standard English authors is now very generally
considered necessary part of tie regular high
school course. Before undertaking. how YER, the
more formal study of any author. pupils should
have thorough drill on some representative Sc
lection from his writings. This book aims to
provide students with judlcous and methodica,
Introduction to the standard English texts
+ * *
Our Country in Poem and Prose, Arranged
Tor collateral and supplementary reading by
Eleanor A. Persons, Teacher of History. Yonkers
Public Schools. Cloth, I2mo. 2O4 pages. illustra-
tea. Price 81 cents. American Book COMPANY,
view York. Cincinnati and Chicago. This is
cnolce collection of patriotic pieces gathered to-
gather from different sources, making a volume Of
rare interest and value. The book inclu les the
pest thlEgs said or written about our country by
long line OF authors, poets, patriots, and states
men from the colonial period to the present time.
While we are teaching the three RS in our schools
we should not forget 10 teach lessons of patriot
ism and devotion to duty.
In musical language throughout which the sligh+
Favor Of the foreign tongue will perhaps be de-
tected Zitkala Sa writes her impressions of an
Indian Chiidhood.'' in the January Atlantic.
We are taken into the weather stained wigwam,
hear the weird legends, learn the mysteries Of
beadwork and coffee-makng. and feel the joys,
fears and sorrows of an Indian child. 1t is told
with charming directness and naivete.
Colby. M. A. Professor of Economics, New York
University. Halt leather, 12mo, 61O pages. Price
$3.50. American Book Company, New York, Gin
cinnati, and Chicago. These outlines of General
History are designed primarily tor use asa text
book in high schools and college preparatory
schools. In it's preparation the author has had in
mind the wants of that largely increasing class OF
students who intend to specialize in some branch
If vi f-Iu ,bo1 Oh
good general idea of the whole subject. In plan,
scope, and narrative, the book is we'll adapted for
this purpose. It presents in admirable form and
style such a conspectus of the history of the
whole world as admirably adapts it for the Use of
special students and of general readers, well as
for class-book. The special feature which die
tinguishes the book most is the interesting and
attractive style in which it is written, the story
from beginning to colophon beng told simply and
clearly and yet in most fascinating manner.