The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-09
BOOKS o R READING.

OUTLINES OF RURAL HYGIENE. by
! Harvey B Bashmore, M. D. Illus
trated. Price, Is cents. Published
by F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia.
This is a carefully prepared book
let intended to emphasize the i'm
portance of observing sanitary rules
in the country as we'll as in the town.
The first four chapters treat of the
following subjects "Water Supply,
"Waste Disposal" 1.-The Soil," and
Calculations" This book deserves
a wide reading among country resi-
dents, while for the country physi-
clan it is Indispensable
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. By j.
B. McBryde. illustrated. Price rs
cents. Published by B. f. John
son Publishing Co , Richmond, Va.
This is the work Of d Virginian,
and is perhaps the best text book on
agriculture that has yet been issued
in the South, though we do 10 not
think it equal to p Of L. II. Bailey's
''Principles of Agriculture" The
problems and experiments are valu.
able features, and might we'll be ex-
tended. We wish the volume we're
more fully illustrated. All things
considered, Prof. MoBryde has done
his work we'll, and we hope that his
book will have a wide circulation.
SToNEwALL JACKSON. By Carl Hovey.
D~S0@ 6E ann&C DT1hITahn6 NV
Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.
This is another of the series of
"Beacon Biographies, giving briefly
the life stories of famous Americans.
We do not think that Mr.. Hovey
has done his work so we'll as did
Prof. Trent in his life of Lee, in the
same series but this we could hardly
have expected. There is at least
nothing dull in Mr.. Hovey's life of
the great uncommon "StOne wall"
Some of the anecdotes are new to us.
In the first few pages of the book the
author tells one which throws some
light upon Jackson's character. We
quote:
Gwen at school in Virginia, he
had preferred the substance to the
show or credit of Il performance,
would go ahead only SO fast as he
could really, and said, when called
upon to recite, I haven't got to that
lesson yet, but l know this one,
meaning day before yesterdays"
There is not evident in this volume
the same hearty admiration and
sympathy for the subject that marks
Trent s Robert E. Lee )" but after
all is said, it remains true that Mr..
Hovey gives the reader a vivid
picture of Thomas Jonathan Jackson
as a farm boy, West Point cadet,
private soldier, college teacher, army
commander.
UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIoG
PLY. By Booker 7. Washington.
Price, 81 50. Published by Double
day, Page & Co, New York.
No other book by d negro has I'VE
received such a favorable reception,
both in the South and in the North,
as has this story of the life and
struggles Of the negro educator,
Booker T. Washington. This, we
believe, is because it is the broadcast,
most thoroughly sane work of it's
kind that America has ever ha6 from
a negro mind. It's author under
stands the situation he realizes and
acknowledges the folly of the negro
demand for social and political
equality with the Southern white
man. So By his earnest work in up
lifting his WI race, at the same
time maintaining friendly relations
with the white people of the South,
Booker Washington has won for
himself and for his great school at
Tuskegee, Ala the kindly feelings
of all classes and conditions of men.
Yet If this volume were only the
bare recorl of personal struggles,
triumphs o. defeats, t would not in
terest us. But it is more than this
it IS net the story o. an individual,
but rather the story Of c0nIitiOns
TWENT Y YEARS OF S