The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-04-27
LITERARY.

Dichtung in funf, AufzuEen, Won Adolf
,Milbrandt, edited with introduction. and
Notes ~ Theodore Hencksls, Mqr5en Pro
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York, Cincinnati and Chicago Wibrandt
Is today the ACCOMPLISHED dramatist of the
among the classic authors since the time
of Goethe. Der Meister Won Palmyra, if
the few real masterpieces of modern Ger
man literature and cannot fail to prove
most enjoyable reading.
Madame Therese By Erckman- Chatrain
Edited for school use. by c. Fontaine,
BIZ, Id, Director of Romance Language
Instruction in the High Schools of Wash
ington, 2: c. Cloth. 12mo, 191 pages, with
Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago.
In this new edition of Madame Therese the
text has been reduced about Il third. and
especially adapted for class room work.
formation needed for a thorough compre
hension Of the text when used in cciinec-'
ton with the vocabulary; This book is one
by the Committee of Twelve Of the Modern
Language Association of America. as a
preparation for college. The style is sim
Pile and easy
Manual of the Constitution of the
United States" By Israel Ward Andrews,
D: D., IL. D. Revised by Homer Morris,
~ ~, B., of the Cincinnati Bar; Cloth, 12mo,
York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. For TWEEN
ty-fve years Andrews Manual of the Con
stitution has been one of the leading works
on the subject. and we are glad to see
that in this edition a standard text book
has been thoroughly revised and brought
up to date in all particulars. The original
publication grew out of the authors own
necessity for a concise yet thorough and
practical treatise, and in the revision the
utmost care has been taken to keep to the
eludes the recent interpretations of the
Constitution by the Courts, and the impor-
tant statutes calculated to produce per
m naaent Roliitlcal erect. In ADDITION, such
the Interstate Commerce Commission, the
Law Against Trusts. and the Civil Service
Go a are fully treated both as to
poets. An appendix gives. among other
things, the Constitution and the Declaration
OF 5ndependence, while a complete Index
topic. .ssT.~t : :.
A Womans Life Work.-This is a story
OF wonderful life. The author was an
her underground railroad work assisted
hundreds of slaves to escape from bondage
During the war she spent about two years
Through her efforts more than 5000 Union
soldiers were liberated. She accomplish
ed a great work in providing for the Freed
men of Kansas after the close of the war.
She was the founder Of the state public
school at Coldwater. Mich. an Institution
which was the first of it's kind in t..
World The Prince of Wales having heard
that it was the outgrowth of woman's
plan and work, wrote to this country TO
md out if such were really the fact ="
Industrial School for Girls at Adrian,
Mich, almost utterly owes it's first exist
ence. and especially it's name. to her eff
forts. Haviland Academy. at Haviand.
Kansas, was named in her nonor. as also
the the town in which it is located. Her whole
HE has been one of cheerful self-denial for
| the good of others: At the Worlds FAT
she .. WAS introduced by President Palmer
as ''The Mother of Philanthropy" and we'll
she she, deserves ie. the title. Her experience as
i told IN this book will be read with thrill
ing interest. 1t is a plain simple narratiyn
Of o. her very busy. useful life but of more
hf a1a interest than fiction. Many
tath re,r Aunt mt Lama is now in her nine
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