The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-11-08
IN THE FOREST.

IN THE FOREST.
In the Forest. BY Macmillan Foster.
$l.5O New York: Doubleday, Page &
the Eerszt is il
value. This volume contains stories Of
wood life, wherein the stately deer, the
bruin speak from the heart Of the Wiids.
Xirile and significant speech 81 nature
Mr.: Foster has made a distinct depart
ure from the ordinary stories Of forest
!ife., and unlike Kipling's Jungle Stor-
ance with the imperious law of nature
and do not talk. s,,'.. : :
He plays upon. your sympathies by elo-
ton, and in the story of Legs the
coyote transported from his western hab-
itat to the east to furnish in the chase
dogs, ones. sympathy goes out spontane-
ously to this poor beast struggling at
times against hunger and trusting to his
Being torn to pieces by the ' murde srSIs
pack I; Of hounds at his heels. Time after
flme ne Se en ris his tormentors but his
it did we find ourselves Wishing him bet
Ter luck. Spe, ID was now his only hope"
e fe fhg bd to the bhb1ttog vas st p
hope. but shortlived indeed. They were
on MIN anh4 anew ewa No use. He must turn
s Iiu HSnt, ana AGAINST what odds. Over
down the slope. Legs in the midst of
the baying hounds, was fighting but
M p,TieG to the sna last And when the pack
wonders when the brutality of man still
ttnding pleasure and recreation in the
t t6eta otca Of beasts snd vii depart
pathy, While his human tormentors merit
nothing PHI but PVT aversion and execration.
st, Inc glidmP Ese;s Of forest mountain,
n ma as tie on fhsr SatRs
Language aromatic with the scent OF
woods solemn with the silence of the
,Wilds, and weird withal The moose has
colossus now his horns eof bro @aG n MaS
and fixed with fringe Of bayonet prongs
t WHICH ), were the terror and envy Of the
The volume is .profusely illustrated by
Carl Rungius, and he has interpreted the
authors ideas with an art striking and
GENERAL MCCLELLAN. -
General Mcclellan. by General Peter
Co. $3.50 net In the series of tie Great
G{ Coz m the story Of General Mccle
ing interest to the student of American
military history. The salient military fea-
t lures in the career Of General Mcclellan
are 50 wei known, and SO little is known of
and wSich enabled him to iea We
civil life and at once take commanding
place in the Union Army, that it will not
be amiss to refer to the authors review of
his early life, and the inheritance of the
military instinct which he received from
ghng In the Of the ReEo
self as soidier Enterng the connect hr
militia as an officer he worked his way up
steadily to the grade of Brigadier General
Of rlyoh Giro too
and tireless work. The father of George
B: Mcclellan was an eminent physician at
philadelphia, and sent his son George at
prepare himself for the" career of a soldier.
t. & ahs academy wg ID his
lowed to enter. He was graduted second
Polk, in 1874 foreshadowed d the war aei with
Mexico AS the prospects for war BECAME
more certain. the members of McClellan's
class gave themselves up the more thorough
~ to the study OF tactics, strategy and the,
art of war. Upon graduation Mcclellan
ant of engineers. He distinguished him
self during that war for gallantry in action
as we'll as for his splendid assistance in
Of Vera Cruz which resulted in the cap
ture of that place. He was promoted twice
during that war and declined brevet for
a MnG sa b ksH be ne did mot gagS SI
Capt Mcclellan in preparing his report up
on the military operations Of the armies en-
gagged in the Siege of Sebastopol, and of the
European armies in genera1 was one of the
most comprehensive, clear and luminous
treatises on military science in the entire
literature of modern times. Such in part
was the preparation of the famous com
mander of the Army of the Potomac, who
was destined to bring to the service of his
country his wide knowledge of military af-
fairs, his inherited martial instinct, and his
unusually splendid preparation in the sci
years separated from the army, working in
exalted civic places. ' s.1gzl E.