The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-14
SOME NEW hooks.
. ara Everett uaie's UecoIicctions.

appeared in tie outlook magazine have been
revised and reprinted in two volumes bear
lug the collective title, Memories Of a Hun
dyed Years. by EDWARD EVERETT HALE
(Maolni lansl. These articles cmbody not
only the authors personal "reminiscences.
which themselves date bpck more than
seventy yeare.-he is now III his eigHty-ir|
year but also great deal Of interest ny
historical data which hay" come down To
hin fro n his forefathers. lie mas at hlS com
mand, he tells us, iuuumerabe diaries and
correspondence that throw light on the
ideas. the doings and IN" CustI ms, not
only of lin own generation. but Of IN" gen
era,iORs to which his parents and grand
parents belonged. DIR. Haes father loved
TO study history in the original documents
ana was az much pans to secure item. II
the subject, for inst nice, that engaged his
attention for the moment wac the Boston
Stamp Act he took measures 10 Obtain tn"
contemporary pamphlets, ii he wished 70
examine Mr. Websters onions on the
tariff at anv given period his Opinions
varied, IL viii he remember. a, with the
interests of III, const tuents Nr. Nathan
Hale would uHeartn the new spapers Of III"
day in which those opi.lon- Wei" reported
al first hand. Thus 1t has CONF TO pass
that It's son has in eIitci a mass Of valuable
material relating To the i-'orY Il tac United
States in the latter part of th" eighteenth
and the earlier part of the nm teenth cen
turv that it would prove difficult TO match
in any other private library, much OF
which is lacking in some large public coll
lotions of books ami papers.
For the r,Cul- CtiuI-- o' a century and
that century 80 crowded with important
events AZ the .h4eteeuth--thrrc il hut scaut
room, even IN two volumes comprising
some six hundred pages. W" must not
quarrel with the sc.vctic process applied
by the author to tn" copiuus and Divers,
materials al his disposal. II is prohabl"
that no two men would adopt the sam" prin-
ciples Of selection. d. Hale seems e.
have chosen for discussion the topics IN
which he is personally most Interested,
aud he recognizes that some Of his readers
may regret the exclusion of certain sub
iects He tells u- frankly that these Mem
cries of Century" contain almost nothing
about the Frelch War with which IN"
nineteenth century began, nothing abou,
the MeaiCai., or spanish, or many lndidn
wars, next to nothing about the marvel-
of science, photography, AZ H-thetics, cor
relation Of forces, and all that has sprung
from the new disco reries. There has beril
nothing Of the great missionary enterprises
nothing Of temperance, OF prison reform,
Of the organization of churches, Of chart
ties. We discovered q continent r. and W.
annexed Alaska, Of which there il nothing
here. The kentucky and Virginia Resolu-
tipns, distracting the politicians thu
Fcderalist party dying the Know Nothing
movement, all lived and died, Al. ther,.
were ruluy such all important catastro-
yhes Of which nothing is said here Tn"
Treaties of Gh, n. of Paris. Of Guadeloupe-
Hidalgo and Paris again. and So many her
treaties. aud nothing about them Chrro-
kee and Ssmif.ules, treaties which shall
stand az long AZ the river runs, nothing
about tbem! Oregon and the Columbia River
and California and it's gold Montana and
its silver.-pothing AZ D.. Hale con-
cedes that almost every one of thesa sub
jects is worth u volume, we hope that h.,
will giyeus another series of recollections.
The headings Of our authors chapters
contain but an Inadequate idea Of the va
riety Of their contents For example. the
ch1pter which bears the caption The
Smaller Boston" contains what the author
has to say about George Washington. u
Hale notes that. although he has personally
outlived the period when there was IA con.
certed determination 10 make Wa-hingt Oh
demtgod. thai period continued well
down the nineteenth century. Josiah
Quincy, who. a. one of John Hancock
aides, frequently saw Washington when
he came TO Boston in 1850. gave our author
an account of the impression made upon
him bv the Father OF his Country. n,
said that. although Washington had then
had very wide experience in life, there
appeared. mixed with the manner. Of .
perfect gentleman. a certain shyress such
a. you might see in any man who lives
good deal without the society Of other
people Exactly" Mr. Quincy explained.
"as you have met a fine country gentle
man from one Of The smaller towns, who
was spending the winter in the Iegisla-
ture at Boston" The implication, of
course, is that, while Washington va.
quite alive 20 The dignity of his position As
President, there still fingered ia his manner
the traces 81 what might hc called the
shyness OF plantation life. Hannibal Ham
In told our author that, when he entered
Congress IN lst? there were S,ill Nirginian.
there who had known Washington per-
sonally. They said that the reighbors
regarded him as n clear-headed, sensible
gentleman, whose opinion was worth hay-
ing. and who was well worth consulting
In farming matters or in common bust
ness. He thought that in Washington's
later years, this neighhorly feeling Guire
overruled the estimate which these same
people had Of his service to the country
Dr. Hale has also outgrown the not ion tha,
Washington objected on principle to a third
term Of tho Presidency. He points OUT
that, from the correspondence of the time,
II Ia quite certain that, as late as Sep
tember of the year 1900 the wear in which
John Adams was chosen President, neither
Adams nor Washington himself cw
whether Washington meant to serve a
third term. DE-. Halo is not disposed 10
dispute the entirely credible assertion that
the reason why Washington ult imatelv re-
spSetl not to let his name be rs 81 in the
Presidential election of 1895 was because.
he had become convinced that he could
nor carry his own State Of Virginia No
doubt he would have been chosen by the
Votes Of other States, hut he could not brook
the disclosure that his own country" as
he used 70 cali it, had lost confidence IN
hin, he Hal. tal