The Appeal., 1902-02-15

ing, who stood beside their leaders, boldly
social conditions is of great Importance in
determining the outcome Of the great strug-
gleabetWeen the North and the South which
nature Of things the South was foredoomed edo me .
The book is a concise account Of our po.
lltfcal history. The author hopes chat 1t
may prove Of value to the man who votes
voter. ~, F4sE ~
81 MS FAIL, THE ISLE OF DESTINY.
Charles Johnston. Beautifully illustrated
and sumptuously bound. $3 Philadelphia: !:
Henry %n;s !, E Coates & Go. -
This Is not an 9rdiary volume
the story Of its history from the era Of the
cromlech builders and gives credit to the
sp spiritual III and Imaginative by the Celtic
MT. Johnston writes in the genuine Irish
spirit , and gives with enthusiasm the story
Of the land Of Fire, very old, yet full Of
gladness; too often visited by evil and paie
death} ae9a icy yet yelling ever up in unconquer
From the very gray of her morning the
children OF. ireland, We're preoccnpied with
the Invisible world; it was SO in the dark
est hours Of oppression and desOlatiOn; |;
driven from this world, we took refuge in
that; 1t was not the kingdom of heaven up
on earth, but the children Of earth seeking
echoes through all our history; we i've on
the Invisible world. If Il rightly under
stand our mission and our destiny, it is
Of that invisible that world Of our i'm
mortality; as Of old our race. went forth
carving carry the Gallean Evangel. We shall
nnst learn and then teach that not with
that our enduring interest is not here but
t, there, IN the unseen, the hidden, the inn
Those Sc exist al the
! fair mysterious land deserve b. her m name: me:
Inis Is. Fail. the Isle Of Destiny. .
g$3 HIS chapter on the crOmlech builders is
especially interesting, showing that these
mysterious circles Of monoliths must have
Siah 1een pallt IN an epoch Of Celtic supremacy
He sketches deftly and charmingly the
chief periods of Irish history, telling Of the
y, mork OF th Of st Patrick the raids Of the Morse
ter wrongs of the land question that still
Inger in q modified forn -. : ''''''
ireland is land with wonderful past.
beafy nas peen cen ana M Is now land Of singular
cholce photo-gravures Of Irish scenery,
castles and ruins. The descriptions are Of
never ending interest. f7-%,e-z~s -
g " y b. I ~ &C. r.
p =, 5ssf.l STRAY PAPERS.
Thacfsray Edited by 7a% LEWIS MelTi1Ie fhepeass S.
PhIIladelphia: AL George w. Jacobs & CO. !.
whom Thackeray has been one Of the
favorite English authors and whose mas
tertn tertif character Si sketches in Vanity Fair
preston and genius, f'stray Papers. one
of the years publications, edited by his
blographsr, odog Lewis Melville, will be a wei
cone T6o ADDITION o4bon to Thmack;eray m literature
sa to Life M Of PWIiG}snaphx WIi}ssm Mafeeppeaee Rfepeaa
Ihackeray,' noted several reviews, short
stories, verses, and sketches, not included
in in any edition of the Collected works; and
It 6, occurred esa r to me that volume of these
siderable interest," - :, 80. ~ :.
"Stray Papers, make very interesting
reading; because of the variety of subjects,
poltlcal literary, artistic and sociological.
treated by Thackeray in his youth, before
tn the & maturity Of genius, and demonstrate
q gr9Mth ot5sr as nsxtabe in the
70 contrast the creator of Lord Steyne''
and and "Esmond' with some Of the papers
dfugd Rere is to the grand genius
ana yet, there are found in this compila.
ton flashes Of wit, brilliancy and elouuence
Wnleh eraT gaye gaHe promise Of the later Thack
1S2l to 1S47, and contain many vivid de-
scriptions of the social life Of the English
people IN that evolutionary period of wars,
political intrigues 2@{ IN = = - :
J, A a. review on the essays of McCaulay and
their erect fec upon the national intellect. is
youthful literary enthusiast S s observation
OF a contemporary whose great position he
did dn not envy envy but applauded Of McCaulay,
acter of his times, who because Of his
eminence in the literary world. became the
poitieai pod ca and social equal of the nobility,
whose station resulted from wealth or
hereditary privileges; and that his writ
lngs did more for the liberal party than
az any liberal politician, and that al last
respectable. rs Is
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