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getting that section mixed with Georgia
and Virginia. where the people were OF
a different tradition. and inclined to be
more conservative. Possibly the North
ern public nowadays is making the OPP
positc mistake Of suppOsing that the
whole South was like Virginia in tenn
per The present book is likely to
straighten out any mixed ideas which
people may have on this subject, and de-
fine clearly the part which the lower
South took both in the development of
ment. The author points out that this
section was largely responsible for the
westward movement of the first half Of
the century, owing to its need for more
land, and to the colonizing impulse
which is part of our Anglo-Sax in
heritance, and which was not satisfied
by the conservative, II pleasant. life
iof the plantations. The absolute ne
cessis.- of preserving the peculiar in
stitution" undsturbcd led this section
also to become the leader, together with
South Carolina in the pro-slavcry move
ment, and finally in secession; mean
while. it led to the Souths control of
the Government. II is n fascinating and
unique chapter in the history of the
country, and there is one point in it
which is brought out by the author.
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the first Of which, by far the longest,
gives its title to the book. and is made
up of three lectures delivered at Har-
ward On this subject. Three others. The
Orator Of Secession" tWilliam L. Yam
cey). The Resources Of the Confcd-
eracy." and THE Ku Klux Movement. -
were published in The Atlantic Month
ly." The other two, "A New Hero of
an Old Type" CRichmond p. Hobson)
and Shifting the White Mans Burden, "
have not before appeared.
In spite Of the reiterated assertion
of optimists that there is no sectional
feeling and no race problem in this
country, it is becoming plain to thought
full observers that both these things ex-
ist, and that they will have to work
themselves out somehow. some time, and
were not settled once for all by the
war. In this working out. such careful,
able, and conscientious writing as Mr.
Browns is of the utmost value as liter
ature. and as leading the public to deal
with these important questions in a way
which will tend 20 their settlement and
not to their aggravation.
The part which the lower South took
in American politics was pretty clearly
oomprehended during the years just be
fore the war, and too many extreme Abb
olitionists made the natural mistake OF
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A LOVERS DIARY.

THE lovers Progress. Told by Him
SELF" is book which has appeared
anonymously, and is said to be the gen.
uine record of a love affair. The writer
Is supposed to be cn Englishman
brought up in France, and his first
sweetheart French demoiselle Some
of the earlier descriptive passages,
describing the Acquaintance OF the two
while still boy and girl, are charming
The style is sort OF mixture Of French
and English idioms, reminding one a
little of Du Mdurier. In the latter chap
ter there is a little grisette who is as
thoroughly French and bewitching as
Daudet's daintiest creation.
There is no plot to the story; it is
simply record of experiences. 4 sue
cession of descriptions and character
sketches. In one of the later chapters
is bit of remarkable word-painting
dealing with an old musicians playing of
piece OF music Of his own composition,
entitled "The Dance of Death" IN a
still later chapter we have some inter
egting comments on Dumas Dame aux
Ganelias" and Daudet's "Sapho," which
may turn out to be still more interest
ing if the name of the author is ever
The Washington times., 1902-06-15
1FF CUFF STATES IN HISTORY.

aucticn. one paragraph of which defines
clearly the attitude of the author toward
his task:
1T will be something if these papers
shall make it plain that my subject is a
true body Of human life-a thing. and
not mass OF facts. a topic in political
science. an object lesson in large morali-
ties. To know the thing itself should be
our study; and the right study of it is
thought and passion. not research alone
For this. like every other great and
tragical human thing, passes forever into
the mind and character and life of who
soever touches it. though he touch it
never so lightly. If he himself be born
of it then he inherits all its past 1t
will forever strain him forth beyond his
narrow bonds Of individual experience;
darken his doubt into bewilderment: in
sist upon its share in his achievement:
echo with its AppomattoX his little fail
ures and surrenders. There is no other
such thing in the world. An eminent
man of purpose. who will never cnndone
a tragedy. called it once the saddest
fact in all the world'-and felt not, per-
haps. how many dreary lives he COM
passed with his phrase"
There are six papers in the volume,
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limited in comparison. The secret, ac-
cording to this author, is that the cadet
uses every minute of his time to the
best advantage. wastes none Of his
strength. and endeavors to keep himself
in the best possible condition mentally
and physically; and anyone who has
seriously tried to see what can be done
by having systematic plan for each
day and sticking religiously to it knows
TT an immense amount of work can
be put out of sight by this method. The
objection to such n system in college
work would be that a clock-work rou-
tine interferes more or less with that
liberty of thought and freedom of habit
necessary to some forms of the broader
culture. There are branches OF learn
ing in which system is not particularly
advantageous. In the study OF English
literature or history, for example, the
best results are frequently reached by
allowing the student to saturate him
self with reading at leisure, taking
plenty of time to asslmilate the atmos-
phere of period, and studying the
style of an author. not with intense
concentration, but sympathetically and
slowly. The West Point plan would
hardly give leisure enough for this. but
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+ THE LATEST ssPANSY" BOOK. + +

Unto the End is the latest work of
Mrs. G. R. Alden. who has written a
voluminous library of Sunday school
books under the nom de plume of pan
sy." While the style Of this author Is
considerably more lively than that Of
some of her contemporaries in the same
line of literature, and there is more
human nature in her novels than in the
cid fashioned type of Sunday school
reading. there is one insuperable objec-
tion to all Of them from a moral point
of view-their ethical standards are
twisted like unto a rams horn. The la
test volume of the collection is no ex-
ception to the rule.
The characters in Unto the End are
rot quite as vulgar in their ways as
those in some of the authors other
works. and they do not cram their re-
ligion down peoples throats with quite
the same determination. They belong,
or are supposed to belong. TO a higher
class of society. and the clothes that
they wear and the rooms that they oc-
cupy are described with an unction
that reminds one of Miss Laura Jean
Libbey. Mrs. Alden has a practical de-
light in worldly prosperity. But the
core of the moral teaching in the book
is about as rotten as anything can be.
The fabric of the story is literally built
upon deceit. One would not be surprised
to find just this sort Of plot in one OF
Baizacs novels, but it does seem lit
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TO criminate the witness, the proposed
question, together with the objection of
the witness. shall be submitted to the
superintendent in writing, and his de-
cison thereon shall be final
There is no place for liar at West
Point. From the first day that a cadet
begins his course of training at the
Military Academy he is made to real
ize that a dishonest man is the meanest
of his kind. No matter how small or
harmless the lie may seem. he must not
utter it. No room is left for sophistry.
\ lie Is lie, and is therefore unworthy
of the cadet and gentleman.
The course of instruction at West
Point is likely to astonish the average
reader. Considering the ages of the
cadets and the various other duties
which they are expected to perform, 1t
Is safe to Say that they absorb about
twice as much learning as the average
college student does in the same
length of time. OF course the curricu-
lum is not as extensive as the regular
university course, but the university
man is not required to do anything but
study, while the time that the cadet
can give to this occupation alone Is
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A Study in Homiletics.

Windows for Sermons" by Louis AL
bert Banks, is a series of papers on the
illustration of sermons. with collec-
tion of such illustrations intended for
the use of the clergyman. II this or
any other such book has very wide cir
culation among the clergymen of our
land it explains why we hear so many
commonplace and irrevercnt addresses
from the pulpit Here is one of the
stories supposed to be proper to intro
duce into n sermon.
"Dr. Gray. late editor of the In
terror, writing of the late DR.. Arthur
Edwards, said that he was once talk
ing with Edwards about a certain dis
tinguished preacher who had been eat
ing too freely OF city oats and was kick
ing over the traces. Edwards spoke
kindly and thOughtfully of him. and re-
marked. oh, we'll; he will be all right
in time. We will pull his hind shoes
and turn him out to grass for a while.
We will make a Twenty-third Psalm out
of him -
Now, if politician had used that
sort of language in speech, the whole
orthodox world would have arisen in
horror at his irreverence. But a poll
tician knows better. (New York Funk
& WagnaIls Company. Sl.50.l
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leisure is not what IN army officer II
supposed to have. His business is to
use all his faculties at once or singly,
wherever they happen TO be needed,
and in this respect West Point drill,
for picked youths. is invaluable. Some
modification of it might be good for
boys with other ambitions. for there ia
no doubt that lack of thoroughness. ac-
ouracy and discipline is the great fault
OF the average American boy.
One of the questions likely to arise
in the mind of the reader is. how. If all
that Mr.. Hancock says be true. the
cadets ever have time to invent and
practice the complicated hazing system
which. by their own confession. was in
vogue at the academy not so very long
ago. But on this topic he is discreetly
silent. 1t is probable that the hazers do
not represent the whole of West Point,
at any rate: and the routine for the
great majority of the students may easi-
ly be that which he describes. 1t is next
to impossible to keep boys so busy that
they will not somehow squeeze out time
to get into mischief
The book is Illustrated from photo
graphs of the buildings and surroundings
of West Point, and the pictures are par
ticularly good. (New York: G. P. Put
nam's Sons.)
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Life at West Point" by H. Irving
Hancock. is simple picture Of the
life and routine OF work at the Mill
tarv Academy. The only fault which
one could find with it is that it Is
nerhapa q little too perfect to be hu-
manly possible. According to Mr.. Han
cock It is about as hard for u West
point cadet TO do anything wrong as
:. would be for a convict at Sing Sing
70 20 on a spree, and for much the
same reason-he IS prevented.
However, the details Of the life at
West Point are very interesting. espe-
cisIIy in connection with the recent
celebration Of its centennial.
The book is not only detailed ac-
count of requirements and routine. but
Il contains many glImpses OF the cadet s
actuaI life. Here is one:
1T is a common sight for cadet cor
noraI going in:o the room Of a Plebe
20 find the latter seated at his table,
nen in hand. and sheet Of paper be-
fore him. on which the first dozen words
have been indited. The Plebe, look
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tie out of place in American religious
fiction.
The heroine is a clergyTnan's daugh
ter, who marries an 1880 clerk, suppos-
ing him to be man OF wealth. There is
something puzzliEg in the details Of the
husbands first evidence OF 6eprayity
IS given by his preferriGg, during the
first week OF his honeymoon, to stay at
home with his wife rather than g. to
prayer meeting. The author hints that
this should have aroused the young
wife's suspicious, but it did not. The
couple occupy apartments whose rent
is $40 a week, and the rent remains un-
paid for nine weeks, when the landlady
duns the bride for it. Sundry livery
hundreds OF dollars more, come in at
about the same time.
Mrs. Alden. in her zeal to prove The
young mans determination to 1--we be-
yond his income. has evidently over
looked the fact that the average city
landlady does not rent expensive apart
ments to clerks on small salary and
allow the rent to accumulate fo- more
than two months. II there Is any way
in which a man can continue to live be-
yond his income for years. without
eventually having to pay the bills. and
get $1,000 worth OF goods out of the
world every year for less than $4,000,
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This is the conclusion of the matter
as the author sees Il:
ITO alter the white mans attitude
toward the negro, to rid the negro OF
those characteristics which humanity
necessitate, although they may not JUS
tify. the white mans attitude toward
him-these are the two things that must
be done.
THE difficulty of these two tasks is
not to be underestimated-not even in
view OF the transcendent Importance
the necessity. OF getting them done. AS
to the negro, it will not be enough If,
his life outwardly after the white mans
He must be inwardly remade. He must,
in his own mind, erect himself into the
full stature OF the manhood that beats
must unlearn the lesson Of his own i'm
perious, masterful dominance He must.
somehow. learn to believe that there
is that in the negro which the negro's
habit OF servility bellies. He must obey
that higher law which still, above all
statutes and constitutions, impels with
an obligation which no written law can
ever make compelling. The obligation
is to forbearance, to gcn:leness, to sym
pathy; to the entire fairness which shall
not take account of rights; to the broth
erhood which alone can make of equality
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which is especially worthy of note; that
though forced by circumstances into
course of action almost un- English, the
men who were in It were still of the
same fiber as those of the rest OF the
country. typically English stock.
The characteristic Of Yancey is fit
pendant to this remarkable series of lee
lures. The paper on the resources of
the Confederacy and the one on the
Ku-Klux movement are thoughtfully
written history. The last of the series.
on race relations ct the South, is in
some ways the most significant and val
para graphs in it which might well be
taken as text for all legislation on
the subject. Here is sentence which
goes to the root of the business:
THE problem is OF free government
rather than of good government, and ii
cannot be separated from the greater
problem of which it is a part"
and here is another:
Negro suffrage has vitiated the po-
litical morality of the South, but it does
not follow that to disfranchise the bulk
of the negroes is to purify politics.
How TO get tribunals which will treat
negroes and white men alike is a prob
lem not yet solved. and it will not be
solved until public opinion shall demand
that they be treated alike"
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RELIGIOUS TRAINING.

Training the Church of the Future
is small book by Rev. Francis E.
Clark which is likely to be of interest
TO members Of Christian Endeavor So
cities and others interested in church
work An interesting scrap of history
in connection with the subject is given
by DR.. Clark as follows:
- notable instance of a desire for
personal religious exercise and work is
shown by a movement which began in
the early part of the eighteenth cen
tury and survived but d few years,
crushed cut apparently by the indifler-
ence or hostility of the churches. This
movement here M ny remarkable like
nesses to the modem Society of Chris
tian Endeavor. These young people Of
nearly 200 years ago had their weekly
meeting, in which, according to the
provisions of the ancient constitution,
it was ordered that there be two hours
at a time set apart. and let there be
two prayers made by the members of the
society in their turns, between which let
a sermon be repeated, and there should
be the singing psalm annexed
This society. which I had not heard
Of until an antiquarian brought it to my
attention years after the Christian En-
deavor movement was well under way,
had several other features analogous to
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A Novelist Who Yarns Too Well.

poem which was a favorite of the
author himself is that one of Oliver
Wendell Holmes which tells of the trou-
bles that came to him from once giving
free rein to his humorous fancy, and
how. since then. he has never dared to
be "as funny as he can
Miss Adelaide L. Rouse. whose latest
book, Under My Own Roof" Funk &
Wagnalls Company, has been compared
by the Chicago Record Herald in it's
pure and genial and whimsical hu-
NOR to the work of Dr.. Holmes. Is
meeting with something like his expe-
rience. Her story is so naturally told
that a number OF literary editors. in
cluding at least one of the most distin-
guished in the country. have identified
the author with her heroine, saying in
their Notes about authors" that Miss
Rouse" land not Honor Sharpe). is a
maiden lady OF forty" who has been,
until recently" newspaper woman
in New York" and is now 20 resident
Of suburb in New Jersey"
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prlses the observance of all the rules
of morality
1T follows. therefore. that the
strictest honesty is the first lesson
taught. The cadet learns that the Off
GERS placed in authority over him. no
matter how severe, are always straight
forward and truthful, and that he may
accept the word of any officer as repre-
senting the truth so far as that officer
knows the facts. In like manner the
cadet learns to tell the truth at once
whenever he Is questioned about any
thing In case he is questioned about
anything where free and frank answer
would incriminate him he is sometimes
privileged to remain silent. but If he
speaks ha must state the exact truth.
The conditions under which a cadet
may or may not refuse to testify on
the ground that his evidence would tend
TO incriminatc himself are defined in
the following paragraph from recent
regulations:
"A refusal to answer shall be reported
to the superintendent, who may proceed
against the offender as in the case of
disobedience to orders. II the refusal is
on the ground that the answer will tend
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before the law anything but the hideous
mockeey 1t is today"
No Southerner who has read the rest
OF the book with its earnest, thought
ful explanation-one need not call it
defense-of the history Of the Lower
South, the thrill OF sympathy with the
whole South which runs through it all,
can accuse the author OF unfaithfulness
to his people or their traditions; and no
body can possibly assert that the author
of the foregoing paragraph is partial or
preiudiced. Possibly it might be said
that 1t is pretty hard for black man,
educatedin the belief that he is inferior.
to erect himself into the full stature
OF the manhood that beats down his
own''-histo-y shows that the task il
almost an impossible one for a white
man in similar circumstances-but all
the same, as Mr.. Brown says. 1t will
have TO be done. II sectional problems
have to he discussed, this is a good
way to discuss them, and to those who.
assuming an air of practicality. talk
OF the uselessness Of sentiment in deaf
ing with these matters. it may be well
to hint that the aentiment of hatred is
not any more useful than the opposite
kind in dealing with anybody The i'm
partially OF this author is the most re-
freshing thing in his book. New York:
The Macmillan Company. S1.50)