The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-18

J. resisting oppression. This difference in the
social conditions Is Of great Importance in
determining the outcome Of the great strug-
| gle between the North and the South which
| eliminated in the Civil War, for in thevery
| to defeat at fSSt 3#sE sE0s 81 rs
! The book is a concise account Of our po-
lltlcal history. The author hopes that it
may prove of value to the man who votes
and the woman who often Influences the
voter x3@sg ma a.
MS FAIL. THE ISLE OF. DESTINY.
Charles Johnston Beautifully illustrated
and sumptuOusly bound. So. Philadelphia:
| Henry T. Coates & Co. ,$% tESi
i not IT G1ddar
Builders and gves ere Credit to o. the
spiritual and imaginative by the Celtic
| race. EE 'a. 1A.sas ~, J, .a17sls
MI. Johnston writes in the genuine Irish
| spirit and gives with enthusiasm the story
efe land ndnf Ct Fire very old yet full Of
ed by sorrow, yet with heart of living
gladness; too often visited BY evil and pale
a asath ';fsy yet yelling ever up in unconauer
From the very gray of her morning the
! en- 0f ireland, were preoccupied with
j driven from this world, we took refuge in
! that; It was not the kingdom of heaven up.
a refuge in heaven. So the note rings and
echoes through all our history; we live on
! the invisible world. If rightly under
fbs cur ra mission and our destiny it is
OF that lnvisible; that world Of our i'm
mortality; as Of old our race went forth
CARVING the Gallean Eyangel We shall
i first learn. and then teach, that not with
/ wealth can the soul of man be satisfied;
that our enduring interest is not here but
| there, in the unseen, the hidden, the i'm
| visible beauties Of the world. # this be be
our mission and our purpose, well may our
fniT F my;ste 4ho LANG deserve her name
HIS chapter on the cromlech builders is
/ especially interesting, showing that these
mysterious circles of monoliths must have
which eliminated Il, 900 or Il, 900 years ago.
He sketches deity and charmingly the
chief periods Of Irish history, telling Of the
! men, the triumph Of feudalism, and the bit
ter wrongs of the land question that still
| linger in a modified form. - = -
Ireland Is land with q wonderful mast
| It mas been and Is now land of singular
beauty, and the book contains twenty-six
easss phG pan Of sh
never ending interest. ~.
| STRAY PAPERS. - ~.
apf Edited R 6y T TeMs meTs S.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Go. -
10 the American reading public, with
favorite English authors and whose mas as
terful character sketches in Vanity Fair
testify to his Incompatible felicity of ex-
tie yeas edtes BY
| biographer,. Lewis Melville, will be a vel
come me addition to Thackeray literature:
eo@p says in bs
ed to my Life of William Makepeace
T IaasaH I noted several reviews, short
in any edition of the Collected Works: and
neglected pieces would Be, # not % Of 'e cen
terar{ value at least of con-
STRAY Papers make very interesting
reading; because of the variety of subjects,
| treated by. Thackeray in his youth before
the law of growth as in new eo in the
| literary, as In any other career.
To contrast the creator of ''Lord Steyne''
found herein is to cntrast the grand genius
Of Shakespeare with that of Alfred Austin;
and yet there are found in this compila-
ton flashes of wit brilliancy and eloquence
which gave promise of the later Thack-
ahs eonan ne Rer 1d r ON
scriptfons Of the social life of the English
people; in that evolutionary period of wars
Coiii laws, slavery, ART unions, ana high
ttheir. effect upon the national intellect. is
ne as being the result Of
Of a contemporary whose great position he
did not envy but applauded: OF McCaulay,
ne says that at ne was the only literary char
eminence In the literary world, became the
political and social equal of the nobility,
| ana as POWerTul In influence as others
| St1tiOn
hereditary privileges: and that his writ
| fngs did more for the liberal party than
had come a man who had made. literature
| respectable. .a : :
! PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SULTAN.
Dorys, son of the late Prince of samoss a
}lly Governor, Of Crete: Translated by Ar.
LIE Of King Ea%ard VIII Wit h Isst rf
ed, 12mo, cloth, 81 20 net; postage 10 cents
ad @hd n4h New ". York: ?: Appleton Co.
| ly book has left the domain of the Sultan
| Of Turkey, and is now a resident of Paris.
He has been recently condemned to dea h
and VIII be executed should he return to
This description Of the inner life of
| the Sultan has probably never been eaualled
70 FOR drankness ct description and bodness
existence led by the Padishah in his giIded
Pah, ace Nv Whch as is really strong fortress,
having dogs and cats and even his staff
taste his food before he partakes of it..
aRd Heepns h hy Ro5 srk Of
an night In consequences; in constant ap-
prehension OF attack and ever ready to
draw one Of the three revolvers with which
/ fensiye persons; gloating over stories Of
| piood ana Violence: suspecting all around
MN, ana exiting and putting to death every
airy grievance. The chapter on the Imperial
iarem probably furnishes the most ac-
Gurate and complete account of the daily
W le aed s 6y the three hundred unhappy
ever been written. IL s~1 !. -
| !, short time ago a dispatch stated that
/ tile Sultan, while having his teeth attended
who had happened to give him accidentally.
little extra wrench. thinking the latter
mad designs rs on his life. Another dispatch
! I had started ar In the imperial harem and
| that LOO persons had been exiled on sus-
R Pc. Of having been implicated in it..
| IheSe incidents and many others of 4
similar nature would seem to bear out the
statements Of Mr. Dorys, who thus irags
the the snltan to the bar Of public opipion
and startling light. IS 1-zss- !.
THE 81 WORLD BEAUTIFUL IN BOOKS.
Lillian Whiting. 16 mo- PIP. AS. ST. net
Decorated cloth, $1.25 net. Boston: Little.
Brown & Co. ~. q. 1900 -
God be thanked for books! They make
They give to all who Will faithfully use
them the spiritual presence of the best
and and greatest Of our rae, No matter how
ity of my own time will not enter nv oh
seure dwelling,-ff the sacred virtues will
enter and take up their abode under my
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