The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-03-01

,s,d LIZ ~ 9 ", CARDINAL WQLSEY
By Ethelred L. Taunton. So net. New
Ethelred s. Taunton is an English Ro-
History of Jesuits in England, { and this
volume presents Cardinal Wolsey in a new
light. Although Catholic, the work is
plain truth. Taunton $ estimate Of the car
dinal is greatly at variance with that Of
hakespeare,w who in his Henry Will rep
resents Wolsey as saying: $3.50
Had ! but served my God with half the
4 served my king, He would not in mine
Have left me naked to mine enemies, !.
The author claims that Shakespeare
would not have dared to write the truth
about az ina Cardinal Wolsey in the time of
If the several propositions Of this latest
work on the primate are to be accepted.
however, Wolsey's truest eminence is en-
GUS, loyal and in the end self-sa crifcing.
He is represented as ambitious, chiefly for
MS MS church's sake; The splendor Of his
glory Of his office. His Intimacy with
Henry, if due to above of power, was due
also to "a love for the advancement and
his Master. Finally, even in the -negotia-:
lions over what the writer calls s"The Dr.
yorce, Henry's ambassador fell because
Henry's desires suffered through the Ie-s
gates determination to preserve intact fhe
power of Rome q ,a7fs' { :, =
One thing. is, however, certain. That is
the cardinals faith in education, which is
attested by the historic Christ Church Col
lege at Oxford. $500 -
The author commends Wolsey for his sup
PRESTON Of Lnther's writings in England
and for lis deathbed advice to Henry: 81 E#
Il request his grace, in Gods name, that
ne nave g ylgilant eye to depress the new
perniciouss sect of Lutherans, that it do not
increase within. his dominions through his
ho ho11
o pc fair at length to put harness upon his
back to subdue them.' - 4
Regarding the liberality of mind Of the
cardinal Mr.. Taunton says:
Though stern toward false teaching, and
clearly early, ALIVE to the danger the great
through ignorance, had become infected.
I Not one Of the many brought before the
Legatine Court on the charge Of heresy
was ny And this Christian tolerance
table when we recall the hideous cruelties
which prostituted the name of religion in
the latter years Of Henry, and in the reign
last cSaper neludSa II this
He is spoken of as having confirmed cate
during that memorable last Journey, sssun-
I'll constrained for WEAKNESS to sit down
IN ina J, chair, the number Of children was
and then went to supper and rested him,
self there all that night The next morn
ing, before setting out, he claid hands on
he rode on in the crisp air of a Yorkshire
morning, ne found grouped around q stone
cross which stood on a little green near
dtad oni7S, group. Of nearly two hun
TO to! confirm them. At once he alighted from
his mule and administered the Sacrament
under the canopy Of heaven" So I
, This comprehensive volume on the life
OF so prominent a cleric will prove Of great
interest Father Taunton does not treat
Laore than the ecclesiastic features Of the
in interesting detail. The book is Illus
trated with twenty-one good eneravings Of
famous cha"" t'ters and cathedrals.t
3 CHARLES W. CHESNUTT's BOOKS.
=, The success achieved by Mr. Charles W.
Chestnut in the Marrow of Traditionv has
directed al 1,: the attention Of the reading public
TO MS other. productions. It has not been
very many months since Mr.. Chestnut took
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H 9 fba Wa ann "a at once caused
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OF letters Of another star Of the same mag
nitude as Dunbar. .a<.2E : .
g. Since, The Coophered Grapevine ''Po'
BecFys se and efher re7elatens
OF the slave planta lions before the
war won him q place in the litera turc Of
our country, Mr.. Chestnut has continued
MS work and entered into the more serious
phases OF Afro-American life with a sue
cess as decided as it has been Surprising.
Inc House Behind the Cedars' is: a story
OF OF Southern life, in which every social
phase is presented with the, startling cum
mng OF a literary, Phidias: A young Afro
A 1ela an. man, almost white, studies law
gentleman, for whom he worked as an office
boy. He was the natural son by mulatto
MOI woman OF another white man Of. high So
North Carolina and goes to South Carolina.
Where the law declared ''persons having
cnIy done,eighth negro blood shall be de-
e e1afea to BE- White He becomes an
ing South Carolina family, whose estate he
finally inherits after the deaths of ali sur
o Wy So, heirs After the absence from his
VISITS yI:l MS mother and sister clandestinely.
HIS sister has grown into womanhood.
. t. graceful and dignified. He final.
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where she would lose her racial identity
ana ana pe white woman. a wealthy young
finds finds out that she is a woman Of color and
breaks the engagement. In his solitude he
eaGods oyer his lost love and frantically re-
her race: He does so-too late, She died
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ana ana lts interest is sustained from the open.
cont tng rnaRfer to the close It is valuable
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