The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-05-03

the Dutchmen laughing that may be ali
right, but we have our serious doubts if
city 9f such Ne
N paroxysms at mere song, however
poorly sung. The picture is utterly unreal
and eXtravagant.
mo, genamuns." Sandy continued. "de
mothers, an is tryin'. to prove dey ain't
got no slave blood in 'em, is all a sick min
mess Q fools:' and then SANDY sat down
al and the heag appa1se This aee hs vo foe
the, applause of white men.
Sandy jenkins, the president of the Black
Cat Club. receives a letter from young
e1lored woman, Or school girl, in Terre
laureate of the levee and his fame had
extended far and wide. This young col
ored woman in Indiana becomes fascinated
by sandy's poetic talents: She. we are
parents, who had given her musical and
| literary training, and altogether she was a
very accomplished young woman: When
Mr. ,Carrothers tells us that, notwithstand-
antecedents and tendencies, and his drivel-
| ling idiocy, that he obtained an entree to
| the home Of this accomplished young woman
| at Terre Haute, who fell desperately in
love with him, we are convinced that
either the author Is attempting to ridicule
the. social standing. or rather the social
basis of educated .colored folk in order to
/ sell his book, or that he is woefully igno-
rant of the safeguards which responsible
colored parents generally throw around their
daughters. :, vf.-'.-... 49, %, -. ~
The dialect in the book is utterly worth
less as representing the speech of any class
| OF Negroes who live in Chicago. The a,l-
thor tells us in his preface that 1.-THE Ne
gro is himself everywhsre, whether ,edu-
because it had been our customary expert
ence to find any man himself whether white
or black. His Negroes are, however. myth
zeal beings-creatures of disordered i'm
The book is beautifully bound with taste
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DOROTHY SOUTH
Dorothy South. BY George Cary Egg
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the Virginians of the great plantations
during the decade before the civil war
them misfortune, if not a sin of omis
sion. They looked upon their countrymen
ION 1aotad other states very much as the Greeks
them 'sbarbarians. Mr., Eggleston tells us :;
and he sympathizes with the feeling. at
least for the purposes of his novel. which
with a series of pictures of the life and
the time and the place that are full of
grace.
The Negro characters in the book, they
are all slaves. were well treated by their
masters and well cared for because they
were very valuable property.
Mr.. Eggleston's hero is at first something
Of prig. but he becomes human very rap
idly after circumstances have led him into
the current of the plot. There is no drama
here. even though the war fills the closing
chapters of the book. which is mainly a
picture of the peaceful. cultured. cOnserya-
tive, old-fashioned south of the past
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