The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-21
CentraI's Earnings.
BOOK NOTICES.

"McCullough's Little Stories for Lit
tie People" BY Annie Willis McCul-
Tough. Cloth, limo, illustrated. 12s
psges. Price, rs cents. American Book
Company, New York. This is the lat
est addition to the well-known and
widely-used series of Eclectic School
Readings. 1t comprises a carefully
graded selection of short and attractive
stories, many of which are arranged in
groups, to retain the child's interest in
the characters. The vocabulary used
is confined mainly to that found in the
five leading First Readers. and the new
nouns and verbs introduced in each les
son are closely related to those of the
story preceding
"Nathan Hale. Study of Charac-
ter" by William Ordway Partridge.
Funk & Wagnalls Company New York
city, publishers. Cloth $1.OO. AS
contribution to American history. the
book is of no mean value, despite the
authors modest judgment of his work
The comparison of Hale and Andre has
never been more fully OF broadly dis
cussed. George Cary Eggleston gives
an opinion of the relative merits of
Nathan Hale and Major Andre as fol-
lows Between the case of Nathan
Hale and the case of Mai. Andre there
is no comparison. but a contrast rather
Nathan Hale was technically a spy
and as such he suffered the death
winch CRUEL military law imposes for
that miscalled crime. Nathan Hale
went into the enemy's lines a patriot
bent upon finding out what force the
enemy had and what it's dispositions
We're. Maj. Andres mission was a diff
Ierent and a degraded one He came
into the American lines not as scout
which Hale was in essence-charged
with the duty of finding out the forces
and the position of his enemy. but as a.
corrupter of men, with money and with
enticing offers of official preferment
He came into the American lines to
hire major generals to betray their
trusts, to forfeit their oaths, to perjure
themselves, to make themselves the
most infamous creatures in existence
FOR the sake of such reward as he could
offer them. Nathan Hale's mission
was one OF honor; Andres mission was
one of infamy. Nathan Hale was
hanged upon a technicality which mill
tary men find it necessary to maintain
and enforce, Andre-high born and
highly connected as he was-was hang
ed for about the most infamous crime
that 1t is possible for any man to COM
mit-the crime of suborning perjury
the crime of purchasing perfidy-the
crime of betraying trust-the crime of
treasonsI IN its most infamous FORM
Carpenters Geographical Reader
Europe" by Frank G. Carpenter.
Cloth. 12mo., 456 pages. with maps and
illustrations. Price, 20 cents. Ameri-
can Book Company, New York. This
book is an admirable and highly sue
ceSsful attempt to clothe with flesh and
blood the skeleton of geographical facts
and to make the countries of Europe
living whole in the minds of the pu-
pills. 1t is based entirely upon the re-
cent personal observations of the au-
thor, and is therefore up-to-date in all
it's descriptions. 1t takes the children
through every part Of Europe and
points out all the most important
places and things, the subjects being
chosen both with due regard to child
interest, and at the same time to in
struction.
1.-THE Alaska Canadian Frontier" by
Thomas William Balch, 1412 Spruce
street, Philadelphia, Pa, cloth so cents.
In this little volume Mr.. Balch presents
all the salient features of the Alaskan
boundary question. In it's review of
the book the Philadelphia Press says:
1.-The preposterous Canadian claim to
aeaports in southeastern Alaska and to
an Interpretation of the Russo British
treaty of 1925, which none of those who
negotiated it ever put upon it, is a
modern invention. 1t dates from about
1854. Up to that time Canadian author
tiles, as had all British. American and
Russian authorities and such subSi-
diary bodies as the British Hudson Bay
Company had acquiesced in the ac-
cepted view of things under which
Russia administered it's American ter
ritory from 1926 to 1867, whose rights
in the premises passed to the United
States by purchase. Mr.. Balch also
shows that up to within few years
of the time in which Canada sprung
its new claim Great Britain recognized
the American possession of all the old
Russian rights and admitted officially
the United States control of all terri
tory thiI ~ miles from the windings of
the coast"
1.-THE Lady of New Orleans, a Novel
of the Present" by Marcellus Eugene
Thornton. The Abbey Press, ia Fifth
ave-. New York. publishers. Cloth
$3.50. This is a highly sensational
story of the realistic kind. Some of
the situations in New Orleans are i'm
probable but thrilling. There is a
strong portrayal of the color question
without coloring.
MAGAZINES.
In McClure's. for May Miss Stone
tells for the first time the story of
her capture and life among the Mace