The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-11

and 'Esmond' with some of the papers
found n herein is to cntrast the grand genius
OF Shakespeare with that Of Alfred Austin;
and(yet there are found in~ this compila-5
ton flashes of w.t.. brilliancy and eloquence
Which gave: promise of the later Thack-
aPfrs eenan ths ReFGa fr ae
scriptions Of the social life Of the English
people in that evolutionary period Of wars,
political intrigues. s. 8.
A review on the essays Of McCau,ay and
their effect upon, the national intellect. is
espeecei4al1y fine, as being the result Of a
ct OF contemporary whose great. position he
did not envy but applauded: OF eMcCaulay,
he says that he. was the only literary char
seminence in the literary world, became the
political and social equal of the nobility,
and altds as powerful in Influence as others
hereditary privileges; and that his writ
ings did more for the liberal party than
any liberal politician, and that at last
had come a man who had made literature
respectable. :: s.
@-& PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SULTAN.
Private Life Of the Sultan, by Georges
Dorys, son Of the, late Prince of Samos, a
former minister a Ct the Sultan and former
vate Life of King Edward VIZ ilIustrat t
ed, :l2mo, cloth, $1.20 net; postage 10 cents
@ The author of This remarkahle and lime No.
ly book has left the domain Of the Sultan
Of Turkey, and is now a resident of Paris.
and will be executed should he return to
Constantinople. : = - - -
!, This Il s description Of the inner life of
for .frankness Of description and boldness
lifts the ven on every phase Of the daily
existence LED D., by the Padishah in his gilded
CI-rn " q or NSorr fH,,fVo
where he lives in constant fear Of poison:
taste his food before he partakes of Fit it.
all night in consequence; in constant ap-
P9rehension Of attack and ever ready to
fensiye persons; gloating over stories Of
blood and violence: suspectingk all around
him, and exiting and putting to death every
airy grievance. The chapter on the ImDerial
Harem probably furnishes the most &C.
5:a and complete account of the daily
lifes>led by the three hundred unhappy
women shut up in the seraglfo that has
ever been written.
Z, 4 short time ago a dispatch stated that
to, drew revolver on the luckless dentist,
WHO had happened to give him accidentally
- little tie. extra wrench, thinking the latter
renor dedrs4 4ba on ms Another
that 100 persons had been exiled 'l On sa na
plclon Of having been implicated in it.
These incidents and many others of a
similar nature would seem to bear out the
statements Of Mr.. Dorys, who thus drags
the Sultan to- the bar of public opinion
and startling light. So"
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