The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-09-20
IN THE FOREST.

$50 SeW york; p poabledag, F R9sse E
I'm the Forest is. a contribution to
ztne literature Of our country of positive
value. - This volume contains stories of
e %11ae co wherein the stately deer the
12rq 4 speak from the heart Of. the wiids.
H Rirle and nd Significant apeecb y nstnrs
IN heT natural and primitive conditions. +"
Mr.; Foster has made distinct depart
ufe IroY the ordinary stories of forest
ies has a animas ki l},any Jungle stoE-
and do not talk. - ' "s'' =
- He He plays upon your sympathies by elo..
Ion, ana IN the story of Legs" the
coyote go Transported from his western l1ab-
a n;5oI,1 TO the east to-, furnish in the chase
o o9,gs,, ones sympathy goes out spontane-
ously to this poor beast, struggling at
s s,mes against aa hunger and trusting to his
being torn t. pieces by the '1 murderou i:s
pack Of hounds at his heels. Time "a after Her
ZINE ale;ta ne e. einded his tormentors, but his
It did we find ourselves Wishing him bet
The climb to the hiiltop was ass s fy f but it
nshind He t9Nk f Mgre
on him anew, No use. He must turn
t ana hi Eht co ana against what odds Over
down the slope. Legs in the midst of
the baying hounds, was fighting but
weakly to the last. And when THE pack
w Wur3Ge MN Man and ne struck no more"
finding pleasure and recreation in the
te ostc q beasts sna yin depart LEGS
PATTY, while his human tormentors merit nyMi
nothing but aversion and execration. :, :
s+r The glimpses Of forest, mountain,
roam roam in solitude, broken rarely by the
feet Of man, the animals con their native
1 heatna are painted by, the. author in
Woeds so,a ar9matiG with the scent OF
wilds, and weird withai The moose has has
his story to ten, the Moose who how was ;a a
s auG f5usd noW MS horns broadly palmed
ali9 I4ed with a fringe of bayonet prongs
herds" .5sa s. = ~'.'NA z0l''s u 'iie
The volume is profusely illustrated bv
authors ideas with an art striking and
picturesque. .Eo >"'i>@
GENERAL MCCLELLAN
~ General Mcclellan: BY General Peter
sSS net eH tRe series of AtR SRe &reaf
G GO m the story Of General McCiel:
military history. The salient military fea-
lures In the career Of. General Mcclellan
are so we'll known, and so little is known OF
the careful and extensive preparation he
underwent, and which enabled him to leave
cyll Ire ana at once take a commanding
place in the Union Army, that it will not
be- be amiss to Q refer to, the authors review of
his early. life, and the inheritance of the
military instinct. which he received from a
hghting ancestor. In the War Of the Revo-
self as soldier. Entering the Connecti i
militia as an officer he worked his way IN
ST. steadily to the grade of Brigadier General
oy me e, exhlDltlon Of Il, remarkable strategy
70 hnp Of
s. MCCLELLAN was an eminent physician at
Philadelphia, and sent his son George at
the age Of fifteen years to West Point to
prepare himself for the career of soldier
Although below the required age for admis-
sion to the military academy, owing to his
good good, health "a h and superb physique he was al
Polk, in 1914, foreshadowed the war With
Mexico: AS the prospects for war became
class gave themselves Up the more thorough.
ly to the study of tactics, strategy and the
art of war. Uponl graduation Mcclellan
was commissioned a brevet Second Lieuten-
ant Of engineers. He distinguished ~hims
self during that war for gallantry in action
as well as for his splendid assistance in
constructing engineering works at the siege
ture of that place. He was promoted twice
during that war and declinedi a brevet for
Molfno De! Rey because he did; not partici-
pate in the battle. The work performed by
Capt. Mcclellan in preparing his report up
on the military operations Of the armies en-
gagged In the Siege Of Sebastopol and of the
European armies in :generar was one of the
treatises on military science in the entire
literature of modern, times. Such in part
was the preparation Of the famous com
mander Of the Army of the Potomac, who
country his wide knowledge Of military af-
fairs, his inherited martial instinct, and his
unusually splendid preparation in the sci
nf So,