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solution of it, having made a study of
it for many years, and having been so
situated a paft of his life as to be
able to study it intelligently His
presentation of the subject will I'M
doubtedly attract attention and invite
discussion. He handles it with a mas
ter hand, and the views he presents
under the guise of historical fiction
are not only entertaining, but are call
culated to make a strong impression.
The story is an intensely dramatic
one. There are no dull chapters in it.
Those who read the first few chap
ters will not be satisfied until they
have read them all. Mr.. Dixon has
lived a life hardly less remarkable
than the story of his novel-a state
legislator at the age of 20 before he
could vote, a New York preacher who
attracted a larger number of hearers
than any other clergyman in America,
and, now, retired to his beautiful Vir-
gilman home on the shore of Chesa-
peake Bay, he has, by his occasional
tours, become known as successful
popular lecturer. 1t is said that one
of our best authors has already writ
ten a novel about him. Though from
boyhood 1t has been his purpose to.
write books, 1.-The Leopard's Spots" is
his first novel. But 1t is not strange
that there should have been a demand
LEGATION of the first edition
1.-THE Scotch-Irish or the Scot in
North Britain. North Ireland and North
America" by Charles A. Hanna. G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York, publishers.
81 and 20 West Twenty third street
Cloth, $500. This work is in two vol
umes, and elegant volumes they are
They are a desirable addition to any
library. They show vast amount of
careful research. There is scarcely
anything any one would want to know
about the Scotch-Irish that cannot be
found in them. The history of this peo-
pie is given as fully as any one is likely
to care to know it. Particular atten-
ton is, of course, given to the Scotch
Irish in this country. 1t is not too
much to say that the work is one of
the most valuable and important addi-
lions to genealogical literature that has
been made for some time. No Scotch
Irish family that can afford to pur-
chase it will feel like being without it.
1t is pointed out in the first chapter
that the term Scotch Irish is pecu-
liarly American. The word seems to
have come into general use since the
Revolution, having been first taken as
a race name by many individuals of
very large class OF, people in the United
States, descendants of emigrants of
Scottish blood from the North of Ire
land. The name was not used by the
first of these emigrants. neither was it
generally applied to them by the people
whom they met IN this country. They
usually called themselves Scotch, just
as the descendants of their former
neighbors in Northern ireland do to-
day, and as do some of their own de-
scendants in this country who SEEM
ingly are averse to acknowledging any
connection with Ireland. The appella-
ton Scotch Irish" is not an indication
of mixed Hiberno-Scottfsh descent, al
though it could says the author, be
properly so used in many cases. 1t was
first appropriated as distinct
i've race name by, and els now gener-
ally applied to, the descendants in
America of the early Scotch Presbyte-
rian ep1igrants from Ireland The work
is one that will be appreciated by the
general reader as well as by the stu
dent. r-ss >-a a-f