The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-08-23
IN THE EoREsT

nn Elm put ans snort'xed indeed They were
an ana fight, and against what odds. over
d fSS - the slope. Legs in the midst q
weakly to the last. And when "the pack
buried him and he struck no more" one
wonders when the brutality of man still
torture Of beasts, will depart. LEGS"
the outcast and pariah, obtains our sym
patty, while his human tornentors merit
nothing 'Tpa 81 PVT aversion and execration
stream and isolated den, where live and
roam roam in solitude. broken rarely: by the
heath" are painted by the author Or : in
Language aromatic with the scent of
W wi1Sa $50 solemn n' with the silence Of the
colossus now" his horns. broadly paimed
and hxed with fringe of bayonet prongs
herds.', ~ rS5l.3-S,>,-=. .. :" :.
The volume is profusely illustrated by
CarI Fungus, and he has interpreted the
| picturesque. .s 4 - s: - =. '1tT
o,,z...TzSs GENERAL MCCLELLAN. I'll
n General a9aSi MCCLELLAN. By General Peter
Go: $1.50 net. In the series Of A tie Great
commanders the story Of General McClel-
Ian by General Peter s. Niche is of absorb
Ing interest to the student Of American
military history. The salient military fea-
lures in the career of General Mcclellan
are SO well known, and so little is known Of
underwent, and which enabled him to leave
civil life and at once take a commanding
place in the Union Army, that it will not
be amiss to refer to the authors review Of
his early. life, and the Inheritance of the
military Instinct which he received from a
| lighting ancestor. In the War Of the Revo-
luton Samuel Mcclellan distinguished him
self as a soldier; Entering the Connecticut
militia as an officer he worked his way up
steadily to the grade of Brigadier General
by the exhibition of remarkable strategy
and tlreless work. The father of George
=: 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 a soldier
Although below the required age for admis-
| sion to the military academy, owing to his
good health and superb physique he was al
TO enter ba vas SECOND
Polk, in 1874. foreshadowed the war with
Mexico. AS the prospects for war became
more certain, the members of Mcclellan S
class gave themselves up the more thorough
| ~ to the study of tactics strategy and the
art OF war. Upon graduation Mcclellan
was commissioned brevet Second Lieuten-
ant of engineers. He distinguished him
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 declined brevet for
Molino Del Rey because he did not partici-
pate in the battle.1 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 generai was one Of the
most. comprehensive clear and luminous
treatises on military science in the entire
literature of modern times. Such in part
the II Pr {s q TIL the famogs
was destined to bringrto the service Of his
country his wide knowledge Of military af-
fairs, his inherited martial instinct, and his
I ence of%sWar-s after having been for many
years separated from the army working in
exalted civic places. s*z%Z
z AMER fCAN .CoMMUNITIEs
- American Communities. By William ssAl-
fred Kinds, Ph. ID. PIP. 433 ST. n Il Chi
cago: Charles Fl. Kerr & &C. american
an unusually interesting review of the es-
Enlistment and growth of the Communis-
tic, emi-communistIc and cooperative. So
eietieS Which have been from time to time
ume Is Invaluable as a reference book, and
contains data not to be found in any other
similar publication of which we know:
nearly two hundred years ago, have long
since been abandoned, and the dwellings OF
liner Inhabitants fallen into decay but
that as long as their members were actu-
ated by the cooperative spirit, and re-
manned faithful to their religious tenets,
hy aha and Pnq 1na n
the Oneida Community-the Shakers, Sepa-
ratists Of Zoar, Harmonists, and the Amana
Community, are conspicuous Illustrations Of
exclusion of individual and selfish interests.
There is much of similarity about all Of
these communities as the author shows.
and carry into practical operation some
religious belief. OF the Oneida Commun-
ity, perhaps the largest and most prosper
bald eapita dis
tributed quarterly dividends averaging six
per cent per annum, and accumulated a
i has Of It's
where !: concentrated it's business at Ken
wood and Niagara Fails, N. " and Mag
ara Falls, Canada establ ished offices in New
York. Chicago, st, Louis ana other places: inn
proved it's facilities for production and dis
.tribution many of its5frst leaders and man
ayers have given place to their juniors. who
the reputation of the old community for
honest work and honest dealing is rigidly
maintained !; and altogether the future pros.
%
gone into the Wildernesses and made them
blossom as the rose and the profound
on Tie American tie and morals viii easily
be- seen by all who read Mr. Kinds very
interesting book. ss s
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EDUCATION AND THE LARGER LIFE.
J, Education ard the Larger Life. By c.
H. HI nderson. PIP. 1856. 100 net. Boston i
-arrl New York. Houghton, Miffin & Co.
This is the title of book bye. II.
Henderson which has made its appear
ance this year. The title suggests
treatise on philosophy, and one does not
turn over many pages in this interesting
volume before discovering original ideas
elaborated in clear, striking and con-
rincing manner. Ell ssts;s5s$
applied, are subjects which have been ex-
hausted by the worlds greatest philoso-
piers and publicists, and one does not ex-
pect to encounter in our time any new
ideas on such subjects, unless from q
World-famed thinker. in the class wi
Aristotle. Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Rous-
son has however, stated proposition
about the significance of language, which
sosfar asswe know is entirely original. and
which in our opinion, lays the foundation
fora for new grammar of great simplicity
and strength. He says:7Sss..N may say
that Just as human consciousness is the !,
Inexperienced reality, so the expression
of tins reality is to be found IN language.
Logically speaking We have only three
classes OF words, nouns, verbs and COM
nectlyes. For convenience of treatment,
the grammars name eight or nine. The
author then says. that the entire phe-
nomena5 of the physical world may be re-
solved into three manifesto tons, mat
tel, motion and relation, and that since