The Appeal., 1903-11-07

There are other very interesting chap
ters in the book, The style is clear. unin-
volved and natural, and the author has
written instructively:> .'>7 i
CRUISING AMONG THE cARIBEEs.
) Cruising among the Caribees: BY
Charles Augustus Stoddard New York
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Some eight years ago Mr.. stoddard
published this very interesting, as well
as instructive, volume, which has since
served as valuable 99 guide u to ;t;e Travellers IS
revision which was deemed necessary
on account of the numerous, changes
both physical and political, which have
in the fr6 the
fact Of its being a book of travel, most
delightful study Of our tropical neighbors,
ance have made them among the most
romantic and picturesque people OF the
globe.
LORD DOLPHIN.
Lord Dolphin. BY Harriet, A.. Cheever,
author of ''Teds Little Dear" etc. Cloth,
thin II mo. Illustrated by Diantha W.
Horne. Net, 40 cents. Boston: Dana,
The. story of his own life, told for boys
and girls, by a big fish who was born in
the Mediterranean Sea, but whose ad-
OF Mew York Gity as Lord S po1pim has
many thrilling escapades. and his narra
tive throughout Is lively and droll. He
in the course of his story about life in
the deep sea-about divers, pearls, shells,
sponges, sharks, whales and his mortal
enemy, the flying fish: Every child be-
quaint, naive little autobiography.
THE STORY OF THE SLAVE.
slaysry and ssEyit~de aHST IN Nsw Jersey t:
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N. j.: Sinnickson Chew & Sons Co..
This monograph is a recital Of slavery
and servitude as it existed in New Jer-
sey. The fact is brought out that slay-
when the Dutch traders came with their
cargo, of human freight to Jamestown
The Aztecs In Mexico enslaved not only
enemies taken, i'll battle but those Of their
own nation who were convicted of theft
!, and other crimes. African slavery was
introduced in New Jersey in 3eso-at least
ownership of African slaves. Many. Of
the leading citizens engaged in the Afri
can slave trade. There is record of one
good old elder, whose ventures on the
who returned thanks on the Sunday fol-
I lowing the arrival of a SLAYER into the
harbor in these words: "An overruling
this land Of freedom another carse % Of Of
of gospel dispensation."
Perth Amboy was New Jerseys chief
port Of entry, and blacks were to be seen
there in goodly numbers, many of them
tribal marks: Adults sold from, $500 to
known as redemptive servitude, existed
throughout the Seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries. This form of bondage
ton Of the term the redemptioners were
merged into the mass Of white population
without any special faint Of servitude.
slaves. who were found to be cheaper
than white servants, checked in a meas
ure the trade in redemptioners.
Many white convicts were shipped to
were merged into the mass of the popu-
lation: An act providing for the gradual
abolition of slavery was passed by the
New New Jersey 1egd legislature in 1894: A fur
emancipation OF the slaves, although
there were but 1S in the entire state when
1850, Hon Garret A. Hobart, at that time ne
member of the state senate, introduced
ane :iad passed bill which removed
ery in New Jersey.
The little book contains much valuable
information.
THE WORTH OF WORDS.
The Worth Of Words: By Dr. Rale
n usted Bel. 12mO., gilt top. PIP. 300.
$3.50 net. New York: The Grafton Press.
In the introduction DR.. William Colby
Cooper says: Words are the red corpus
cles in the blood of language, and upon
language depends social integrity. See
the mighty Importance Of words. Is it
less than .sacrilegious to mistreat them?
Words being the red corpuscles of Ian
guage, it follows. that the smaller ones
6iS ib 5ns more anemc will be
DIR. Bell is poet and understands the
value of words as only the few do, and
in producing this work he has merely JUS
titled his natural fitness in this line.
Sorae persons are correct as to gram
mar, others as to rhetoric. A wrong use
Of a proposition or verb may be quite Of
fensive to the trained grammarian the
improper application Of a figure Of speech
offenIs the accomplished taste.
There was grocer who was very ac-
curate IN his grammer, and he wanted
his customers to use proper language,
and took some trouble to instruct them.