The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-06-06

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tereSt1ng reading for his friends ana ad-
mtrers. Letters and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
which have been included exhibit gentle
and tender quality in, the nature and
character OF Senator ingalls, which he did
career The country looked upon him as
man of phenomenal brilliancy, with a
tendency to satire and keen excoriation,
which made him greatly feared BY ms
and which drew to the Senate galleries
thousands. of auditors whenever it was
known that he was to speak It PROB
able that his power for whitening invec-
tive and his mastery of language was
not equaled by any of his contemporaries
i But it is with Senator ingalls, as a man
reflective Individual, alive to all the hu-
man interests of existence, that the book
presented by his devoted wife has to deal.
ton of the phase of her husbands char
acter which Mrs Ingalls, desires TO en-
Dearest Wife: blue Grass" seems to
be one Of those compositions that the
world will not willingly let die.
Those were happy days when 1t was
written, in the little cottage on the plum,
roo1nf1l of babies; obscure and unknown,
waiting for the destiny, so soon to come
(that was to make. me one of the con-
spicuous figures of the country Tor so
But I would not recall my life and i've
it over again if I could, unless with the
power to improve lost opportunities,
amend errors, and correct mistakes How
clearly we see our folies when it is too
late. YOUR LOVING HUSBAND
SALLY wIsTER'S JOURNAL.
Sally Wisters Journal true nara
tive, being a Quaker malden's account
Continental tin army, 1777.177S. Edited by
Albert Cook Myers. With reproductions;
Of portraits, manuscripts, relies sa,r; and n
T ElswS 4 i Leach %G pp 22s' fnliaoe'pn'a.
Sally Wister's Journal is the record
kept by Quaker girl of 16 during a win
The greater part OF, the book has to do
with the savings and doings Of American
soldiers visiting or CHARTERED at the farm
house, to their attent1ons to the n w Tnret
Of peril Her teeth ratified and her
hand shook like an aspen lear when 1
cvercomes the feeling thus expressed and
says to her Philadelphia friend: my ad-
vice is summon up all your our feso ,1 a'of
call fortitude to your aid, and don't tbs suf
in 'i need Of myself rlsNy soon discov-
cred that soldiers arr 4 :uman. Thew
are she says livery Te 6Ser so ft
One "is the most amiable of men; tall
H % most FUZZY ~eG@ tas teo"s
How skilled he is in each obliging
The. .mildest manners with the 'bravest
Another soldier: A second is mons
something in his face and conversation
t t5e g{ery, the ma;or o so e bashfui, 50 fa
nous, ETC. He cannot be ex-
TOLD for the graces of person but for
those of the mind he may justly be cele-
brated; he is large in his person, manly,
and an engaging countenance and ad-
DRESS
ROMANCE OF THE COMMONPLACE.
The Romance of the Commonplace. By
Gelett Burgess. $3.50. San Francisco.
Paul Elder and Morgan Shepard. -
This is a volume of modern philosophy,
which ranks in that class of essays made
famous by Jerome K. Jerome Mr.. Bur
CESS says many clever things in his book,
discover many commonplace things writ
ten in a very uncommon manner. 1.-THE
desire to tell Secrets writes the author,
is one Of the most contagious of diseases,
and few of us are immune. Some Vtgor-
Gus moral constitutions never succumb,
but once an epidemic begins it is hard
work stopping 1t, and a secret on the ram
page is well nigh Irresistible. Tell your
secret, then, broadcast, and let it have it's
way until it dies out But above all never
confde"it to her who asserts she never has
the slightest desire to tell, for there like
seed sown in fertile ground, it will ger
inmate and flower long after you have for
gotten it, aye, and bring forth fruit you
never planted
| Again: 'Flattery is, however, an edged
| tool, and must be used with care It is
| not everyone who has the tact to decide at
glance just how much his victim will
stand
| Tho o,,+bor treats IF art SCIENCE and
| literature with such delicate, ironica]
criticism, and withal, with SO much of
| masterful art as to render this book OF
| unusual interest