The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

aFour Years Under 1Tarse Rnbsrts," by
 Msjor Bob Stiles, Yale, '59-"Stories of
 the Ancient GFseIs," by c. D: Shaw
 Books for Young People-cnpt. c. H.
 TowDsbsnd's "Pietorini History of
 Raynhsm (Sew Eaavenl and Vicinity
 Other Notes.
 A book of striking interest and pos sessing much that is specially interest ing to New Haveners,is the new work -Four Years Under Marse Roberts," by Major Robert Stiles-"Bob Stiles''-as he is affectionately remembered by his classmates at old Yale who loved this nnpetuous, frank, high spirited, gene rous southerner, whose home was New Haven for some years before he entered Yale, his father, Presbyterian clergy man, having been pastor for years Of the old South church in New Haven. Of this church the late Gerard Hallock, of the New York Journal of Commerce, whose home was ill New Haven, was the most prominent member and the chief supporter financially. Rev. Jo- seph c. Stiles, the father was native of Georgia, where his ancestors had lived and died for generations, but he removed to the north when Bob" was 3 lad. The latter attended school in New York and was prepared for Yale in New Haven. He graduated at Yale in At,a I,fe aIa ,knrs T1,,rx
 lessor Lounsbury of Yale, Rev. Joseph H. Twichell of Hartford, Attorney Louis H. Bristol. Attorney Roger s. White. Professor Arthur w. Wright of Yale, and other well known Connecticut men.
 Just after his graduation Major Stiles passed the late summer and autumn of s59 in the Adirondack woods fishing and hunting with several of his classmates. That was some years before Adirondack Murray drew national attention to the beauties of the Adirondacks. As may be imagined, the Adirondaeks was sol- itary and wild region compared with that region of to-day. He next paid his first visit to Richmond, coming back full of admiration and affection for the southern people, and little think ing he was to soon return there and un- der very different state of national af- fairs. He entered Columbia Law school and, as he says: Three or four of us Yale graduates and classmates were in the same boarding house in Washington Square. Ed. Darlington, youth of un- common power and promise, who lost his life during the war in an obscure skirmish in Florida, like myself, was studying law, but he roomed with Joe Twicheil, who was then studying theol- ogy; dear Joe, who preached the bi-cen- tennial sermon at Yale, and is to-day, as he always has been, the most ad- nlired and best beloved man of the class of '59 My roommate was Lounsbury, then employed in literary work on one of the great encyclopedias, to-day the distinguished incumbent of the chair of English in Yale University" Major Stiles then vividly describes the ap- ,Pfoach of the crisis which was soon to rend north and south apart and usher i'll the terrible conflict. The situation soon grew tense and leaving New York. he returned to New Haven, where a family conference was had, and 1t was decided that the father and his boys must go south at once, leaving the mother and the girls to follow when the coast should be clear and the rest of the family ready to receive them. Passports were asked for by Rev. MT. Stiles of his friend, General Scott. for himself and the three boys, but General Scott replied by sending pass for the father only. The three boys were then put to their trun1ps to find a way to get to Richmond other than by the rail- roads. Then follows a highly interest ing description of how the boys bought sailing craft and stocked 1t with pro- visions to set sail for southern waters. Accompanying them was New Haven man named James H. Beers, an intelli- gent young mechanic, who came origf- naiiy from Bridgeport, and who was g. member of the Bible class in the South church, to which young Stiles belonged. Beers had attracted the attention of Gerard Hallock, who took him to New York and gave him place on his pa- per, on which he soon rose to be assis- tant night editor. Beers was deter mined in his views that the south was in the right in the main and threw in his lot with the Southern Confederacy. going south with the Stiles brothers Beers, besides being a northern man, had wife and two little girls to pro- vide for, and left also f1attering pros- poets for promotion, to follow the for tunes of the south. The Stiles brothers and Beers did not, however, go in the boat as planned, and got to Washington by railroad, and thence succeeded easily in getting to Richmond. Beers, howev. CT, soon after reaching Richmond was arrested as 6 spy and was cleared only after many difficulties. Major Stiles was the main witness at the trial and his testimony not only secured Beers Triumphant acquittal but rendered Beers sort of hero, the dramatic points in the case being no doubt admirably brought out by the major. Beers. as he walked out of the court room was vocif- efously cheered by the entire big audi ence which had attended the hearing. Being so expert mechanic, he was given government employment at the armory in Richmond, as it was co1isid- cred that he could help the Confederacy more that way than by enlisting Beers did enlist, however, and was in the bat ties of Malvern Hill and other fights around Richmond, and was accounted the finest gunner in his battery. He was killed at Charlottesville, and Ma I~1f.