The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-05-16
NEW YORK OLD AND NEW.

rockwell wilson. Two Eolumes: 1Iu :7
adelEhia: j.. B. LiPpincott Company:
New York Old and New by Rufus
Rockwell Wilson, is publication in two
the student. The author. after reviewing
the struggle upon the high seas between
SPAIN Holland and England for the mas
sketch Of th1 settlement of New Amsler-
dam by the Dutch. This story of the es
Enlistment Of Dutch colonial dependen-
cies is one of the world.s> greatest nara
labor in the midst of vicissitudes and
dangers which would have overawed
less hardy race. After. recounting the
successive administrations of the colony
under various Dutch governors. the au-
thor brings us to the Iron Rule OF Peter
Stuyvesant, who declared in the presence
came to rule them las a father his chill
dren." He soon taught the colonists the
meaning Of his remark that he would
rule them as a father his children by
dictatorial methods which brooked no OPP
position, by stubborn and unyielding
disposition to enforce a system OF gov
was utterly contrary to that which they
had been accustomed to living under IN
the representative towns of Holland: AND
even after representative form OF gov
thorities. Stuyvesant claimed and often
exercised the right to preside over the
town assemblies. He also assumed the
right that he still had authority to make
ordinances and issue proclamations bind
had been given the people wherein the
rights of the governor were clearly 11 i I'M
nesses.''
1.-THE charter of 1853 marked the visible
beginning of representative government
whose heroic labors it was due deserve
and will ever hold an honorable place In
There were no idlers in the New An N
sterdam of StuyveSantS time, yet the
| Dutch were a pleasure loving people, and
found leisure for an abundance of homely
and hearty sports.
1.-THE fight for a free press. is one of
the most Interesting chapters in the first
| volume and tells the old, old story OF
| censorship, incarceration. Of editors who
| dared tell the TRUTH and finally the TIL
A piece Of history Which is not very
well known is told by the author in clear
and attractXe Hsnro Pe n IS 4he story
of the towns population. Slave inporta-
ton into the town began some time prior
| to 1928 and apears to have reached a eli
max about 1746, when a census, of the
! town showed two thousand four hundred
slaves in population less than twelve
thousand Thereafter the re natural t i'm
of indentured white servants assured a
supply of labor for the needs of the col
! ony.'' The author then, after sketchlne
| us that in the course of time the white
| people became very much alarmed at the
| aggressive attitude of the slaves and be,
gan to enact such drastic laws against
them which shows that they lived in con-
! slant dread Of an uprising.
'Slaves were prohibited from gathering
the Sabbath in G%R5 of more no
guns, swords, or clubs under penalty o.
ten lashes at the whipping post; gaming
was visited by the same penalty, and the
nightfall anywhere south of the. Collec
without 'iantern and a lighted candle
in it, was liable to forty lashes at the
whipping post F na1d it it WAS deerfGe
out pail or bearers, and not more thar
twelve slaves were permitted to attend
! the funeral.
If these restrictions led to uprisings
among the blacks they were punished
! with unsparing hand. Then follows {
very vivid account of the Great Negro
Plot Of l141 Whlfh a eaused t+d panlf
by blood shed and torture of the most eN:
| cruciating kind -
The transition Of New Amsterdam into
| the New York City Of the Revolutionary
| period is followed by the author very
closely, not only with an easy and grace
full flow of language, but is deliberately il
| Illustrated by pictures of the scenes and
| places of early days.
These two volumes are intensely in.
teresting, and from a historical viewpoint
| the author has done much for the truth
! THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.
1.-THE Night Side of London" By Rob-
Maeh1ay 50 ~ yG
B. Lippincott Company.
"The Night Side of London by Rob-
ert Machray,. is an unusually interesting
are drawn with skill and enhance the in
terest one takes in it. The pen of the
author and pencil of the artist are both
used with fine effect in laying bare the
types whose contrasts are more striking
in London than even in Paris or else
where in the great and populous centers
Of human vice and xrtue S. So vtyd
with the nights, in Picadilly like unto
the ebb and flow of the eternal tides
terpreted the authors ideas and Illusions
! that we fancy ourselves promenadins
| and parading up and down the illuminate
Of Pieady at night entsrn3
with inviting appearance along the
streets, and participating in the gay anc
pleasure bent pageantry of the crowds
and physical cripples whose names are
| legion there.
1T is a scene that stirs the fancy ane
touches the imagination: AS, the the
themselves into the streets, the Circus i:
full of the flashing and twinkling of tho
mutitudinous lights of hurrying han
SONS, Of many carriages speeding home
ward to supper, of streams of people
men and women, mostly in evening dres:
walking along, smiling and jesting, ant
talking Of what they have been to see
You catch charming glimpses in the soft
ening electric light of slyph-like forms
pink flushed, happy faces. snowy Shout
Of silk and satin. Diamonds sparkle ii
my ladys hair; her light laughter ripple:
over to you and you smile responsive
a faint fragrance perfumes the wander
on outside your radius. And there are
many such visions, each with it's owr
story, it's own revelation-but with these
we have nothing to do, further than tt
say that they. are all part of this pagean
of the night ..
And of the London half world the au,
thor says: ION this lovely summer nigh
they faunt themselves in all their BRAY.
cry; the majority of them indeed are mo-
badly dressed nor are all painted Some
are unmistakenly, English. Some have
bold eyes, some have not. They seen
sOber-every one. But what number
| Of them. And all sorts and sizes, SO te
say; all fond of kiss and fond of g
| guinea - -
The night side of London thigh life
is on the surface extremely Kaleidoscope
| but beneath the surface and in all es-
sentials it differs a little from the night
| side of high life from what it was since
it has always been, and always will be-
Mr.. H. c. Wells anticlpations to the con-
! trary Notwithstanding the pursuit OF
pleasure in an everlasting Vanity Fair