The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-01-17

!, legend told in r ..The Golden Book 81.
Apuleius s and have put with 1T the cele-s
bsated frescoes s Raphael the originals
Farnesiha In Ro ONE. Ii These with therpre-f
the novelette, Of Apuieius, titus producing
and woman will burn to possess. "A hap
pier combination Of two artsTthe art of
painting and the art Of telling q story
Of the romance told by Apulefus and
RaphaeIs pictures. sE .
3ssE 4 IS THE NEGRO. ss,,. Il >t4
The Negro in Revelation, in History,
and In Citizenship. BY Rev. j. j. Pip
kin XII, 8? st. Louis 'Do1is ~ D. Thompson
This book is written along original lines
humanity and patriotism. It is well call
culated to 81 promote good feeling and
mutual helpfuIness between the races
recognized that they are neighbors- that
they occupy the same country, and will
occupy 1t for generations to .come-that a
mutual understanding and 2 mutual good
1t will. impress the Afro American man
and the Afro American boy with the pos
sibilities of achievement. The book gives
res resentafive Afro-American that win not
fail to raise the standard and klndle the
aspirations of every Afro American man
and boy. It will likewise serve. to i'm.
strides made by the Afro American since
the emancipation This achievement is
such as to win for him universal respect
It is written from the standpoint. Of
nffection and good will for the race. The
association of the name of Gen. John 3. .
Gordon, by way of introduction, whose
United States senator, distinguished
general has won admiration and uni
versal regard, is a guarantee of the great
character and high purpose of the book.
4 1t is a book net only for the Afro
American but for the Caucasian. Its
revelations will be a source of agreeable
establishment to him. -.
= THE WORTH OF WORDS. .j
The Worth Of Words; By DR.. Ralcy
'i,So ret. New YORK: The Grafton Graf Press e
b In the introduction DR.. William Colby
scles in the, blood of language, and upon
language depends social integrity. See
the mighty. Importance of words. Is it
less than ssacrilegious to mistreat them?
guage. it follows that the smaller ones
vocabulary Is. the more anemic will be
his brains children
DR.. Bell is a 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.
some persons are correct DIS 10 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 figure Of speech
offends the accomplished taste
Z There\ was a grocer who was very &C
curate in his grammer,. and he wanted
his customers to use proper language
and took some trouble to instruct them.
One day a customer called and said to
| him: whats eggs to-day?" The reply
was Eggs are eggs; Darn glad to
hear it, the last 1, got here were more
In ''The, Worth of Words DR.. Bell at
tacks misused words, vulgarisms,, every
day errors and slang in a concise but
clear manner and many errors of speech
which are often made by persons OF IN,
telligence may be corrected by careful
study Of the book.
+ 2. OLD PLANTATION DAYS.
Old Plantation Days. BY Martha S.
Gielow Illustrated with striking e. cha eI g.
S ter Ss% HprK g r. } f. Ru M Gt
The success of Uncle Remus," Paul
sketches has caused many writer's to turn
their attention to the Negro of the South,
and they. have given US "studles OF vary
ton has not been made to the literature
which seeks to describe life in the Black
Belt, especially as it was "befo' de Wah,
than "Old Plantation Days"
I The book is collection of original dia-
| lect stories said to have been taken from
the lips of an old black NANNY and
which do not belle their alleged source:
! The stories are all worth the telling, and
the dialect is neither difficult nor exag-
gerated. Illustrated with striking photo
graphs from living types. "