The Appeal., 1903-07-25

tie Of water. In the morning he discovered 1
the water bottle full and the whisky bot
he remarked
The writer. describes in a very interest
ing manner scenes. people and places in |
the Philippines, the straits settlement. /
Japan China, and other countries in the !
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The Illustrations are, many OF them in |
coIors and /. are re very elaborate sy @ NJ
81 III BAPTIST ANNUAL '3szs~sa y
The American Baptist Year Book for
society of thai denomination at Philadel- J
phia (paper, IS cents). 1t gives full de-
tails OF each Of the seventeen general So
two OF young, people. The State organ
izations, which show the white and COL
ored strength of the Church in separate
tistics which shows thatsthe total mem
bership in America is over 100000, an
increase Of over $4,000 since last year.
THE TRUE ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The True Abraham Lincoln. BY Will
liam Eleroy Curtis, author OF The True
Thomas Jefferson.l Crown 8vo. Cloth.
fSpp %ippiaeo9t ce&psny, Con- q; n'taoe'pn'a: ''
There are a few. rare characters in
history, the record of whose lives grow in
interest with each succeeding generation,
and which gleam brighter as time passes,
instead OF fading with the general wreck
of men and things, by which they were
environed.
These chara cters are unique and orig
inal and bear striking analogies to each
other-the most important of which is
their self dedication to truth. III.
They may be called the guide posts Of
civilization, and may be named as, Christ,
Socrates, Luther and Lincoln. It is about
the latter that William Eleroy Curtis has
written under the title, ''The True Abra-
The story Of Lincoln is always absorb
ing and full of human interest. The vol
umes which have been written about him
would stock a library of large dimensions
which surpass in arrangement Of literary
detail, Mr.: Curtis publication. De NOR
tuis nil nisi bonum'' has exerted such a
that it's literature fails to throw much
light upon many of the eminent careers
of distinguished statesmen and soldiers.
Mr.. Curtis, however, writes in natural
manner about a natural man. and does
not fail to remind us that Mr.. Lincoln
had faults, as a youth, and as man.
These faults, however, serve as a strik
ing contrast to the sublim1ty OF his char
acter, which had been attained before
his assassination.
The illustrations are profuse and some
of them appear for the first time in a
published biography of the Great Emanci-
pator's life.
Lincoln, the Leader of the Springfield
traces his intellectual development, from
that of the average pioneer, upward and
onward until he became a pleader Of such
striking power and force as to easily sur
pass in the. logical presentation Of his
cases men who had been trained in in
stitutions of higher education
"The occasion upon which Lincoln dis
played unusual power as an orator was
the bloomington Convention for TT the or
Completely electrified by human speech:
The Convention, which was composed Of
aa ad6aa e of name a RStfS Rass hs
taken extreme grounds against slavery
and HAD launched a new political organi-'
zation; but it contained many d1sGord-
ant, envious and hostile elements. Those
who had watched the proceedings were
anxious and apprehensive of dfssention
and jealousy, and Lincoln, with his acute
perhaps; PERHAPS more no keeaiy than any other man
in the assembly He. saw before him
group of earnest, Jealous, sincere men;
willing to make tremendous sacrlnces @
and undertake Titanic tasks, but at the
same time most of them chung to their
own theories and advocated their indi-
vidual methods with a tenacity that
promised to defeat their common purpose.
Therefore, when he arose in response to-
the unanimous demand for speech from
the great orator Of Springfield, his soul
was flooded with, a desire and a. purpose nI* *,;
0tic emotions of his associates.
Those who were present say that at
first he spoke slowly, cautiously, and in
in force and intensity until he swept the
discordant souls of the assembly together
and his hearers 'arOse from: their chairs
with pale faces and auiverdng III lips and ard
pressed uncOnS clOuSly towards n1m. his
influence was irresistible
THE REAL BENEDICT ARNOLD. >
The Real Benedict Arnold. By Charles
Burr Todd, author of ':The True Aaron
Burr 12mo aCloth. illustrated; net, $1.20.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co.
The ''reap' and true people seem to
have the front of the stage just now.
An unpleasant impression has prevailed
in many quarters that Bened1ct Arnoio
ices to his country were ignored ana ms
great fault was not over-emphas1zed per-
haps but unreasonably punished: Ireafha en-
is not to be condoned IN any wise. There
may be, however, certain clrcumstances
which explain the deed and gmOdlty stne
bitter condemnation i y .A
While not condoning Arnold's treason,
Mr.. Todd emphasizes his invaluable sery-
ices to America, and shows conclusively
that he four times saved the cause OF the
kGieai fsland on Lake Lake champlain (the first naval
battle, by the way, in which our arms
were engaged, where by his iS,ol desperate 3,sc1t
va1or he the suGn arms fat
they gave up their plan Of invasion from
the north that year; second, by raising
the siege Of Fort Stanwix~ in the Mohawk
Invading army marching to aid Burgoyne,
and third and fourth by winning the two
battles of Saratoga, which, conjoined,
Cressy included as one OF the htteen de-
cisive battles of the world.
Mr.. Todd also shows that it was the
influence of Arnold's wife and his fear
of losing her should her treasonable cor
respondence with the Br1tlsh omcers pe
tray tray his country, and not the gross in.
Justice Of Congress nor the calamities of
paper generalsLths motives ,,agns generally any
UNIQUE contribution to revolutionary his
tory. The illustrations are interesting
and instructive; especially noteworthy is
the repr9duetion Of an rno,d p1o Plnt ;n egy
=. AS death drew near; it is. said his mind
wandered, and he was again IN America:
fighting his battles with ash1ngton, ana
teryal he asked that his Continental ,uni-
escaped t9. ed to tl the .Nuiture and which he.
had ever, cherished might be brought and
knots which Washington had given him
1"I.et me die in my old American uni-
form he he said, '.the uniform in which,
/ fought my battles. God forgive me-"
he added, '.for ever putting on any
other.'' ss. :: - =. *s So.
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! Pictures Of Swedish Life; or Svea and
her Children BY Mrs. Woods Baker.
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This is beautifully printed and elab-