The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-19

DR.. kingsbury's Letter

appeared three times in the Roster THIS
two newspapers | edited m tins city Tor
nearly twenty six years show that
urged some fifteen or more years sincc
that the Roster bc ovcrhauitca AZ once
during the life Of large number of mem
who served. but have since passed over
the river | mentioned that there was
worthy brother journalist IN this town
still living. / am glad 10 say, whose name
was caused by his beng Transferred from
Cue arm OF the service 10 another ani
tins occurred twice IT Is fair TO say
that the corrected Roster will show IeG
COO names. That monumental work. IN
five handsome octavos. the History OF
North Carolina Regiments" which owes
It's existence 10 the foresight. lndomitahc
industry. capacity and noble patriotism
OF Chief Justice Walter Clark. OF the su
preme Court, no doubt justih,s the claim
OF fully l26 900 soldiers for North Carolina
IN the tremendous. prolonged conflict be
tween the South and North n the great
est war for Independence that was ever
waged on the globe. Since preparing tins
/ have seen the figures for Fdgccombe
county gwen by cxJudge Philips 1t con
! trIbuted 2,4l6 soldiers out oil a total OF
whites numbering 9.554 The highest vote
was in 1860, ,SSi votes. This l. grand
! showing.
Chief Justice Walter Clark's excellent
paper IN the Boston Arena attracts At.
tontion in the North 1t ~ hike all he
writes-clear, carefully prepared. and in
structive. He sets forth tersely aud lu-
cidly the changes that have been wrought
ia constitutional and statute law IN this
| country and (.rpat RrItatu Same nj IN.
changes are most noteworthy and may
| be described az progressive Concerning
the criminal law. labor legislation the
! protection and favor TO married women.
etc, the many changes tend to real ad-
vancement The criminal legislation has
been disgraceful and truly injurious. So
Is the late legislation in North Carolina
as to divorce.
Many useful and some able works have
been published lately. One is entitled
Recent European History 1789-l900." 1t
IS small volume and textbook for
high schools and colleges. 1t Il by Presi-
dent G. E. Fellows, OF University OF
Maine.
Dr.. Charles b. Gulick, OF Harvard Uni
veIsity. has an Illustrated volume on The
Life OF the Ancient Greeks" 1t l. not
personal, domestic hfc--what they did,
how they lived, what they fed upon and
wore, etc Still another book about the
Greeks oil antiquity. is entitled THE
Story OF Athens, and IS from the pen or
| II. {. Butler. 1t Is a view OF the peo-
pie, the greatest, most gifted. most ar
tlstIc OF all nations. 1t said to be Of
real value and desirable for the library.
The late Dean Farrar, Of England, who
died recently of paralysis was a lovablc,
genial, highly gifted man a superior
preacher a charming writer brave
fighter for what he believed. He was not
orthodox but sincere and was staunch
unfalterng opponent of drunkenness, to
which the English are so much addicted
He wrote two really valuable and most
interesting works, the Life OF Christ.
and the Life of St Paul" They are
charming works full Of instruction and
beauty as l found them. He and the
great Nonconformist preacher of Eng
land Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, OF Lon
don, who passed away few weeks since,
were of the highest contemporary rank.
men OF marked influence and distinction,
and superbly endowed.
Mr.. Sidney Lee, the admirable and dis
tingushed English biographer, has been
| iecturng In this country. His famous
book on Shakespeare, which all Shakes
peareans should read, and his admirable
life OF the late Queen Victoria have given
him deserved fame. The New York Re
view OF Reviews refers to him ~ the
biographer par excellence among modern
Englshmen." l have read only a part
OF his very admirable life OF the beloved
Queen, but what | have read much inn
pressed me for It's candor, its sympathy.
-.
is not a fulsome eulogy, but a calm, *
act. pains taking portraiture Of very
uncommon Queen and pure, true woman.
The illustrious John Wcsley's bi-centcn
ary celebration is hele around the world
this year He left a private journal"
of real value and interest. 1t has been
long published. single volume OF sc-
lcctions from it has just been issued, and
il has an article by that gifted English
critic, author OF tObiter DIcta,' and 9TH
er volumes of genuine interest. He writes
AN appreciation" and the late Rev. Hugh
Price Hughes prepared the introduction.
II is a timely publication. when Wesley
wrote that journal" the very great
| ecclesiastical statesman and man Of great
learning, known perhaps TO only two
or three millions OF people, and the people
called "Methodists" could be counted By
only some one hundred thousand or so
Now his name is in all the great English
histories. He is the theme often OF dis
eliminating, liberal divines and laymen in
other denominations, his great learning
and abilities are duly recognized, and the
members and sympathisers Of Methodsm
now are more than $4,000, 600, / suppose.
II has in New York the largest Publish
ing House in America, and perhaps In the
world and the largest by great odds III
| the South.
l lay before the reader some instruc-
tive facts and statistics. In 1880 alcohollc
beverages consumed IN the United States
were 1009 gallons to each person Now
the consumption is nearly double or 1874
gallons per capita. Here Is a positive in
crease in the guzzling habit-an execrable
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