The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21
| DARE Do ALL THAT MAY
BECOME A MAN, SAID VEST
DR.. kingsbury Writes Approximately of the Dead Sem
ator. Some of the Worlds Best Books.
Losses in Boer War.

Alas! alas! the genial, noble. able,
eloquent, accomplished ex-United
States Senator. George Graham Vest,
Is dead. If there was one Senator
above all others since our own great
Senator Vance closed his earthly
career, for whom l cherished a higher
and more tender regard, it was this
rarely gifted native son of Kentucky,
and it has had no truer, better, great
er example of a man, than he who has
Just departed and entered upon the
eternal beyond. l hope he died in
peace and hope OF a blissful resurrec-
ton to eternal life. l really admire
nm greatly, and among Americans of
the last forty years as one of the
cholce and master spirits of this age"
AS L understand him, he was of most
engaging character and 'open as the
day. a man to confide in, to get near
to, to follow with assurance OF. safety
and right, man of reading, of utmost
sincerity and purity, of diScernment,
OF unyielding devotion to what he
held to be right and just and true, a
1lne speaker whose "copiouS accents
Tell with easy art one of those con-
summate men of a period who stand
out as landmarks and guides, who
think most, feel the noblest act the
BEST 1t was a very genuine pleasure
TO me to read his delightful, frank,
Kind, sympathetic sketches of many of
ms leading contemporaries in the
North and of both parties. There was
nothing little in Senator Vest, but a
vast deal to praise and cherish who
always could say to an assembled
world:
Il dare do all that may become a
man.
He was born at Frankfort, KY,
in 1880. He was in the Federal Sem
ate for many years, and only retired
when his health had failed him. He
was also in the Confederate Congress.
He Went to his adopted State, Missouri.
in 1858, when but twenty three, and
soon attracted the attention of the
people. l regret most sincerely that
the South is to lose forever his SER
vices his fidelity to honor, his devo-
ton to principle, his true Southern
manhood, his lofty example, his wis.,
dom, his commanding intellectual
powers. In a little while he will be
followed by several of the foremost
men in the South who are true South
erners and true patriots In death
may they find the crown of life"
The important standard English
Dictionary l lately referred to in the
News and Observer is Stormonih,
wrote it. 1t appeared as Stornmonth.
We must have that spelling right for
it is a work that every Southern man
of intelligence should own if he would
see how the English language is pro-
nounced in the land OF our fathers,
and among the scholars and men of
letters. / have not used any othes
work for pronunciation since L obtain
ed in it 1885 1t is re-published in
this country by the Harpers, and the
price is Sc copy.
/ notice. in the News and Observer
of eth inst, brief notice of new
Southern book that from its title
would indicate that it is not without
interest ana Importance to Southern
readers of the present generation that
so needs to be Informed as to queS-
ton originating prior TO the war, In
the war, and since the war. 1t is call
ed Northern Rebellion and Southern
Secession and it is aptly n'.med. Ii
is by E. w. r. Ewing LII. of Rich
mond Va. DR.. BIedsoe settled the
question of the South's right to Seceds
or withdraw from the compact into
which it had entered, and so complete
w that no Northern rebel or enemy OF
the South has ever dared to seriously
attempt
the scheme OF the book, as given by
my fried, Prof. Charles Lee Smith.
Professor of History and Political
Science in William Jewell College. Mis-,
souri, where he has served for perhaps
a dozen years, it covers a wide neio
and is to be welcomed as another aid in
the clarifying the clouds of history
and driving out the spolltlcal logs aho
miasma from the northern mind
Prof. Smith is a native of Granville
county, n. c., was graduated first al
Wake Forest College, with honors
and attended Johns Hopkins UnlVer-
sity for some years. and was felloW.
lecturer. Some years ago l nollcea az
length his very valuable history Oh
Education in North Carolina in the
Eighteenth Century"
AS mentioned by me recently num-
Der of English literary men through
the last twenty years perhaps, nave
been making out the Best hundred
Books and some with a less number.
Men differ in their scope of reading
and in taste also even among the
really cultured. The News and Obser-
YER but the other day gave the "Twen-
ty-five Best works as given by Kew.
DR.. Gregory, of whom l never heard,
in the yellow paper, the New York
American. His selections will prob
ably strike many as excellent Whlle
others would drop some and substitute
others. If 1 were to limit myself to
Twenty-Five novels as the best of all
/ would make several changes un-
questionably. l think l would accept
the following, as given by DR.. Gregory:
Don Quixote'-Cerventes
Lies Miserables'-Victor Hugo.
'Tristram Shandy''-Sterne.
1.-The Vicar of Wakefield'-'Gold'
smith.
"Pilgrim's Progress ''-Bunyan.
'.Robinson Crusoe''-De Foe.
1.-THE Wandering Jew'-Eugene
Sue.
"Cil Blas'-Le Sage.
"Ten Thousand Year"-Warren
Then l would change as follows:
1.-The Antiquary"-Scott.
"Ivanhoe"-Scott.
Heart of Midlothian''-Scott.
~ "Kenilworth"-Scot
David Copperfeld' Dickens
Martin zlewit''-Dickens.
"Pickwick Papers'-Dickens.
Scarlet Letter"-Hawthorne
Vanity Fair'-Thackeray.
Henry Esmond''-Thackeray
f'WpStWard HO''--Ctbarlac Kingsley