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HISTORY OF THE COMMUNE OF 1871.
History of the Commune of 1871.
Translated from the French of Lissagaray
by Eleanor Marx Aveling, New York:
International Publishing Co.
translated from the French of Lissagaray
by Eleanor Marx Aveling, is a we'll writ
ten volume of history, dealing with one OF
those political commissions which have so
frequently shook France to its founda-
TONS
The translator has performed the diff
cult art of preserving the peculiar cpl
glammatic and pointed style of all French
prose, and of which .LissaSaray appears
to be a master. ~
The descriptive art of the author never
lags from the opening to the closing
chapter of this book of extraordinary
happenings.
The Commune of 1871 was the culmina-
ton of French weakness and imbecility-
the elimination of a criminal torpor that
rested upon those in authority, and which
followed swiftly upon the heels of the
prostration of the French by the wonder
jul armies under that prince of military
strategists Won Moltke. =
In reading certain chapters of this book
one might easily imagine that the revolt
ing cruelties Of the Revolution We're again
being enacted in Paris and elsewhere
throughout the country.
The events which led up to the war
with Germany are thus described by the
author:
bismarck prepared the war. Napoleon
III. wanted it. the great bourgeoise looked
on They might have stopped it by an
earnest gesture. M. Theirs contented
himself with a grimace. He saw in this
war our certain ruin; he knew our terrible
inferiority in everything; he could have
united the Left, the tiers parti, the jour
nalists have made palpable to them the
folly Of the attack and supported by this
strength il of opinions: have said to the
Tuileriesa TO Paris + needs. be; "War is
SON.. -.
Poor France! Who will save thee?
The humble, the poor, those who for six
while the upper classes sell the nation
for few hours of rest, and the liberals
seek to feather their nests under the
empire, a handful Of men. without arms,
unDTOlecleu, rise up dSdlIlSI Tic Sill dll-
powerful despot.: On the one hand young
men &wflo form the bourgeoise have gone
over to the people. faithful children OF
1889, resolved to continue the work of
ingmen unite for the study and conquest
of the rights of labor. In vain the en-
pire attempts to split their forces, to Sc
duce the workingmen.'
scription of the terrific political struggle
between the contending factions which
finally burst forth in all the horrors Of the
Commune.
Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse and MARION
were soon to be converted into veritabEe
human slaughter houses, in this fratricidal
struggle which for madness and I'M
checked violence finds few counterparts
in the history of the human family
Many new events--that is events which
nave hitherto been obscure to the student
of that period are brought forward by the
author, in his work which considered
point is an achievement of no inconsid-
cradle merit.
CIVIL WAR TIMES. -
Civil War Times. BY Daniel. Walt
Howe. author of the Puritan Republic.
8 vo II; Pr 421. $3.50, Indianapolis: Dobbs-
The war of '61-5 will never cease-at
least in the present generation to be a
perennial and never failing topic OF abb
was I. war of giants; because many OF
those giants still survive its yieissitudes:
its hair breadth escapes, and che !mmf-
nent deadly breach: its long and dread
maugas; because the finale Of that con-
hict profoundly influenced the civilizations
of the world; because it's echoes still re-
Vertebrate in all the various activities OF
Because Of these things the authors
volume Is interesting. 1t can be read
with prof: by any one and many incl
erto remained unwritten, is brought forth
one Of the most interesting chapters
in the volume is one dealing with the re-
lation Of the Confederacy toward the Ne
gre Soldier The author tells us, that
nearly every important Confederate com
mander favored the enlistment Of black
s. tia that the matter na any d fhe
bill author iIin2 the enlistment OF Negro
soldiers. was defeated by but one vote
that Of Senator Hunter. That when the
eracy became so visible that the leaders
saw the doom Of Richmond and the
cause" draft order was issued to force
the black soldier to fight under the Con
made effective, the fall Of Richmond, and
the flight Of Jefferson Davis was at hand.
This chapter is espe cial1y interesting at
ganda of the Southern people, to debase
the Negro, whom they were per. ectly
willing in. the last desperate, strait. Of
the Confederacy. to enlist as soldier,
under its banner. -. ~
There are other very interesting chap
ters in the book. The style is clear. unin-
volved and natural, and the author has
written instructively. >r.r=E. = IS q
BANKING, AND FINANCE.
BoIIes's, Money. Banking and Finance.
BY Albert S. Bolles, PHI! D.. LII: D..
Author of Practical Banking 'Bank
Officers etc. and Lecturer in the Uni
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College Cloth 12mo, 1856 pages. Price,
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This volume, while designed especially
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-eader. It is a brief, practical treatise
On the Theory of Money, the Practice
md Usages of Banking, and the Pr1ne1-
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he best banking practice OF the day, and
adds those legal principles which refer to
he topics taken up. This Is the first
book of its scope, filling a place petWeen
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If money and banking. Dr. BOHes IS an
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