The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

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| many years study and contact with the
leading men of those stirring times.
Vol: II opens OF ms with chapter on 1.-The
I'm the history of nations weak rulers are
treated with scant respect. They become
the dupes Of Knaves,f the instrument of
| invite disorders to enter in; they are the
real enemies to human progress. When
Mr.. Buchanan was brought face to face
the Union and overthrow the government,
he construed the fundamental law to be
as impotent as he was in fact as the ex
ecutive. Imagine Andrew jackson, the
executive head of the government in
| 1S60-61. Would members Of CONGRESS en-
gagged in the work of disunion have been
welcomed at the White House? Would
they have bullied him -
! ORGANIZED LABOR.
PIP: 4ee with 4s full-page illustrations.
and Bible House.
What particularly impresses the reader
OF, this book is the broad grasp which Mr..
Mitchell has asst shown Mr. Mitchell al,
probably the greatest leader which or
ganized labor has had in this country,
Still attempts to take up the problem from
the point of view Of the patriotic citizen.
public. MI. Mitchell does not shirk the
discussion of the weak points OF labor or
CARNATIONS, and is especially eloquent in
| his pronunciation of violence in strikes.
There are number Of, chapters taking up
the arguments against Trade Unionism as
well as proposed plans for benefiting the
| takes up in detail the question of strikes
| and proposes method by which they may
be prevented, or at least minimized.
There are half a dozen chapters deal
ing with the coal strike of 1902 giving the
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Mitchell states that at the beginning of
August the strike was about to collapse,
and Sda that IT, energetic action had not been
strike would have been lost. The inside
| history of the strike and the story of how
victory was snatched from defeat is told
In a graphic and eloquent manner by the
! author.
MONEY, BANKING, AND FINANCE.
BolleS's Money: Banking and Finance.
Aytn aOs OF 6Gs B Rh R LII Ba Dix
Officers ETC., and Lecturer in the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania and Haverford
College: Cloth, 12mo, s36 pages. Price,
York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
This volume, while designed especially
as textbook for Commercial High
Schools and the, Commercial Courses Of
reader. It is a brief, practical treatise
on the Theory of Money, the Practice
and ard usagss Of Ban ;kj and the Prinei-
the best banking practice of the day. and
the topics taken up: This is the first
Of its ng { ha Racf
ing and works on the theory and history
Of money and banking: DR.. Bolles is an
authority on the subject. and presents
concise manner. This book. will appeal
alike to those who intend to devote
themselves to the business of banking, to
those who are thus engaged. and to
theories of banking.
CIVIL WAR TIMES
Civil War Times. BY Daniel Wait
7o~e n author la1 Of the Rsptan
Merrill Co.
The war Of '61-5 will never cease-at
least in the present generation 1; to j. be e,
sorhirs interest. This is So because it
was a war Of giants; because many OF
those giants still survive it's vicissitudes ;
n ne ' deadly breach its long and dread
full marches; its Gatysburgzzand sGhicka-
/ maugas; because THE finale Of that con-
of the world; because it's echoes still re-
vertebrate in all the various activities OF
American life. =
Because of these things the author S
volume il Interesting It can be read
with prof: by any one and many incl
dents of the great 1trife which has hith-
erto remained unwritten, is brought forth
| by Mr.. Howe. =
One Of the most: interesting chapters
in the volume is one dealing with the re-
lation of the Cpnfederacy toward the NE
gro Soldier" The author tells us, that
nearly every important Confederate com
mandIr favored the enlistment of black
soldiers; that the matter was finally de-
bated ir the Confederate Senate, and the
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that of Senator Hunter. That when the
desperate circumstances Of the Confed-
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:
I This chapter is especially interesting at
this time in view of the present propa-
| the Negro, whom they were per. ectly
willing in the last desperate strait OF
the, Confederacy, to enlist as soldier,
under it's 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.
THE M1LL1oNA1RE's SON.
son Brown, author Of ''The immortal
Ca ne Mona 5Gsen sd Ran1 the Esf sses
novel by Anna Robson Brown, is the
story Of young mans bitter struggle to
! choose between the material advantages
of wealth, questionably obtained and o.
| tentatiously spent, and the higher claims
| Of thought and social service. The book
! is study in temperament and heredity,
and a brilliant satire on social conditions
| in America. 1t is, however, first of all, an
skill and concentration. The reader is
promptly caught in, the current of the
plot, and never released until: the: final
ragraph is reached, The. central situa- ::
ton on which the story turns is one Of
the most novel and original in modern
fiction. There is a large gallery Of Well
drawn portraits, including that Of Alexa,
Fielding, the heroine, who overhows with
vitality and feminine charm, and of Paul
character is drawn~with great insight and
sympathy. The novel is illustrated with
full-page drawings, by A. E. Becher.
MORE FIVE MINUTE STORIES.
More Five Minute Stories: Illustrated
by Wallace Goldsmith. Cloth square
12mo. Net 81. Boston: Dana Estes &
Co. 49,.
The second volume of the successful
series of Five Minute Stories. A note
worthy collection of short tales for chill
dren, which will prove as popular with
mothers as with boys and girls: A re-
| viewer in PRIMARY EDUCATION, writ
ing of the first series, stated, with truth:
! 1.-The children, have found assfairy god
mother for storytelling in this famous
author, who never seems to hnd the end
of her resources for making the little
ones happy" The publishers can assure