The Appeal., 1904-09-24


! "History of the Commune of 1S71,'
i translated from the French of Lissagaray
! by Eleanor Marx Aveling, is a well writ
! ten volume of history dealing with one Of
! those political commissions which have SO
| frequently shook France to it's founda-
!! tions. ''
The translator has performed the diff
cult art Of preserving the peculiar cpl
gramnatic and pointed style Of all French
prose, and of which Lissagaray appears
| to be master
The descriptive art of the author never
| lags from the opening to the closing
chapter of this book of extraordinary
| happenings.
| tion of French weakness and imbecility-
! the culminat ton of a criminal tOrpOr that
rested upon those in authority, and which
followed swiftly upon the heels EEL of the
full armies under that prince of military
strategists Won Moltke.
In reading certain chapters of this book
ght easily 81 agme that era the revo
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
himself with a grimace. He saw in this
war our certain ruin; he knew our terrible
inferiority in everything; he could have
nalists have made palpable to them the
| folly of the attack, and supported by this
strength of opinion, have said to the
Tuileries, to Paris if needs be, "War is
| impossible; we shall combat it as trea-
"Poor France! Who will save thee?
The humble, the poor, those who for six
years contended for thee with the Empire
while the upper classes sell the nation
| for few hours of rest, and the liberals
seek to feather their nests. under the
empire, handful of men, without a arms m,
| powerful despot On the one hand young
men who form the bourgeoise have gone
over to the people, faithful children OF
the Revolution; on the other hand work
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 worl1ingmen."
! The author then follows up with de-
scription of the terrific political struggle
between the contending factions which
finally burst forth in all the horrors of the
Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse and Narbon
| we're soon to be converted into ver1tabIe
human slaughter houses, in this fratricidal
| checked violence finds few counterparts
in the history of the human family.
Many new events--that is events which
| Of that period are brought forward by the
! author in his work which considered
| either from literary or historical view
| point is an achievement of no incOnsld-
| erable merit.
MONEY. BANKING, AND FINANCE.
Bolles's Money. Banking and Finance.
Aythor Ay a!0ef' OF "Praetica aaS Bankihg, sam RanG
| Ohicers;S' etc. and Lecturer in the I'm,
College. Cloth, 12mo, 1856 pages. Price,
! sl25. American Book Company, New
York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
This volume, while designed especially
Schools and the Commercial Courses of
| Colleges, is equally suited for the general
reader. It is brief, practical ire treatise @ti
the Theory of Of and the Pnc
ples of Finance. The author describes
the best banking practice of the day, and
adds those legal principeS i whe i; re He1ef fr to
treatises on methods Of bank bookkeep-
ing and works on the theory and history
Of money and banking: Or. bolles Is az ~
| the essential principles in a clear and
concise manner. This book will appeal
alike to those who intend to devote
| themselves
those who are thus engaged, and to
those who are studying the history ana
theories cf-banhing.
! HENRY WARD ;BEECHER.
Henry Ward Beecher BY Lyman lA Ab.
bott s1.75. Boston and New YORK:
Dr. Abbott made the acquaintance OF
Beecher in 1854, and was a close and inti-
mate friend of his from that time forward.
He attended ed Pr +bns We oEaed to
+! give an outline of the character of the
great preacher The book is therefore
not so much history ~ OF Of tn the ,;fa fe an% o5
| character as he appeared to DR.. ABBOTT.
The career of Beecher as an antl-slavery
reformer before and during the civil W war
period, he tells in five chapters, tuil e. o.
especial Importance is the chapter on Mr..
Beecher's anti-slavery campaign in Eng
land in 1868. He reached London in the
autumn Of that year from season on the
continent, his intention being to rest be-
fore sailing for New York. But fate Or
dered otherwise. At that time the SYM;
ccially the aristocratic and moneyed class
| es was overwhelmingly in favor Of the
/ South. and the man who dared to speak
in behalf Of, the American cause was
| sure to invite every species of insult and
| indignity.'' This sympathy for the South
and hatred Of the North had, at the time
| of Mr.. BeecherS arrival, assumed alarm
ing proportions, and rumors were afioat
to the effect that the British government,
in all probability would be forced by pub
lie sentiment 20 intervene in the struggle
then going forward in America in behalf
of the South. Such was the state of feel
ing when DR.. Beechep reached England.
The Americans residing in London were,
of course, greatly alarmed over such a
prospect ana after much, trouble, per-
suaded DR.. Beecher to make a lecturing
tour through England, speaking in behalf
Of the Federal cause. By this they hoped
to counteract the work Of agents of the
Confereracy who were then seduously fam
ming the fame of British enm1ty by their