The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

produce a great book on this department
of psychology.
For all time DR.. Dabney will be re-
garded as the best type of the old-fashion-
ed scholarly Southern preacher and teach
er. He illustrated IN his public and pri-
vate life the best Southern character
Whether as teacher, preacher, writer, or
debater, he ranked with the most emin-
ent men of his age. He had sanctified
common sense, lofty and pure patriotism,
love of home and love of God-and his
biographer has written of him in such
way as to make the reader feel to thank
God that the South was blessed with his
long and inspiring leadership. His last
days were made happy by the knowledge
that his children had justified his ambi-
ton for them. One of them, DR.. Charles
w. Dabney, once a resident of Raleigh,
has recently been called to the presidency
of the University of Cincinnati, and fol-
lows in the footsteps of his distinguish
ed father, as an educational leader of his
day and generation.
TUCKAHOE-An Old Fashioned Story
of an Old Fashioned People, by Joseph
William Eggleston. Publishers: The
Neale Publishing Company, New York
and Washington.
Virginians east of the Blue Ridge in
olden times were called 'Tuckahoes' and
those west "Cohees antiquarians
do not now know. The region east of
the Blue Ridge was peopled almost eX-
clusively by English immigration and was
under the domination of the descendants
of the birth proud Cavaliers. The Valley
of Virginia was filled with a hardy, stall
wart people of Dutch origin, coming
down from Pennsylvania, together with
considerable number of Scotch-Irish.
Both of these latter peoples were prac-
tically one in religion and sympathy. The
antagonsm in early colonial days was
very natural between them and the
Church of England aristocrats east of the
Blue Ridge. Cohees and Tuckahoes were
never fused into one people until after
they had fought side by side for their
common liberty. At the date of this
story nothing of this old feud remained
but the appellations each used toward
the other, and even the origin had been
forgotten. The story is old-fashioned in
its faithful delineation of an old-fashloned
peopie-people who loved virtue and puri-
w and were ready TO die to preserve
their honor and advance their principles.
1t is racy of the soil, giving a picture
of old Southern conditions that illustrate
the best OF Southern character 1t is a
story that holds your interest from first
to last. There is plenty of color, Incl
dent, life-for those old fashioned folks
lived lives far from dull or tame. The
heroine was named Polly-not Polite
but she spelt it with a ''y'- and she
lived in day before the ''ies' made us
lose Polly and Sally and Mary The
hero was every inch man. 1t is good
thing to read about such flesh and blood
peopie-folks who had the virtues that
are found in the best rnen and women
of every age no matter how the environ
ment and fashion change Mr.. Eggleston
has drawn a picture that is true to life:
it is not realistic in the Rowells sense; it
is true and it is full of action and full
of interest from the preface to the time
when they were married and lived hap
PLY ever afterwards
MY FRIEND PROSPERO, novel by
Ha0r1, IJarIand author of 'HThe Cardi.