Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-24

cause he was fervent champion Of the
national bank AS matter of fact. he
was wabbly the subject, voting as a
rule against Benton's specie standard,
which Is today the law of the land. HIS
first great speech In the Senate was against
the bank
TT is sometimes assumed that he was
the real father Of the law to give the
settler on the public lands free, or very
cheap title. In reality he was usually on
the opposite side, demanding big prices,
but offering the surplus as largess to the
states.
1T is well known that he was the per-
sonal objugator of slavery and politically
opposed to it's extension The acts he
fathered originated show that he con-
consciously helped extend the institution
to which he was so conscentiously opposed.
He was not always moral hero, though a
courageous man.
He is called the great compromises or pa
cificator. Yet some of his measures were
surrenders. and his last great stand was
simply the precursor of civil war which
was STAYED off until it became more
deadly"
Mr. Rogers continues his analysis of de-
tails. showing the truth or falsty of many
anecdotes of Clay and relating several that
virtually new, in their illustration Oh
the mans true character. The book thds
prepared makes an instructive commentary
upon the period of agitation which pfs-
coded the sectional warfare.
MY FIFTEEN LOST YEARS; Mrs Maybrick's
own Story BY Florence Elizabeth Maybrick
New York Funk & Wagnals Company
When Mrs. Maybrick landed these
shores after her release from the English
prison. where she had been confined for
nearly fifteen years for the crime of MUIR
dering her husband, of which she was found
guilty, her natural inclination was to shrink
from public view and to enjoy as far as
possible the sweets of liberty and yet of
secIusion. But it was also natural that
the public should want to hear her story
and that firm of publishers should imme-
diately urge her to begin its writing. She
yielded to the request from double mo-
tive to set her own side of the celebrated
case before the people Of the United States,
who have been her steadfast friends
throughout her trouble, and to earn by her
pen a sufficient fund to make her more or
less independent henceforth
The book Is a vitality interesting human
document. 1t tells the story of Mrs. May
bricks prison life with exceptional clear
ness and directness and yet with a GER
tain subtlety Of touch which is beyond
exact analysis. The woman's dreadful ex-
perience has evidently given her new
sense of realization which her words can
constantly brought almost to the point of
statement She herself notes the para
Lying effect of prison life upon her vo-
cabulary. During her months of solitary
confinement, when silence was enjoined
by the prison rules, she found herself re-
Numbering words with the greatest diff
Guilty, and she says that less than one
hundred words suffice for all the needs of
a person in that condition.
Despite this handicap, Mrs. Maybrick's
story flows easily and gracefully, and,
what is more, convincingly. 1t is difficult
to read it, whatever may be the precon-
ceptions of the reader without feeling
that Mrs. Maybrick is an innocent woman
She divides her book into two parts in
one or which she treats of her impriSon-
ment, its effects upon herself and her eX-
periences and reflections as a prisoner. In
the second part are set forth the legal
aspects of her case, a statement of the
efforts to secure her release and com
ments upon the evidence upon which she
was convicted.
In concluding her personal story Mrs.
sight of the Statue of Liberty I, perhaps
more than any one on board, realized the
full meaning of that word liberty and |
felt my heart stirred to it's depths at the
memory of what all my countrymen and
countrywomen had done for me during
the dark days of my past to prove that
they still carried me in their hearts
though the great ocean rolled between
anu tHdt Hdu not Deen rODDed or the
high privilege of being an American citi-
zen.
a time will come when the world will
be forced to acknowledge the verdict
which was passed upon me Is untenable
But what then? Who shall give back the
years 1 have spent within prison walls;
the friends by whom am forgotten; the
children to whom 1 am dead; the sun
shire; the winds of heaven; my woman's
life, and all 1 have lost by this terrible
injustice? Time may heal the deepest
wounds when the balm of love and SYM
pathy is poured into them. 1t is well; for
IL mental wounds proved as fatal as those
of the body the prison death roll would
be long one"
A pathetic feature of the case is sup
piled in foot-note following the matter
gust quoted, In the course of which Mrs.
Maybrick explains the negotiations be-
tween her counsel and her husbands fam
lily regarding her two children, whom she
has never been allowed to see since her
arrest. NOT even their recent photographs
have been sent to her.
THE REGIONS OF THE WORLD; Edited by Fl. ]
Mackinder-INDIA. By Colonel Sir Thomas
Ilungerford Holdch, K.C.M.G KCIE.. C,B.
RE, late superintendent survey of India. With
maps and diagrams. New York: D. Appleton
Co.
Geographically. as racially and officially
there is no more important or interesting
study than India. with it's remarkable con-
formation. Its peculiarities of climate and
It's contrasts of plain and mountain This
member of the series of Regions works
IS commensurately exhaustive in detail, all
though, as the author states, 1t Is by no
means forbiddingly statistical, the figures
Incidental to such a review of geological
end geographical and other physical condi-
tons being briefed as far as possible and
grouped In notes preceding each chapter.
THE TRAGEDIE OF JULIUS CAESAR. BY Will
lam Shakespeare. Edited, with notes. fntroiuc-
ton, glossary. list of variorium readings and
selected criticism, by Charlotte Porter and
Helen A. Clarke. New York: Thomas Y
Crowell Co.
These Issues of the first folio prints of
Shakespeare's plays have attracted wide
notice among students of Shakespearean
lore. for they have put to hand at slight
cost convenient reprints in modern type.
Of the text of 1923. The reader is enabled,
by Following the notes and textual changes.
TO see the gradual process of differentiation
through which these plays have passed in
the course of critical editing.
CHARMS; Old World Sensation By the Earl
OF lddesieigh, author Of Luck of Lassendale ~
New York: John Lane.
The reign of George II of England has
rot been much used by writer's of fiction,
for the reason that it was not a picturesque
period, but one of rather inconspicuous
dullness The monarch himself was a
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