The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
LITTLE TRAITOR TO THE SOUTH
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= LII LIE IhAlIOR III THE SOUTH,
by Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady. Illus
trated. Price $3.50. Publishers. The
Macmillan Company New York.
TINS does not claim to be a historical
novel, but it is graphic picture of pan
oramic events IN the War Between the
States drawn in Brady's best style. 1t
is in tact the best thing ne has given
10 the public In his charming stories
In style it is almost perfect. There is
not dull or heavy line in it, The action
IS steady, at times quick and tense, and
there are incidents that make the blood
ungle. 1t Is a civil war tale-and a well
told tale, too-about the daughter of the
admiral of the Yankee flagship, her two
Southern lovers and a torpedo boat.
Doesn't that suggest plot, action, in
cident, dramatic events enough for a
skilled hand to make an absorbingly in
teresting story? That's exactly what
Mr.. Brady has done in "a Little Traitor
to the South
by Dwight Tilton announced by the C. M.
Clark Publishing Compony of Boston. is
said to be a story of powerful plot
Astounding in strong situations.
of novel that Rev. ]. ]. Douglass, of
North Carolina, is writing. 1t will be
essentially a Southern story with the
scenes laid on the Pee Dee.
Of special interest among the March
Century's illustrations will be full-page re-
productions of three famous singers from
daguerreotypes by Richards of Philadel-
phia: Jenny Lind at the age of thirty;
Catherine Hayes, the famous contralto,
at the age of twenty-six; and Adelina
Patti at the age of fourteen, the latter
especially quaint.
Judge Womack, of Raleigh, will short
ly issue his new book, 1.-The Law of
Private Corporations of North Carolina"
He has published three valuable volumes.
1.-The North Carolina Digest" and will
shortly publish a fourth. His book on
Private Corporations will be valuable
addition to every lawyers library and it
will be valuable also to all business men.
RolIo Ogden, editor of the New York
Evening Post, has prepared for the
March Century an essay on 1.-THE Making
of Public Opinion" the discussion being
thrown into the form of a lunch-table
talk between a senator, college presi-
dent, a doctor of divinity, and an editor,
in which there is a good deal of genial
recrimination, if so harsh word may
be used.
The Century Company publishes
Helen R. Martins "Tillie: A Mennonite
Maid" in unusually tempting form. The
cover of green cloth has a charming me-
dallion head in tint Of Tilie, framed IN a
conventional tinted scroll design; and
the numerous fullpage illustrations, by
Florence Scovel Shinn, are printed in
brown tones on deep-cream paper, the
tinted insets helping to make an ex-
ce- dinghy attractive book. The story
deals with life among the Pennsylvania
Dutch.
Stiking testimony is borne by the Feb
rusry Bookman to the abiding popularity
of Longfellow and the remarkable vogue
of Howard Chandler Cristy. The Cristy
edition of "The Courtship of Miles Stand
ish' is the first SO volume ever to appear
in the Bookman's monthly list of the six
best selling books in the country. This
compilation was first made in November,
1897, and since then the highest price
noteworthy, also, that of the 81 books the
only poem which has won a place in
this coveted roll of honor is Riley's CAD
Old Sweetheart of Nine" illustrated by
SIr. Christy.
In its review of the good things in
the Atlantic Monthly for February, the
Southern Churchlnan Of Richmond, Va,
the chief publication of the Episcopal
church in the South, and weekly maya
zine of great power and literary excel
lence has this to say about North Car
DINA contributor: Mr.. Clarence H. Poe
of North Carolina. has an article on
"Lynching: Southern View" which we
wish could be read and pondered by every
ignorant, hot-headed speaker and writer
in the country, North or South. 1t is
calm, temperate, thoughtful and well-cal-
culated to do good. 1t is pity his ex'
ample cannot be followed by all writer's
on this subject"
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