New-York tribune., 1905-08-12


to England" This volume is selected from the
writings OF many years, and represents the best
of the authors p-~tical work. The book derives
it's title from a poem read at the banquet 10
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid the Of his
departure for the Court Of st. James's.
Lords of the Soil'' is the title of novel soon
to be brought out by the c. M. Clark Publish
ing Company. The story derives it's chief In
terest-prior to its publcation-from its oddly
associated authorship. 1t is the work OF Mrs
Lydia A Jocelyn the widow Of the so-called
Martyr Missionary OF the Black Hills" who
was slain by the Indians in Deadwood. S. D.. IN
1876 and Nathan ]. Cuffee, a stone blind. full
blooded Amerind. We are informed by the
publisher that instead of letting her tragic ex-
perience prejudice her against the red men, Mrs
Jocelyn has championed the Indian cause In her
novel. showing in vivid colors the gross in
justice and rapacity Of the early white settlers
in their treatment OF the magnanimous and un-
suspecting lords OF the soil " The story deals
with the life OF the Indians and white settlers
of Long Island and Shelter Island in the seven
teenth century. Nathan ]. Cuffee is a linea1 de-
scendant of the Montauk chieftain whose tragic
| career is an essential element In the plot. and
Mrs Jocelyn traces her ancestry back to Major
Gordon one of the first settlers on Long Island.
Another book about the home and haunts
of the Quaker poet has just been issued by
the Advance Publishing Company of Birming-
ham, Ala. It is both written and illustrated by
Ethel Arnles, a resident of that city, who was
formerly engaged in newspaper work in Chi
cago and Washington. Midsummer in Whit
tiers Country" is the title of the little volume.
which is the outcome of a summer spent at
Sandwich Centre, and of subsequent browsing
|ha ndu do
scriptions OF the region. Miss Armes writes
with keen feeling for her subject and INDUCES
in much picturesque imagery in giving her i'm
pressions of the landscape, as may be seen In
the following quotation:
Like slender white threads the paths down
under the travellers feet and wind of into the
chsnters appear in the shape Of wonderful vistas,
now far ahead or far ar back s or to right or sf to
nit is on ahead-the donjon towerIand a view Of
the walls and battiements and towers and turrets
of the great casted land on to the south the vast
in the heart of the valley Sandwich village and all
eer little & sister M e, % Of IN The
lakes. far across the country long pale line will
stretch-the coast of Maine, dim in the mist OF
the
While Miss Armes has been celebrating Whit
tier in highly appreciative terms another
southron-it is a safe guess Catherine Frances
in digging out the real story of his patriotic
and popular heroine. Barbara Frietchie." AS
she tells II in the current number of 1.-The Era. -
the legend is ruthlessly stripped of it's romance.
but what OF that? Others have dared to doubt
and to substitute other and commonplace ex-
plantations of the incident but aged Barbara
! will still live in American poetry. If not in
American history. proudly waving her banner.
long after Mistress Cavanaghs painstaking re-
searches have been forgotten and perhaps. for
given This is her version of the story:
The house of Barbara Frietchie was not on the
line of march and it was, therefore highly i'm
probable that any general Union or Confederate
ing either her or her flag War. in September
old ladies who lived on side streets The real hero
| Inc OF the flag incident was young woman
according to the testimony OF reliable persons who
lived in FREDERICK during the war & this Mary Guam
who 90 out of their way to shake the flag in the
theV were wont to say will get us ali killed vet
or sent over the line, for her flag waving" When
! tember 1862 and the wise ones drew in the starry
hiding ling them froT MSn awess s hands u
face OF the passing troops One OF the soldiers
give General Lee. Whereupon Mary stoutiy an
swered that the nag vas hs WSr6ny Of better
were nghtng. This Sc seemed sslot to amuse some OF
the men and one n Sd the y ordered the 6an
MY Maryland. My Maryland. and THE Star
stiii waved the flag. and one of the soldiers. who
did not look gently upon her. AS did his gal
/ liant comrades. came up ana struck the slender
star with his bayonet. The flag fell and he
trampled it, An officer stepped out OF the line
| and reproved the for what he had done
whereupon a comrade Of Mary's pulled small
silken flag of her vouminous sleeve and
handed II 10 her This flag she waved vigorously
as the marched on. II seems that every IN
| Patrick-st knew of this incident. but there
talk OF shooting the part OF the Confederates
nor Mary regarded as heroine; indeed. she
| was called SILLY"
Ralph Adams Cram. an architect who punctu-
ates the practice of his profession with travel
/ and authorship. has two volumes coming out
this fall through different publishing houses
James Pott & Co will issue a book by him on
The Ruined Abheys of Great Britain" and the