The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-28

III ' visW aslways balrss txeept In eases s
tho5se iii heed ef isss stance. Father than
needy to, be salr-suppofting, ultinlsately
sort. This problem Of relief 70 those IN
s.eYs bssSns po !, tbsy arsEsr
Il embrace the Whole @ SOCIOLOGY, md re- {,
tenbt W. sn$Gse S Book
BOTH complete and authoritative, and his
r ane pH ss 81 4Gap d
hlniNto supply9n manual OR text-book tfor
tie gnldance 5pf both ,individuais5 and So.
q,eles pars dEsSt
ep Ru
prhciples the author Bad qlreaay as ,yi
Tthe subject lof ellef III lei D.lsast ers,
showing III detail just how various soc q.
cites and relief coinnlit tees we1t 70 work
jin8theS Chicago fire, the JohnSt iloptI
fstho Baltimore IRE utld several Of her We
remembered calainlties. n N N
LETTERS "a or, Jc1 Elm y r u SKIN no
4i@8ll5 CHARLES ELIOT IN ORION. 2 Vols.
81 per SGT net. Houghton, Mill COM
paiiy Bos ton az a . \, ,5
This Is Il record Of q memorable friend IN,
ship between two distinguished men. The
l$letters here printed cove a. period ott
more than forty years. \, and form y sort!
liof autobiography Of course iilcomp etc,
but slngulary Intimate and y frank, OF
ono Of tho most brilliant OF modern En- 3
tlishtlen. THE first limo that M n orion
had from Ruskin was In Oct ber,; ls55,
after enclosing to him n etter. o. 1flnltro,
ldtlction,&wlth& which chance lad supplied
him and the d las words came e IN h
D, trembling hand. from your owing J v
III InSf tf 1n period Il between these two
dates almost pproxitnatlng hal o. cen :
l8tury, the corres ronde CO. was II "
l8That; Rusk In, among NJ His sncqun lntancc-t
ship, gave Nfri Norton d highhperhap tho
highest place III Ills esteem md an ctl on.
these letters nccord ample cyl dence md
Ibis failure 4 10 maintain oward the tier
part of his life, q more syst ematic corr
appears to 4 have beer. due
/ tlnrgelySto his disturbed mental condition.
T1nalhis brief but interesting and aYmpa-Es
lthetic pre- Mr.. Norton 50 VS.: Il" His M;
|5ture = a. II was full Of contrndic Glory ee-
slnelits. whioh he never ucceeded IN re- :,
lfconcling SO as to obtain st eady qulll-5
|4brumS and tranquility ofssoul, or ~ rslst-
lent fixity or aim. II ID will wos III table,
| for incl him reason was subj ect to Ssentl-:
lSment and q often 81 o / transfer einot ion.'n$
And agaln, or Ruskin s E'rtlet erlta - -.
l$uportions I, OF 8 this account q isplay With
l3unconscious pnthos the part ial irnsoul,d-5
mess Of his mind at the time when he
WIS engaged upon It, iShie CHI finally pre-
vented dim from completing what. 50 far.
lof8autobiograph les}5'5 And In Volumne III.
we find "a letter from Laurence FL I'll II
Hard, at one time gS Ruskin' secretary,
giYingHas d. reason for Rusktn's silence
I4thatE''he seems more and more to find q
diflculty In Keeping to I an y one settled
train Of thought or Wor III nd one from
tAS Co ling ood, r uski n 3 official sblos
.tr,St 10 uc
s...have mixed most tof his oldest and best +
|Sfrlends witt lous "a rennls an q urklnd
I9hallucinati ons. s ai
VI The record of these let ers IS on the,
whole ~ sad one. sa I hey impress r skinss3
spersonallty and temperam ent more deep
lSly8upon5 the mind than would be posslble,3
perhaps, In any other way, and the inns.
lBpresslon is not o happy n one. The full
| gladncss at life,7 VIC see too plainly, was
far from, being his and seh cleans e.
| shines throug h a letter here and there,
are htful ana transit STORY. Happy or I'm
j happy however, tho 81 cptters furnis n
ht
4 man who occupies q High lace in I1ng lish
I sliterature 4 and = OF innfi " Gu tlyated
man, In reading them, could wei VI COM
plain tina they cked interest. MIL Nor
I8lishng at all 4 letters forlS the most part
80 frankly personal and so little q rec
ord Of events OF any publ 10 moment. n
spite OF tho poet he SCI n of
modern usa sc, III spite OF Ruski1,'s own
example, hold with those who believe
that there IRE sane titles in love and life
TO be $ikcpt IN IS priya cys Inv olaf .f But
these letters, extending III M un broken
series over 30 m any years and contribu-
ting a. vivid picture OF cllara cter ana
moods. W. ere unique; and he recognized
that the public hnd a certain claim pom
sthem--a cas- t. upon some OF them. 9 We
think this conclusion correct and that
| the letters,.lf published. could have been
prepared for the press by#no better hand
THAN Mr. N0rtOn's, who'd has not Incon-
| sideratelys printed everything thnt Ruskin
wrote him, The volumes are dinirably
and slngularly Interesting addition to blo-
ISgraphica ! literature. II.
HISTORY OF THE UNIFIED STATES.
By james Ford Khod les. nv oil. VI $50 PIP.
S s5 ESQ net. The Macmillan Company,
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The llfthBvollime OF, Dr. Rhod es' s nlonu-
recently issued from the presses OF his
|Ipublishers8 the Macmillans. This history
| begins its narrative with tho compromise
! OF 1850 Volume d I. II carries lie story
through the repeal of the Missouri COM
promise In LISA. Volume II deals with
the stirring events running through the
1AHliS2I SLt uk1sys, CollCluusIlS
with the organization OF the Republican
party and the election OF Lincoln in 1850
Volume III, brings tho story OF 1852 /;
Volume ~. to 1864; the present yolumasto
1886, and three, possibly four further
volumes Will DO required to complete the
work down to March 4, 1885. AZ e Az l8y s5
,j3. The finished history will thus DO by far
tho most nmhl tlous account yet projected
fof this trencndou Gus epoch IA Not only in
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IshodessS history remarkable. Flo has not
written merely a long history, but an
emtnently good one. I1ls familiarity with
authorities and the sources Of history is
both vide md deep. as Ills numerous
1 'bogra nhto on, re ferences indicate, He
E,writes simply. ,lucidly and directly. with a
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easy us tits pleasant to read him. What
| Is aYen, more Important, lie exhibits the
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| historian ne ighing causes md Issues at
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