The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-21

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partially are we'll shown in an account Of
Reconstruction in South Carolina, by MIR.
John S. Reynolds (The State Company,
Columbia, So. Few people in the North,
we imagine, can take pride in the recon
struction proceedings. and of all the shame
full stories of corruption and oppression
none SURPRISES that of South Carolina
under the Moses administration. That
story is told calmly and dispassionately
by the author in this volume, 80 that it
possibly may bring him into disfavor in the
South, Only Hamlet is left ont. The ex-
cuse for arbitrary interference in the States
lately in rebellion lay in the necessity Of
protecting the e~mancipated slaves. The
negro problem had to be dealt with imme-
diately. From these pages the reader may
gather, unless he is careful, that South
Carolina was ready TO treat the negro with
all the consideration the North required,
and that it was merely the violent attacks
of the negroes, melted by Northern carpet
baggers, that brought about the few in
stances Of retaliation from patient whites
in self-defence. The author has a perfect
right to his opinion or the negro question,
but his book would carry much more weight
If he had not suppressed or minimized the
offences against the laws of the United
States by the South Carolina whites in order
to get the upper hand over the negroes.
The book contains important historical
documents and shows much research.
No harm. surely. can be lone in repeating
the story of Abraham Lincoln's life, and
in Lincoln, Master Of Men" Houghton,
Mif1in and Company Mr., Alonzo Roths-
child shows that he has been an industrious
reader of books, That his judgment is not
equal to his ingenious theories the reader
Of his book will probably soon discover. The
msgnifcation Of the importance Of trivial
incidents of perhaps doubtful authenticity
we thought had disa ppeared with the apple
tree and hatchet school Of history. The
author takes occasion TO show President
Lincoln's relations to some Of the men about
h~im-Seward, Chase, Stanton, Fremont
and Mcclellan. We cannot help regretting
that stress should be put on polemical mat
ters concerning the civil war in a popular
book. The notes and references are rather
ludicrously extraordinarily should the pages
of secondary authorities be referred to2
A service that will be appreciated by
all lovers Of Ireland has been performed
by the Rev. John MacHale in compiling
"A Ballad History of Ireland universe
Publishing Company, Cleveland. 1t is
no history, of course, but a succession Of
romantic incidents az told by the poets
from the beginning Of Erin TO the immi-
grafton to America. The poets are all
Irishmen, James Mangan, Darcy MCGEE,
Thomas Davis, Tom Moore, Aubrey de
We're, Samuel Ferguson, Gavan Duffy.
None belong to the new Gaelic school. and
though the poem Of DIR. Ingram of Trinity
College. Dublin, is included, the author
omits any biographical note OF that worthy.
To each poem is prefixed a short explana-
tory historical sketch, and at the end are
condensed biographies Of the poets. Many
old favorites will be found here. His
torical completeness might call for well
known poems Of the opposing side, but
that would have produced discord in the
lyrics of the book and in ite readers,
Entertaining recollections of Hawaii in
the days when the missionaries first.
descended on the islands are narrated ny
DR., Henry NJ. Lyman in Hawaiian Yes
terdays' "a. C. McClurg and Company,
Chicago. The charm of the book is In
Its personal character, so that it is rather
provoking that the author dwells so much
on incidents that must antedate his memory
and that he left the Sandwich Islands 30
soon. His keepness of observation and
his sense OF humor give value to what he
says Of natives and missionaries. and it is
q pity he should stop when he approaches
manhood.
To the members Of the party which Mr..
E. G. Benedict took on a cruise to the Amazon
In the yacht Virginia Mr.. Richard Arthur's
Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht" will no
doubt prove interesting Others, we fear
will find little to attract them in it. 1t
is the log Of a rather hurried trip, with
slight summaries of information about
the places visited. The best part is where
the author let's himself out and tells OF
personal incidents. The pictures obtained
were very good. In an introduction Mr..
w. NJ. WINS talks so enthusiastically about
Brazil and seems to be so we'll acquainted
with the country that we hope he will yield
to his temptation Of writing a book about
Brazil that shall tell lis what we want to
know about that unknown land.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton at the age OF seventy
yeani is panied at the way in which things
are going in these United States, He utters
his displeasure about many matters in The
Fading Of the Mayhower' "a. y. Marquis
and Company. Chicago, a sequence Of III
sonnets. In these he shows that he has not
lost his cunning in versifying. Mr.. Tilton
seems greatly annoyed at the m~ispnonunoia-
ton of the arbutus, which we call the May
flower. The book is very handsomely
got up, with arbutus designs to decorate
borders and covers. There are some good
pictures. The portrait Of Mr., Tilton re-
sembles astonishingly his former pastor
To the layman the difficulties must seem
insurmountable in the race problems sug-
gested by the title The United States Regis
ter and Studbook for Cats edited by Mabel
Cornish Bond UNITED States Official Regis
ter Association, Washington. Setting
aside those prejudiced by back fence con-
certs, even lovers of cats must find it hard
to keep track Of the generations Of a highly
prolific animal Of vagrant i%nclinations. A
beginning ia made in this book with several
hundred cats Of breeding, long haired and
short haired. male, female and non breeding.
The list Of the last we are sorry to note, is
very short, The preface ia very lively read
ing; it discloses the existence Of feline war
fare as bitter as that between the various