The National tribune., 1906-07-05
RECENT LITERATURE.

RECENT LITERATURE.
CAPTURE AND MURDER OF MAJ.
JAMES WILSON'S =
Cyrus A. Peterson, President OF the
Missouri Historical Society, st. Louis.
Mo-. read before the Pike County His
torical Society. Jan. Is, 1906, very in
teresting narrative OF the capture and
murder of Maj. James Wilson Sd NJ. S.
NJ. Cav. who was murdered by Prices
raiders in Franklin County. Mo-. Oct
3. 1864. The paper was OF such his
torical value that Mr.. Peterson was in
duced to put 1t out in printed form. and
1t appears as a neat little pamphlet with
a picture OF Maj. Wilson as a frontis-
piece.
LETTERS FROM A SURGEON OF
THE CIVIL WAR. Compiled by
Martha Derby Perry. author of
Gods Light as 1t Came to Me-"
Published by Little, Brown 6 Co.,
Boston, Mass. Price. $1.75.
These letters were written by John G..
Perry. who left his studies at the Bos-
ton Medical School In 1862 to become a
Volunteer Contract Assistant Surgeon.
He began his experience at the Chesa-
peake Hospital. Fortress Monroe, final
ly passed his examinations, and was
commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the
til nearly the close of the war. He had
a great number of interesting and varied
experiences, which he told in q vivid
way in his letters to home, and these
have been edited and compiled by his
niece. They throw a number Of inter-
esting sidelights upon the great con-
flict.
ECHOES OF THE CIVIL WAR. BY
Michael H. Fitch. Published by r..
F. Fenno & Co., New York.
Col. Fitch entered the service as Ser
geant-Major Of the 9Th Wis; was pro-
noted to a commission, and after some
months of hard service in that regiment
was commissioned Adjutant of the 21st
Wis. He rose through all the grades
to Lieutenant-Colonel, and was brevet-
ted Colonel for gallant service. He
is man who saw things and was able
to tell what he saw, which he has done
very engagingly in a handsome volume
that Is full Of interest from beginning
to end. His service covered a wide
range from the Army Of the Potomac to
that Of the Cumberland and then with
Sherman in the last year Of the war;
MORGAN'S CAVALRY. BY Gen. Basil
w. Duke. Published by the Neale
Publishing Co., Washington.
Beyond all questions~Basil w. Duke
was the bra1niest man in Morgan's Cav
airy, and thought by many to have no
equal in Kentucky. He was an ardent
Secessionist from the first; did as much
as any OF the young men to .precipitate
secession. and was the right hand and
the brains of his brother-in-law, John
H. Morgan, throughout that cavalry
leaders notable career. Gen. Duke IS
as fascinating a writer as he was a gall
liant and accomplished soldier and the
stories he tells OF the marches, battles
and achievements. of the noted raiders
are intensely interesting to all, and espe-
cially to the Union soldiers who fought
Morgan on SO many fields He tells his
story now plainly and fully, without
animus or yirulence,s and 1t Is one that
can be read with entire good nature by
his late enemies.
KEY TO GOSPEL OF JESUS. BY L.
D. Ray. Published by the Ray Pub
fishing Co., Augusta, Me-.
Comrade Ray, who served faithfully
as soldier, afterwards devoted himself
to religious teachings, and has had
much success in his vocation. This book
contains his peculiar doctrines.
BATTERY B. 1ST N. ]. L. A. BY
Michael Hanifen. Published by the
author at Ottawa, ILL.,
Battery B, list N j. L. A., was a
famous battery and better known as
Clark's Battery. The history of the bat
terry has been well told by Comrade
Hanifen. and the book is handsomely
gotten up.
THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM OF THE
UNITED STATES. BY j. Hampden
Dougherty. Published by G. P
Putnam's Sons, New York, and for
sale by Woodward & Lothrop,
Washington, D. c.
This book Is very interesting dis
cussion Of the extraordinary results
which have followed the use of the
States, 1.-The votes shall then be count
ed" 1t takes up what counting means,
what are votes, who shall count etc,
which have been SO much discussed in
Congress. There is a review of the
Electoral Commissions in Florida, Lou
isiana, Oregon and South Carolina, and
the Electoral Commission law of 1887 is
strongly criticised. -. e.
STUDIES IN SOCIALISM. By Jean
Jaures. Translated. with an intro
duction, by Mildred ,Minturn. Pub
lished by G. p. Putnam's Sons, New
York, and for sale by Woodward &
Lothrop, Washington, d. c.
This volume contains a number of es-
says which were published in a Social
list daily paper in Paris, and therefore
is an exposition of Socialism as under
StOOd Dy SOCIALISTS and an attempt to
explain the doctrine to the general pub
lie. The author IL one Of the ablest of
European Socialists, and his aims and
theories are those of the higher class OF
the believers in this Social cult The
book is undoubtedly the highest express
sion of the theorists who would improve
society and lift it above many of the
hard conditions that now prevail.
THE OLD FLAG AND THE NEW Ma
ton. By Union Veteran. Pub
lished by c. G. Thomson. Lafay-
cite, Ind.
This is little pamphlet giving Paul
Wyman's experience and "reminiscences
of the great war of the rebellion, and is
quite interesting.
SLOCUM AND HIS MEN. Published
by the New York Monuments Com
mission. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles,
Chairman.
A superb volume has been gotten out
In memoriam of Gen. Henry Warner
Slocum. Published under the authority
of the New York Monuments Commits
sion. 1t has as frontispiece a fine por-
trait OF Gen. Slocum, with excellent
photographs, maps and battle scenes.
The literary matter consists of addresses
and letters at the time of the unvailing
OF the statue to Gen. SlOcum. a history
of his life and military Seryica history