The National tribune., 1907-10-10
RECENT LITERATURE.


HALE HOURS IN SOUTHERN HIS
TORY-By John Leslie Hall, Phi. ID.
sion a diary for 1851. found in the VAL
Published by the B. T. Johnson |
Publishing Co., Richmond, Va.
The author of this book is professor |
of English and General History in the
College of William and Mary. and he
has made book of sketches" which. |
he says, aims to give in brief outline |
the salient features OF Southern heroism |
and achievement. and to state rapidly
the South's side to the long controversy
between the sections" The author has |
tried to be fair, candid and truthful. |
and has generally succeeded At all |
events he has made an interesting work |
which Northern people can read with
profit. The book is well printed and
well illustrated.
THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN. A study
by Lieut.-Col S. c. Pratt, author
of "Saarbruck to Paris,' etc. Pub
Gshed by Swan, Sonnenschein &
Co., New York.
This is a clear easily comprehended
narrative of the famous operations
which led up to the decisive battle of
Waterloo and of the movements and
tactics in that epoch-making struggle.
The author, who has previously achiev
ed rIuch reputation by his works on
campaigns. is a soldier of long expert
usual capacity of telling his story lu-
cidly. bringing out the essential points
and yet not incumbering il with a tire
some mass of technical detail. The
work is embellished with seven maps
and sketches.
CEDAR CREEK A poem. BY w. II.
Polhamus. Published by the I'm
perial Press. Cleveland, o.
Comrade Polhamus. who served in
the I'd Ohio Cav, wrote poem for his
comrades at the National Encampment
I at Cleveland, and they were so well
pleased with it that they insisted upon
having it in a permanent form. 1t has
been made into n hands )me booklet,
with bright illustrations, one of the
best of which is an old tin-type of the
author as boy recruit, with the
legend beneath it: Picked a trihe too
soon"
THE EARLY BIRD-By David Mutt,
London. Published by the author.
This is pretty little booklet telling
how to get up early and why. and with
much gathered wisdom from ancient
and modern sources as to the health
| fulness and other reasons for rising
early.
THE WOOSTER JUVENILE SPEAK
Err. Published by Laird & Lee,
Chicago. Price 25 cents
This contains 112 pages of recitations.
disiogs and songs for the use of our
little speakers in schools.
Magazines and Notes.
The Craftsman for October might
well be called an educational Num-
ber," for the idea most prominently
set forth in its pages is that of the great
value of handicrafts as means of men,
tai and moral development, not only
for children, but for men and women
of both business and leisure classes.
The editorial by Gustav Stickley is de-
voted to the subject of manual training
Among the Craftsmen and From
the Craftsman Workshops" are new de-
partments started in October which in
clude practical lessons IN 'handicrafts.
The special features of the American
Monthly Review of Reviews for October
are discriminating estimate OF
Richard Mansdeld's influence on the
American drama by Franklin Fyles: a
sketch of Edward Grieg, "the Chopin If
the North" by, G. w. Harris: an article
on India; Nation in the Making by
W. NJ. Zumbro, illustrated with more
than 20 photographs recently taken and
never before published.
Longevity is the name of a new mag
azine Devoted to Life and Phys cal I'm
mortality The editor and publisher
is Capt. Hyland C. Kirk, who has here
tofore attracted much attention by his
work on The Possibility of Not Dying"
when Age Grows Young" and various
articles on the same subject in the mag
lazines. So much interest was developed
in his theory that he has been induced
to start magazine, and it is hand
some publication of so pages on fine
white paper. well printed and illustrated
by artistic engravings. 1t takes up the
whole question of long life and dis
;cusses it scientifically. Published at
Washington, D.. C. Price, % cents a
number or $3.50 a year.
Theodore Roosevelt, in the October
Scribner, gives under the title Small
Country NeighborS'' an, account. Of the
life of birds and small mammals as he
has observed it in the White House
grounds, at Oyster Bay and at Pine
Knot, his Virginia country place.
The September Century will make
special appeal to those who love MEM
)rs with further extracts from Horace
Traubefs remarkable daily record of
conversations with Walt Whitman in his
old age in Camden, N. j., with much of
interest of Whitman's estimate of John
Burroughs. his war memories, his ideas
On reading and his general philosophy
of life.
The reports of the officers of the
Washington County, VT, Veterans As
sociati On. covering the 10th Annual Re-
union, have been issued in neat booklet
from the press of the Northfeld News.
The booklet contains all official reports
and minutes of the session and matters
that are of interest to veterans every
where. The President, continuously re-
elected, is E. J. Foster, Waterbury,
Conn; Secretary, John r. Wilson. Wor-
cester. -
practical Nursing; a Textbook for
Nurses and a Handbook for All Who
Care for the Sick is from G. P. Put
nam's Sons, New York City, N Y, and
the authors have done in their several
chapters all that the title-page indicates
as their object. The book is by collab-
oration of Anna Caroline Maxwell Su-
perintendent, and Amy Elizabeth Pope,
Instructor, in the Presbyterian Hospital
School of Nursing. They state in their