Evening star., 1908-01-22


loving service for their fathers. OF
The Public Life and Diplomatic
Correspondence of James Nj.
Mason" by Miss Virginia Mason
(cloth, $3.50; half-library, $500;
library, $3.50; postage. IS cents),
The Columbia State says: Taken
all i'll all the book is one of the
most valuable collections Of remi-
niSoences and impressions in re-
lation to the South that have vet
been published
In The Life of DR.. Samuel A.
Mudd $500; postage, 20 cents),
his daughter. Miss Nettie Mudd,
has compiled most interesting
book. DR.. Mudd was imprisoned at
Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas
Island. for alleged completely III
the assassination OF Abraham Lin
coin. and the volume is made up
largely of his letters written from
his prison. and OF the proceedings
OF the trial. 1T IS" The San Fran
cisco Argonaut thinks, "eminently
readable. and as one of history S
sidelights it has distinct import
ance.
In "A Memoir of Robert NJ. I.
Hunter Isl. so: postage. 10 cents),
his daughter. Miss Martha Hunter,
gives "a brief but most interesting
and valuable sketch" to quote The
Louisville Courier-Journal, mot
only of Mr.. Hunters life. but OF
Virginia country family i'll ante
bellum days.
Judge John T. Goolrick. in "The
Life OF General Hugh Mercer
(SI.5o; postage, 10 cents), IAN en-
tllusiastic and captivating biogra-
ply as The Pittsburg Gazette
Times calls it. gives us charming
and sympathetic work. Like Judge
Goolrick's work, too, in enthusi-
asm and spirit. arc the biographies
of Alexander Wilson; Poet Natu-
ralist" ($2.oo; postage, 10 cents
by DR.. James Southall Wilson,
teacher in the Department of Eng
lish and History i'll the College of
William and Mary; and major
General ]. E. B. Stuart (SI.oo;
postage, 10 cents), by Judge
Theodore S. Garnett, his Aide-de-
Camp.
The Bangor Commercial feels
DR.. Wilson S enthusiasm about his
hero: This study of our first orni-
thologist is most entertaining and
inspiring. We have read every
page with great interest"
And in the same spirit Judge
Garnett has made that superb cav
alryman, the glorious "Jeb' Stu
art, very real to us. He rides here.
adored by his men, feared by his
enemies, admired by friend and foe,
the gallant, gracious Stuart, whom
men loved so we'll and followed SO
faithfully.
In running commentary on the
histories of the war between the
States, and the biographies Of the
great Southern leaders, a COM
mentary which makes much clearer
that period of struggle and WHITES
it. are the works of fiction dealing
with Reconstruction and the years
Immediately succeeding the war
novels of manners, some of them,
others novels Of character and Incl
dent. but all make more real the
political and domestic conditions
that grew out of that terrible frat
ricidal strife.
The Stranger (S1.5o). by
Colonel ]. F. ]. Caldwell, author OF
"The History Of Brigade" is in
every way and i'll every sense a
change from the bitter-spirited Re-
construction stories that are writ
ten to intensity race hatred.
Or. take Ned; Niger an Gen
t'man' Isl. .5o), by Judge Norman
G. kittrell, Of the oIst Judicial Dis
trict of Texas. Ned is the story
OF Maine man who goes South
after the war, and is entertained in
a Southern home. where he learns
what the ideals of the South were,
and what the South stood for when
she sent her men to battle.
The Reverend ]. w. Daniel. d.
D., writes of Reconstruction days
in South Carolina in "A Maid of
the Foothills" ($1.5o). DR.. Daniel
lived in the midst Of those turbu-
lent times, and he writes from the
standpoint of an eyewitness His
story deals with the years that fol-
lowed the disbanding of the ku
klux klan, when the Red Shirt or
ganization rose to prominence.
In The Elder Brother" Isl. 5o),
Judge Theodore D. Jervcy takes
up the problems now confronting
the South, and presents them with
much earnestness and force. Mr..
Owen Wister refers to this i'm
portant volume in his Lady Balti-
more.