The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

South. It came to pc aat1 " txs ntI v;s., ves ss,e ersssaent ei ef the cehfsdsrscy. wkoss biosraphy ,s go closely s,sy,s to sfIr ay lev tfs pssnsissoo ss oi dssrsla, For len
 upon upon the President cf the Los. ~ csnss s,a ys as the arch traitor of the WnoIe yirve Tseful % seryices in the Mexican War. his long and patriotic career In benam ot our common country before civil stTafs ie sa,ss s Sn to aras srn n people pee2 who have "1ss some to .os school @ since fssB have learned fo know of the President of the Con federate states of Amsrict IS dis snSf s,5,d,s' ne for for pu purposss % ana sG in Ways wholly sinis- crinoiine. that he ought to have been sae on fate soa whcREp sRpss s. ssss sseaped sg \ Iexnmpled mercy; that he renla.nisd 10 < gthe eisd an unrecenciied advocate of the ;doctfine Of the right of state soyeF-
 Now, such of these Impressions ss were wrong as this book 50 well evi- dences. were partially at iesst due ,, to ieadSf of an unsuccessful revolution ia not usually favor.te. The people de- Iserf his standards and he Ia left to sss sos .o s sss ssr ss fESi ats alSn hsa no snd there were sch ism and dtssention among the leaders I've or thTss ststes ua,,y were 2, jerations itself . new creature of seoes- sion. The ranks of the people were similarly broken, and t was a sore
 p0n oss sR RSas and sRss wsrs triclan in every drop of his blood. 2 sch col man of definite eenvictions and he was hot likely te warm the hearts of the masses of men. It was only some years after the war that the South love and allegiance so that when. death trsnched n the affsctioas of the psopls.
 His nature S,se and R the charastsr of b1 tho est characters of the world. He is at any rate eiready one of the important Afmeries. afSas n If not sos what .lRe Sid. for what he tried to do with ncre skill and ability than is commonly suppcsed asa in ,n Sanitary @ 's sspisis e m has s soe fc has produced Life which consider. Words. l S cannot fail to Sise the most sx- acting student of the history Of these times the highest satisfaction from the the Author has susordinated his own feelinge which are naturally somewhat pro-soWthern, and has brought to pear upon the man and the period of dis psaetisaliy ycid tof shiea. while very readable, end the feets na8rshalied gasn inAniteiy In, impressIyepess in view Of These Tsese sH are wsG eerfa 9SoS Ss mss snsl n the first non-paFtisap biography done after the sub eidefiee of seetional bit- terness, so will 1t continue to be q com the literature on this subject wnat- ever that may be In time come to be.
 'TMoee to whom pavis's character may hitherto have seemed enigmatical will find in this volume 2 rational ex- planat.on in the facts. Nothing is so hard 70 get concerning such A charac- sse as bleS Sbps has arclyf o are never abundant, hub Professor Dodd has tntelligent.y used those. which are at hard. He has. steered "a middl , cannot but find In his pages a satisfac- tory meeting ground. On tlis point. he says in his sintroduetion 10 the study:
 as If ardent admirers m of the nonfsa- ls. \. have ofly to say that INhave kept as close to the sources as possible: if, on the other hand, extreme advocates of that # ia extremely doubtful whether there was real and vital nation within the limits of our Republic before the were settled.
 4sre tell how these issues were met and settled and to describe the lives of those who played the principal parts in biographical series. Dayis'a share in the general result has HOW been adequate- ly treated by q writer who is to be con gratuiated heartily upon the completion l of a task probably the most difficult which the editor of the series had to assign. A good frontispiece portrait and an ample bibliography increase the value of the book"