The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-12
for his country. his faith in God-all


this and more. DR.. behring's sketch
OF his beloved commander Is as clio.
quent as Is his own Sincerity
III the second part lie discusses tho
Cause" for which Lee stood, under
the subtitles: ~ "The Conflict Was
Plainly a Peoples War. t2l Upon
Our Part 1T Was Justihable War; (3)
ct Was Great War; tD"1t Was q
Hopeless War"
DR.. Deering Is a Confederate veteran
and since 1865 has lived In his native
State, Kentucky, as n Methodist min
lister. He Is serving his twelfth Sue
cessivc year al presiding elder OF a
Kentucky district. lie was a delegate
appointed by the College OF Bishops of
Southern Methodism to the recent In
terchurch Conference on Federation.
THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMERCE.
BY Robert Kennedy Duncan. Har-
per and Brothers. Of New York,
publishers. $500.
..The Chemistry OF Commerce" IL a
graphic narrative of the wondefrul
work OF applied chemistry In the In
dustrial world to-day. 1t affords an
enEro ssing story OF the invention and
manufacture Of commodities that are
close to the business or homo inter-
tests OF every one 1t is packed with
Information upon such topics as tile
making OF artificial rubies and dia-
monds OF non-breakable Welsbach
mantels, of the distinction of per-
fumes IN quantities sufficient to float
a frigate, of the coloring of glass. OF
| the engineering feats accomplished by
| thigh temperatures, the preparation OF
drugs like camphor and quinine the
extraordinary future of industrial al
4 colol Profess1r Duncan, himself a
student OF science and a practical
chemist, spent a long time of study
abroad and secured his material per-
sonally from famous chemists Mt work
| in their laboratories.
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF
SOCIALISM, ByW. Fl. Maliock.
Harper and Brothers, publishers.
OF New York. $500.
4 An admirable discussion of the ell
tire subject OF socialism,. pointing out
with thorough fairness both the weak
and strong points OF the doctrine as
1t is understood n this twentieth
| century. 1t Is a book that Will serve
the runinstructed reader as a first In
PRODUCTION to the subject, and will at
once put him abreast OF the most re-
| cent developments and the uppermost
controversies of socialism. The sub
ject OF modern wealth is treated with
keen yet illuminating analysis.
COMRADES FOUR. BY Edward r.
Rich. The Neale Publishing Com
pany, of Now York and Washing
ton, D. G. $500.
This book contains Mr.. Rich's &C
counts OF the doings of himself and
three companions from Maryland who,
like himself. served in the confed-
4 crate army. He was a member OF
Company E, First Maryland Cavalry.
and he does not. in what he has writ
ten. follow the advent Of great gem
4 erals, the lines of great policies, or
number the slain.
i 1t is the story of a man who left
home to fight for his country. the
simple minded and single-purposed
American soldier, who did what he
could to uphold the right as he saw
1t, and when his duty was done, went
home gladly. the Southern citizen SOL
der the highest type civilization has
i produced.
A soldiers record OF soldier days,
y frank, minute. earnest, told with hui
j NOR and tenderness and sympathy, a
beautiful reckoning and one that pic
lures clearly the patriotism of the
4 Maryland Confederates and that re-
veals the tremendous scenes and
struggles they passed through from
leaving home to the hour of the great
peace.
II sWAYING TREE TOPS. BY Elmer
Willis Serl. The Neale Publish
ing Company. of New York and
Washington, D. g. $1.0o.
This book records the thoughts OF
a. man who, In the prose of to-day,
lives In the poetry of nature and holds
| Ion II are Isl
To Elmer Willis Serl as to Words
worth, the primrose by the rivers
brim Is symbol of Higher 1ntellt-
j gence. The call of the first robin.
the old house surrounded by lilacs,
the death Of an old general, the dawn
Of an October lnorning-his thoughts
Irvine about these things, clinging