The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-27
AMONG NEW BOOKS.

class of literature Is valuable. in that il
shows that intelligent men are thinking,
and DR. HOwe's Is distinguished from the
mass by it's aeuteness Of historical OBJ
servation, its truth Of premise, its logic
Of deduction. and its clearness OF die
ton. He follows up The subject u4itssT a
number of subheads, The Lure OF the
Land" 1.-The Rape Of the Nation" The
New Serfdom,' The Tyranny OF the
Dead THE Future Of Labor" .sThe
Distribution of Wealth" The Cause Of
Civilization and Decay" and "The Rem
edy Proposed being the most interest
ing. some Of them intensely so. In fact,
the whole book is far from dry reading.
Charles scribner's Sons, New York;
"Fifty Years I'm Camp and Field"
1t seems that the late Mai. Gen. Ethan
Allen Hitchcock kept diary. which has
been edited and written around by DR..
! w. A. Croffut, thus uniting the aatoblo-
graphical and biographical functions in
a history of the time covered by the
Generals active life II is entitled Fifty
Years IN Camp and Field"
Gen. Hitchcock was graduated from the
Military Academy in 1877. and up to 1861.
when ne was mustered out Of the ser
vice, his whole life was spent as an
| oi''cer OF the government in the military
army thus covering a half century of
service. participating in the Seminole
war, the Greek war. various other Indian
outbreaks, the Mexican war. and the war
Of the Rebellion. with intimate assoeia-
lions with Scott. Taylor, Lee. Grant. Nc
Clelian, Pope. Halleck, Stanton. lincoln
and a host- OF lesser lights. Aside from
his military experience, sen. Hitchcoek
was man OF marked literary procIivifies
and philosophic temperament. So much
so was this the case that he was known
as THE Caesar of the Army" and he
relates himself that once, when AZ an
obscure military post, he took a fancy
to count his books and found that he
had collection Of over eco. rather ex-
tensive impediments for an army officer
IN those days, it seems. The most i'm
portant campaign In which ne actively en-
gagged in the field was Scotts campaign
against the City of Mexico, in which he
filled an important post on the STAFF Of
the chief, while during the civil war his
services in the War Department were OF
such confidential nature as TO cause him
10 be generally considered as the mill
tary adviser Of Secretary Stanton, al
| though he himself claims to have advised
against number of movements which
were then and afterward considered to
be mistakes. and which ended dis
astrously.
He was one of those who looked upon
Mcclellan as a mere organizer. and no
campaigning general at all, and claims
that he himself was invited 10 succeed
/ that officer in the command Of the army.
and was an admirer of Grant, Sherman.
and Sheridan. He comments on men and
affairs with great freedom OF speech,
with the large majority of his deductions
founded upon fact In fact. his diary
would impress one as being the obser-
vations of an intelligent man. of slight
prejudices, taken from an advantageous
! position on the inside
| The greatest value OF the work is his
| graphic power of describing important
events. with a subsidiary interest aecru-
ing from his constant inquiry into things
spiritual and philosophical the latter
T, being accumulated by his correspondence
and friendship with Longfellow. Emerson,
and other literary notables. The his
torieal value Of the work is incalculabIe,
for whether We agree with him in all his
deductions and predictions or not the
/ sincerity of the reporting is evident.
/ &c. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and
| London)