The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-26

| 40 students were waiting for lectur
by Prof. Woehler of chemistry came hur
rying a tall Engiishman, waving
Times and shouting at the Yankee stu
dents, Your damned republic has gon
up" beautiful fight followed. II
| which number of the German lad
took a hand. the Prussians and some o
the Bavarians and Saxons siding will
the English, while the Hanoverians ant
The Brunswickers took the part OF tn,
Americans. The "poodes." proctOrs
had their hands full quelling the dis
turba nee. Afterward the Yankee lad
paraded the streets, smashing the win
dows of the English lads rooms, In fire
! netic defiance OF poodle" and career.
A few months later and most Of these
boys had gone back home to shoulder
arms, some OF them under the Southern
! flag.
To 20 back to '61 and the American
representatives at Berlin: Secretary
| Hudson let it be undcrs God that he ex'
pected himself to be made Minister OF
Ambassador to the court Of Berlin or
! behalf of his new nation" In the ives
and circulated a pamphlet intended to
bolster up the Confederate cotton loan
and undermine the credit of the United
States. Young Putnam sent his father
a copy. with translation: the transa-
ton. published in the New York papers
made big stir-perhaps the inception
of the Loyal Publication Society, or
ganized soon afterward. In 1861 Wright
was succeeded by Norman b. Judd of
Illinois, a member OF the conven-
ton that nominated Lincoln: and
on the Fourth of July a dinner was
had. at which even those who had been
most incensed by the operations Of Hud-
son had to admire the cleverness with
which. while keeping within the con-
ventionalitles of loyal expression" he
managed still to make clear to his Ger
man auditors the mistaken quality OF
his belief In the impending dissolution
of the Union.
In connection with this topic Mr..
Putnam records much that Is as inter-
esting as II is assuredly remote from
the territory of his memory: of the
Mason and Slidell affair, for instance.
though here to his fund OF later ac-
ouired information he adds a highly
enlightening conversation he had.
twenty years or so after the war
with the son Of Judge Mann of Ceor-
g.a. whom Mason was to supersede as
the Confederacy's special envoy to
England at the same TIM as Mr.. Sill
del went In similar capacity to France.
The junior Mann told Of his fathers
exuberant expectation of English sup
port for the Confederacy. and OF con-
versations with Palmerston which the
hoy was permitted to hear and in which
the elders actually laid out plan Of
operations for the British forces. at
10 Al, I. a
capturing Washington. With the cap
ture of Washington said Pa.merston
France and England will be in posi-
ton 10 demand the immediate cessation
Of the war and TO exercise a rightful
influence In regard TO the terms OF
peace" The labors of Mr.. Adams In
London and OF Mr.. Blgelow In Paris
were hercuIean and effective. Alto.
gether. with his combined sources OF
Information, Mr.. Putnam presents as
lively an account Of European participa-
ton, so to speak, In our civil war az one
could wish for.
In these 400 pages Of gossip there Is
much TO gossip about: the German
people ard their customs half a CEN
fury ago. the work and play of stu
dents the dueis. rhe beer, the tramps
about Goth1--the villages, each with
its Fahr.k famous FOR It's peculiar make
Of sausage, and its custom laws pro-
hiblting the Importation OF whole
sausares, regulation vircumvented by
wayfarers biting off the end OF each
sausage in the packed lunch: inter-
estinC places and Interesting people, all
viewed In the mellowinr haze OF years
by one who has reached with honor
the end Of that ridiculouSly stipulated
three score and ten. The military
recoueCt!ors occupy half the volume in
extent but not in value: Major Putnam
has tod n Foodly part Of II In another
book. his experience as a prisoner OF
war.
\ book eminently human" and true
In outlook and spirit 10 tho best tradi-
lions of American letters.