The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

to an island called by the Delaware Indians Man
aahattanik, or ''the place where we were all
drunk" Afterward chap named DE VRIEs, re-
marking crabs on the fiat shores of New York Bay,
observed: Their claws are Of the color Of our
Princes flag, orange, white and blue, so that the
crabs show clearly enough that we ought to people
the country and that it belongs to u.s. Well, as
the author says, when the very crabs thus beck
Oned to empire how could the Netherlsnders fail
to respond tc their invitationi'' They couldn't
and didn't. They ate the crabs, which well
favored, ana occupied the land.
A delightful volume, this, full Of PATRONS and
lords of the manor, Dutch dominies and school
masters LEna ER, privateers, the Zenger trial negro
plots and Sir WILLIAM JOHNSTON. 1t falls to this
book to recapituiate the career of KIDD the pirate
This is satisfactorily and excitingly done, albeit
with little more caution than is necessary. There
can be reasonable doubt, for instance, that KIDD
visited Gardeners Island and not only made
present Of cloth to Mrs. GARDINER but left
siderable treasure on the island, recovered after
he had been hanged
1.-THE Old Northwest"
How happy selection was made in choosing
FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG to write Of The Old North
wcst the reader will not comprehend until he en-
counters, in the middle Of the book, the chapter
The Great Migration, chapter with all the pic
torial elements of very vast and deeply moving
panorama We shall quote little
In the first days of westward migration the
favorite gateway into the Ohio Valley was Cum
berland Gap at the southeastern corner of the
present State of Kentucky. Thence the Virginians
and Carolinians passed easily to the Ohio in the
region Of Cincinnati or Louisville Later emigrants
from more northern States found other servieeable
routes. Thus in a decade Ohio became .
frontier melting pot. Puritan, Cavalier, Irshman,
Scotch IrishHlan, German-al we're poured into
the erucible Ideals clashed and differing customs
grated harshly. But the product of hundred
years of crAs breeding was splendid type of
citizenship. AT the Presidential inaugural cere-
monies of March 1, 1881, six men chiefly attracted
the attention of the crowd the retiring President,
HAYES; the incoming President, GARFIELD; the
Chief Justice who administered the oath, WAITE;
the General commanding the army WILLIAM T.
SHERMAN; the e1-Secretary of the Treasury, JOHN
SHERMAN; aud the Marshal Ney of America,
Lieutenant General SHERIDAN. Five of the six were
natives of Ohio, and the sixth was lifelong resi-
dent
If this passage illustrates true sense for the
pageantry which is as present in a history of de-
moeraey as W any chronicle of empire less obvious,
of course, buh much more dramatic, Mr.. OaG does
not lack an appreciation of homelier and equally
interesting details. The frontiersman, eating,
sleeping, hunting and fighting gets his due in these
pages. -
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The Cotton Kingdom"
In dealingewith The Cotton Kingdom the author.
wrl1AM E. DoDD, biographer Of JEFFERSON
DAVIS, starts with The Lover South in 1850,
point from which it is necessary to proceed back
ward only in occasional illusions, since this is not
a book Of political history, but delineaton Of
social life apd intellectual and moral atmosphere.
As such it 4 nearly perfect; and we would not
qualify our praise if we did not suppose absolute
perfection unattanable by any chronicer 1t is
fascinating End repellent picture that Mr. DoDD
puts on his canvas and he is careful to put in just
those thingsfhieh most crafty human curiosity
as that How'll COBB of Georgia was pointed out as
the master of thousand negroes, and that
healthy negro man, worth in 1845 about $3.50,