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Forty Years of Active Service. By
Charles T. O'Ferrall. Cloth; hand- I
ome binding. New York: The
Neale Publishing Company, Broad
way, Fifth avenue and Twenty -
third street. Price, $2.
Col. O’Farrall was a Governor of
Virginia, a politician in the best sense,
a judge and a Confederate veteran.
His book, according to the title page,
i? some history of the war between
the Confederacy and the Union and
the events leading up to it, with remi
niscences of the struggle and accounts
of the author's experiences of four
years from private to lientenant colo
nel and acting colonel in the cavalry
ot the Army of Northern Virginia;
also much of the history of Virginia
and the nation in which the author
took part for many years in political
conventions and on the hustings and
as a lawyer,' member of the Legislature
of Virginia, judge, member of the
House of Representatives of the United
States and Governor of Virginia.
In this work the author has drawn
graphic pen pictures of his contem
poraries in public life, and has quoted
copiously from their brilliant speeches
on the floor of the House of Represent
atives, especially those pregnant with
sarcasm, humor and wit. The young
man entering politics can take this
volume as a handbook, and with it he
can begin his public life with the
knowledge usually acquired only as
the result of many years of experience.
It is a condensed history of many of
the important political questions that
have been presented to the American
people for solution in the past forty
years, and is of as much value to the
Republican as to the Democrat.
The book from the first page to the
last has been written in the spirit of
fairness, good nature, and with the
desire to avoid arousing sectional ani
mosities. As the author says of the
whole work, it is “written in the spirit
of a fraternal union of the two sec
tions of our once divided but now re
united land.”
The History of North America. Guy
Carleton I.ee, Ph. D., Editor in
chief. Cloth binding: gilt tops;
rough edges; illustrated. Philadel
phia: George Barrie & Sons, 1313
Walnut street.
This history of North America may
justly be regarded as one of the most
remarkable works of its kind, ever pub
lished.
Few persons can realise what is in
volved in the preparation of such a
work as "The History of North Amer
ica.” It is, however, less difficult to
realize the spirit of enterprise that
must influence the publishers of such
a work, to whom the question “Will
it pay?” must present itself with in
vincible force. The final difficulty was
removed by the acceptance of the re
sponsibility of publishing by the firm
of George Barrie & Sons, Philadelphia,
whose select editions cover a wide
range of literature and are familiar
and treasured friends in the libraries
of two continents.
We are now' in a position to pass
judgment on "The History of North
America,” for four volumes of the se
ries are before us. The first of these
is entitled “Discovery and Explora
tion,” and presents the reader with a
review of the status of geographical
science and navigation in the Old
World; traces the causes and influ
ences that led to the turning of the
prows of the venturesome mariners to
the unknown West, and reviews the
traditional and recorded visits of the
ancients and the "Pre-Columbian Voy
ages"— ihe missionaries, the Norsemen,
with transcripts from the Sagas as
to their journeys and settlements in
America. The original voyage of Co
lumbus is given at length, and, al
though it occupies so considerable a
part of the volume, its peculiar inter
est is such that we would not have it
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curtailed; moreover, it is a feature so
unfamiliar that it gives an additional
value and interest to what is other
wise of rare worth. One cannot read
this journal without a feeling of in
creased reverence for the great ad
miral as we follow him in the difficul
ties and dangers which beset him. as
we read of his mighty faith and hopes;
of his frequent discouragements; of
his accomplishments in his incalculably
immense gift to the world: of his final
neglect, abandonment, and belittling,
which he records in the tone of a
heartbroken man.
In succession come the narrations of
the daring Spanish adventurers who
pursued his work and explored the
Gulf of Mexico and the land to the
south and west; the voyages and dis
coveries of the Cabots from England,
who pierced the mystery that shrouded
the northern shore of the Atlantic and
traced the land southward: those of
the Cortereats, whose daring resulted
in the loss of their leader, but was of
much added interest and knowledge
of the New World; and of others, who,
defying dangers, sought the shores of
America in their endeavor to find the
waterway they believed to exist as a
route to the Indies. Space will not
permit us to follow in the track of
Cortes in his conquest of Mexico, nor
in those of Ponce de Leon. Narvaez,
De Ayllon, De Soto, and the many
others whose expeditions are recounted
in the pages before us; nor the ac
counts of the indigenes they encoun
tered; nor those of the French naviga
tors, Ribault, Verrazano, Laudonniere,
and Cartier, and their fateful colonial
ventures; the exploration of the Cana
dian river and its tributary lakes; the
discovery and exploration of the Mis
sissippi by Joliet and Marquette and
Le Salle. The enterprises of Gilbert
and Raleigh; the discoveries of Hud
son, Block, Christiansen and May; the
thrilling adventures of Champlain; and
the story of the daring adventurers
who penetrated Che mazes of the froz
en Arctic and delineated the north
ern confines of the American continent
—these are all traced in the volume be
fore us, in a series of narrations which
for interest cannot be excelled. There
is a pecliar fitness and charm in all
these narrations, which have been told
largely in the words of the actors and
spectators of the events related. The
text is a most valuable contribution to
history—to many it will be a revela
tion—while to all it is a source of
readily available and trustworthy in
formation on one of the most impor
tant branches of American history.
In the second volume, entitled “In
dians in Historic Times,” we have a
work of unusual value. The author,
Dr. Cyrus Thomas, and his collabora
tor, Professor W. J. McGee, are men
who for their close study of the sub
ject in question have acquired much
more than national reputation-—one
cannot read the volume without being
impressed with its exactitude, thor
oughness. and completeness. The
various tribes that once peopled the
northern section of our continent are
traced as to their sources, their cus
toms, their organization, their systems
of government, their intertribal con
flicts, and their relations with the
intruding whites.
An ample narrative is given of the
conflicts of the pioneer Spaniards who
invaded the domain of the Indians in
Mexico, Florida, and the South; of the
French and English in their respec
tive spheres of influence; of the end
less intrigues between the Europeans
and the Indians in the course of the
long and bitter struggles for political
and commercial advantage on the part
of the rival European colonists and
settlers; and of the red man's long
protracted contest with the settlers
and colonists. Indian diplomacy and
savagery in all their degrees of bar
barity are told in this volume, and the
various agreements and concessions
that have gradually shorn the Indian
of his empire and placed him la a posi-
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tion of guardianship. A valuable fea
ture is that which treats of the Indian
ethnologieally, and of his influence on
civilization, as well as that which sets
forth Vi- policy of the United States
governnuat toward the indigenous
population.
The third volume, "The Colonization
of the South.” is a masterly setting
forth of a series of the most fascinat
ing stories in the nation's history, and
it is told in such a manner as to hold
the reader's willing attention. Be
ginning with the Spaniards in Florida,
the relation of their adventures, the
vicissitudes of their fortunes, their
overthrow of the French Huguenot
colony, are given with a wealth of
incident and with a sharpness of out
line and transparency that present a
most aninfated and intelligible picture.
The story is made clear in every fea
ture by concise statement of the Eu
ropean conditions in so far as they
are the causative influences of New
World movements. The interest of
France and Spain in the South wanes,
and in its place we Wave the story of
the planting of the Anglo-Saxon in
Virginia, the pathetic account of the
first settlements at Roanoke, the fight
with nature, growth of British insti
tutions, the struggle with the proprie
tors, home life, internal dissensions,
representative government. Indian
troubles, the nascent spirit of rebel
lion manifested in the case of the
Stamp Act; thus the foundation and
upbuilding of the Virginia colony are
placed clearly before the reader. Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida
have a similarly comprehensive pre
sentation; while the story of Louisiana
is given in terms that cannot fail to
interest the reader and amply reward
him for his perusal. The romance
and matter of fact of colonization find
their fulness of expression in this
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voice a just appreciation of this vol
ume, which from the first page to the
last bears unmistakable evidence of
the writer’s keen grasp of the peculiar
conditions that co-operated to form the
characteristic South. The romantic
and the realistic, the chivalrous cava
lier, the proud, boastful Spaniard, the
courtly and insinuating Caul, the pa
tient and persevering Swiss, the un
swerving and tenacious Scotch-Irish,
the stolid and industrious German, are
all passed in review' and the separate
influences that each has contributed to
the making of a great nation are terse
ly but Instructively woven into a gen
ii .il story. The clash of the pioneer
traders, the intrigues and counter in
trigues of the opposing nationalities in
their relations with the Indians, the
early struggle of the settlers, the par
ticularistic conditions of the colonies,
all these and much more have been
given their due place, and the lines of
cleavage, as well as the points of com
Uncle Mingo on the
The Chadwich Case.
By W. T. WILLIAMS.
“Bat Chadwick case up Nort’,” said
the waiter, “is sho one ob de mos' re
markables’ cases <fat has ebber come
under my observation.”
“It is rudder peculiar," said Uncle
Mingo; “an’ een applyin’ de word ‘pe
culiar,’ I wants to s’plain de correc’
meanin’ ob de rtame een dis case. It
come from de Latin word ‘pecu,’ mon
ey, an’ de French word ‘liar,’ de tran
substantion ob wich I don't need to
dwell upon at dis time, bein’ werry
ebbident.”
"Wen de paper fus’ start to talk
'bout de case,” said the w*alter, “I
didn’t pay no ’tention to it. Derefo’, I
ain’t sho dat I got de right idee on de
subjec’. How did it start?”
“You kin sarch me,” said Uncle Min
go; “blame if I know. I don’t know
de start ob de business, an’ I don’t
know de finish.”
know de finish neider.”
"Wot I want to know,” rtaid the
waiter, "is how did de lady git people
to len’ her so much money?”
“As to dat,” said Uncle Mingo, “you
ain’t de only feller who is een de dark
on dat pint. An' wot’s mo’, I reckon
de fellers wot done de lendin’ Is won
derin’ dat same way mo’ (fan anybody
else.
"I spec’, dough, it happen sumpln’
like dis:
“One day, way back yonder, de lady
fin’ she stan’ een need ob a little ready
money for w*arious small expenses, sich
as de house rent, de cook, de washer
woman, de gas bill, an’ so on. So she
go to de bank an’ try to borry fifty or
sixty dollars.
“ ‘Sorry, ma'am,’ say de Wank man;
‘We is werry anxious to 'blige you,
but de trut’ Is de bank Is sca'ce o’
ready money to-day, an’ It's quite im
possible to furnish de ’commodation.’
"So she had to sen’ de house gill
roun’ to her uncle's wid de clock an’
de parlor lamp an' a few udder sich
tings, an’ by one means an’ anudder
mortage to scrape togedder de neces
sary fun's.
“Bumbye she read een de paper de
’count of a case ober een Europe how
easy a smart lady had work de rich
fellers an' de barks for millions an’
millions o’ dollars, or wotebber dey
calls dem ober dere. Dat set her to
studyin' an’ ruminatin’.
" ’Wot a fool I Is,’ she say to her
self; ’here 1 Htan’s like a bump on a
log, resortin' to all kin's of ’sperl
ments to raise a few dollars, an’ Jis
look at dis udder 'oman! l'se sho,'
she say, 'dat I is lots mo' better look
in’ dan wot she Is, judgin' from de
picture; an’ I likewise flutters myself
I has got mo sense. 1 hasn’t been go
ill' 'bout de matter right.' ah* say.
“Mo she eoncoe' her plan, an’ itnml
gllly perceed to execute de same.
“Fus', she go to work an' make ur
de mos* templin' an' Imposin’ lookin’
package you ebber did see. Hhe gedder
togedder a (jnsepln, a can-opener key,
two beer bottle stoppers, fo’ toba<-ker
tags, a ole las’ year almanac an' de
adwertlatn’ sheets of one of de New
York ftunday papers. Deae she wrop
up werry neat an' careful wn a nice
■ lean piece o’ yaller paper, tie It up
werry particular wid pink string, an'
mon interest, traced and interwoven
into a story that is fascinating while
being instructive. It is always in
forming and ever interesting. It is
easy to discern that the author's work
is one of complete familiarity with his
subject and love of it.
My I-ost Fifteen Years. Mrs. May
'brick’s Own Story. By Florence
Elizabeth Maybrick. New York:
Funk & Wagnalls. Cloth; price,
$1.20 net.
It is unnecessary to identify Mrs.
Maybrick. Everybody knows of her.
For fifteen years she languished in an
English prison for a crime which she
says she is entirely Innocent. Stripped
of her fortune, stripped of her children,
Mrs. Maybrick returns to her native
America and tells her sad story, a
story full of the most intense, personal
interest. She has written with her
own hand a book giving for the first
time her side of this awful tragedy.
It is a most deeply interesting story
from beginning to end. Only a frag
ment of this thrilling history has been
told in the newspapers or magazines.
In her Foreword Mrs. May
brick quotes from the sketch of her
ancestry written by Gail Hamilton,
which proves that she is descended, on
both paternal and maternal sides, from
good American stock—the Thurstons,
the Ingrahams, the Phillipses and the
Holbrooks of New England, and the
Campbells and Chandlers of Georgia.
The story is told without affecta
tion, and is a powerful narrative.
Some extracts from it follow:
Mrs. Maybrick was condemned to
spend the first nine months at Wok
ing Prison in solitary confinement.
"I followed the warder to a door,
perhaps not more than two feet In
width. She unlocked It and said, 'Pass
in.' I stepped forward, but started
back in horror. Through the open
door I saw, by the dim light of a
small window that was never cleaned,
a cell seven feet by four.
“ 'Oh. don’t put me in there!' I cried,
‘I can not bear it.’
"For answer the warder took me
roughly by the shoulder, gave me a
push, and shut the door. There was
nothing to sit upon but the cold slate
floor. I sank to my knees. I felt
suffocated. It seemed that the walls
were drawing nearer and nearer to
gether, and presently the life would
be crushed out of me. I sprang to
my feet and beat wildly with my
hands against the door. ‘For God’s
sake let me out! Let me out!’ But
my voice could not penetrate that
massive barrier, and exhausted I sank
once more to the floor. I cannot re
cnll those nine months of solitary con
finement without a feeling of horror.
My cell contained only a hammock
rolled up in a corner, and three
shelves let into the wall—no table nor
stool. For a seat I was compelled
to place my bedclothes on the floor.”
After giving a graphic picture of the
deadly routine of this period, when
even the daily exercise Is taken in a
stone-flagged, ugly, walled yard, "more
like a bear-pit than an airing-ground
for human beings,” Mrs. Maybrick
digresses in a characteristic manner
most significant of her altruistic spirit,
in order to voice some heartfelt ob
servations on the indefensible cruelty
of solitary confinement;
“Solitary confinement is by far the
most cruel feature of English penal
servitude. It inflicts upon the prisoner
at the commencement of her sentence,
when most sensitive to the horrors
which prison punishment entails, the
voiceless solitude, the hopeless mono
tony, the long vista of to-morrow, to
morrow, to-morrow stretching before
her. all filled with desolation and de
pair. Once a prisoner has crossed the
threshold of a convict prison, not
only is she dead to the world, but she
is expected in word and deed to lose
or forget every vestige of her per
sonality. Verily,
“ ‘The mills of the gods grind slowly,
But they grind exceedingly small.
And woe to the wight unholy
On whom those millstones fall.*
"So it is with the Penal Code which
directs this vast machinery, doing its
den seal It up wfd green sealln wax,
Wen she git It all tlx up It was a
mighty fine lookin' package, specially
after she had write on de outside een
blue Ink, $5,000,000 eenside. Handle
wid care.’
“Takln’ dis precious package an’ also
a few udder papers een her han’
satchel, she dribe roun’ to de bank, an’
ax to see de president. Cose she was
fix up werry elegant for de ’caslon.
"‘I would like,’ she say, ’to be
’eommodated wid a triflin' loan on dese
notes,' handin’ out a few papers
holdln' de nnme ob de rulers ob
finance. ‘Likewise,’ she say, ‘I will, to
show how much trus' an' confidence
I has een your honesty an’ sharp bus
iness 'blllty, entrus’ to your keepin’
dis little bundle ob securities.
“She han' ober de beautiful package
wid de mystic wrltln' carelessly wis
lblo on top.
“De bank president mos’ fall down
een a fit, he was dat flabbergasted.
“ ‘How kin I ebber tank you suffi
cient. madam,’ he say, ‘for sich a con
vincin' proof ob your wnlued confi
dence. an' esteem? Likewise, wot kin
I do to ’commodate you dis mornln’?
You done me de fabor,’ he say. ‘ob re
markin' dat you wish to git some com
modation; kln'ly drop me a hint ob
how much you 1* goln' to be generous
'bough to permit us to advance you?’
" ‘O, not much to-day,’ she say, kin’
o' careless like: ‘my needs is not werry
urgent. I guess,’ she say, ‘two hundred
an' fifty tousan' will do for dis 'csslon.'
“ ’Wat!’ say de president, ‘not mo’
dsn dul ? Is you sho dat sich a triflin'
sum will be sufficient enough to meet
your ’qulrements?'
'* 'Yes, ’nough for to-day; you see/
she say, wid a sweet smile, ‘I kin’ call
again!’ "
“Now dat nhe has git een sich
trouble,” remarked the waiter, "won’t
do ole man hurry home to see her troo?
1 notices de paper any ho io ober eon
Europe aoinew'ereo."
“O yes. he’s aimin’,” gald Unci#
Mingo. “He Is werry anxious an’ Im
patient to hurry. He say he ain’t mads
no ’rongomvnts yet, but dat he Is link.
In’ ’bout sailin’ een de rose ob a week
or ten days or so Kbbidetiily he is
convinced oh de tint' ob de 010 Say In/
1M mo' has’s, da ' m speed.' "
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utmost with tireless, ceaseless revolu
tions to mold body and soul slowly,
remorselessly, into the shape demand
ed by Act of Parliament.”
Mrs. Maybrick especially deplores the
debasing effect of the harsh prison
regime upon young girls.
“The conviction of young girls to
penal servitude is shocking, for it de
stroys the chief power of prevention
thnt prisons are supposed to possess,
and accustoms the young criminal to
a reality which has far less terror for
her than the idea of it had. Prison life
Is entirely demoralizing to any girl
under twenty years of age, and it is to
prevent such demoralizing Influence
upon young girls that some more
humane system of punishment should
be enacted.”
The example of Mrs. Maybrick her
self is an instance of the ability of
a mature woman to rise above the
debilitating Influence of prison life,
yet only by the exercise of most reso
lute determination and severe disci
pline.
“I felt it would be a humiliation to
have It assumed that 1 could or would
deteriorate because of my environment.
I therefore made it a point never to
yield to that feeling of Indifference
which is the almost universal outcome
of prison life. I soon found that this
self-imposed regimen acted as a whole
some moral tonic, and so. Instead of
falling under the naturally baneful In
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something like a feeling of resentment;
but when they came to know me this
soon wore off, and I have reason to
believe that my example of unvarying
neatness and civility did not fall In In
fluencing others to look a bit more
after their personal appearance and to
modify their speech. At any rate, It
had this effect: Alyesbury Prison Is
the training school for female wardors
for all county prisons. Having served
a month’s probation here, they are
recommended, if efficient In enforcing
the prison ‘discipline,’ for transference
to analogous establishments In the
counties, it Happened not Infrequent
ly, therefore, that new-comers were
taken to my cell as the model on which
all others should be patterned.”
MOVING OF MONUMENT*
TO TOM PAINE.
lteenlls the Steeling of the I’Htrlot's
Hones ut New Rochelle.
New York, Dec. 11—The city au
thorities of New Rochelle have moved
the Toni Paine monument, which for
seventy years has been a landmark of
North street, to a location. Ow
ing to the widening of the street Into
a boulevard the monument will be set
back about twenty feet, where it will
stand on the farm given the author of
the “Age of Reason,” by the state of
New York.
The change was made under the di-
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rection of the commissioner of public
works, and required several days, as
the monument weighs several tons.
Great care had to be taken not to
break the bust, which surmount it.
The monument is set In a concrete
foundation, surrounded by anew iron
fence.
Strange as it may seem, Paine’s
bones do not rest beneath the monu
ment. Twenty-two years after he was
burled the bones were stolen, pre
sumably by William Gobett, the Eng
lish agitator. It Is stated that Cobett
went at night with two colored men.
and under the pretext that he was to
take the body to England to bury it
iri Westminster Abbey, dug it up and
sent it away in a covered wagon. Maj.
Andrew Coutant of New Rochelle, a
former friend of Paine, was passing
at the time, and saw the men’at work
with lanterns. He notified the New
Rochelle constables, who pursued the
wagon to Harlem Bridge, where they
lost track of It.
Numerous theories have been ad
vanced as to Oobett’s motive In steal
ing Paine’s body, and as to the subse
quent disposition of It, According to
one story, the people of England re
fused to allow the body to be buried
In Westminster Abbey, and Cobett, to
avoid arrest, threw It into the Thames.
Others say that the body was exhibited
in a museum, and still others say It
was taken to the East Indies. The
Paine monument is visited annually by
thousands of tourists.
The followers of the great patriot
hold annual memorial service there,
Usually on July Fourth.
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