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THE UNION RECORDER, MILLEDCEV1LLE. GA., NOVEMBER 14, im
book reviews
By DR. ALICE C. HUNTER
M0C j,te ®f English Georgia Stale College for Women
rME TRACiG ERA
\ r Cl*udc G. Bower.
blon Mifflin Company, 1929
:■
mendatory arc the reviewers of the
southern press who have often re-
marked that Mr. Bowers has shown
his readers what the South experi
enced in the reconstruction days,
are .eldom pretty Pic does not expect splendid
lie the forgotten literature and truthful history to go
... of past days. Tis *omo- lh *nd in hand The writer of
J . k -i .i - the hollyhock border at acknowledged -literature lives in a
r edge of the decayed garden w° r ld of his own, filled with his
v :• show some straggling imagination, and all that he de-
>:..r is the attic a place of, vt “ lo Ps colored with his way of
M light, although it may l>e, thinking:. Mr. Bowers is rather the
3 ' • [ nil the house, to the sky. | historian who seeks facts and cn-
f t t h<* r * 1 fini * the daguerreotypes deavors to make himself the merely
'{■ ,1 - :r K-, and the pressed flow- Physical recorder of those facts.
I ()i - )• ne days. And for an'
, we forget otirselves in ^ CHILD’S GEOGRAPHY OF THE
t r , n - iT-.t - of other days. j WORLD
The r. :- - °f this 567 book By V. M. Hllly.r
the vast and detailed,
author. Footnotes The Century Company, N. Y., 1929
ry page. Multitudes of After more than twenty year's ex-
arshaled in formidable perience as a teacher of young chil-
aray. Documents of many kinds, j drt n, Mr. Hillyer, head master of
■pjpt-i magazines, diaries, per-, the Calvert School i; ; Baltimore, puts
I j,;*, rs have been searched and out this volume of 472 pages, which,
: reveal their bearing upon in manuscript form, he tried out on
j.},. A ! this sounds simple to one ‘ several clashes of nine-year olds.
|( , r;i. never tried to write a his-; Previously Mr. Hillyer had great suc-
. i iit. to one who has, the work cess with a similar volume on history
’_\; r . i;rs, in this monumental ( for young children. In addition to
: . stands out as the ef- his teaching experience the author
• • Herculean strength and pati- has travelled extensively, gathering n
It :• a great contribution to store of informational tid-bits which
, rapj.ily increasing library of, he strews through the present volume,
clean history. | The nart-ator Gambles briskly, not
f , :.-..gic era is that aftermath troubling his reader with ways and
th. war between the states—sorry means of arriving. He is pleasantly
v.r. n all seemed chaos and in-1 familiar in his style, frequently ro-
AII wars are followed bycalling his otyn childhood. For a
Lntuti'-n.- The children of the j book intended to be informational
r . , are insanity, idiocy; the , this volume is as far,removed from a
• ments are famine, disease, text ar could possibly bo managed.
Particularly sorrow-1 The vast quantity of items is almost
irs waged be-
;hi. e internal
f b-ments of a
very year is only 153 years
declaration of independence
t the tyranny of England. A
day, as entornal -time passes,
>e period between that epochal
and the coming of the first
to America. Compared with a
European nation the United States of
ica i« still a babe in swaddling
Many of the errors of the
= and the sixties were due to th?
pou*hfulr.c-s f.t the country. Men bad
t learned the art of living with
ieth* r on tho western contin-
• rapidly acquir-
ien«e wealth. All things were
adjusted, whether there had
len a war between the states or not.
ere had not been the quei
rights or slavery, some other
r question would have arisen.
Bj: a I Ithis Mr, Bowers, like a good
.n, avoids, for a good his-
should stick to his purpose,
•vvers’ purpose in The Tragic
to depict with vivid pen the
I:’* an.i psychology of the years that
iiately folowcd the
I sues, interlocking details of
and politicians. With every
and then a scarlet phrase he
the day and hour stand out
ires the reader on with history,
amber of the local state college
y happened to be reading The
i time as this
She remarked that to her
• ••tanding feature of the book
tV presentation of • notable
:u".i r f the era. She felt she
obtained a more definite under-
ie men from Bowers'
than shi* had gained from
r- ding or from college classes
can history. No thought-;
i n, reading the book, will be
• disagree with that verdict.
1 to having lived with An-
•l-.'ir.-.n, Charles Summer,
: Thad Stevens—and In most
r pleasanter—Is it to read
r-‘ able delineation of thes*
wrote American history:
-hing eyes, nngry lips,
Station. One feels that
I‘ --rs has spent many
I hour in dreaming o'
‘"rs nnd that his inter-'
history.
' '• to the grnpic portraits of
ler* comes the presentation
'!• movements, as the Ku Klux
and the development of the
’ Innting political parties of
tra. In connection with all this
Bn W crs has ransacked from dusty
r< *- a vast amound of informa-
J which he has set forth tersely.
dramatic instinct Mr. Bow-
'tiie curtain upon the stage of
country’# capital, and shows the
' s fair ladies and their follies
; and manners. Again
1 "ha twomen have played their
ij1 * ! -manship—yet always in
ti> k. op the blush from the
’■ "i" women who rend,
thourb the book is lately from
its first printing of one
J thousand copies has brought
Nation. Particularly com-
encyclopedic. One can imagine n
youthful render da-hing through to
emerge his head awhirl with ice
houses for Esquimaux and the Scotch
stone under tho English king’s coro
nation throne. But tho administra
tion of the volume by an adult, with
heart to heart talk* and modern ac
cessories might b? a very good thing |
for the boy or girl. Mr. Hillyer has
tried .a daring undertaking in master-
so many scientific facts without
assistance of ir any accredited
of science. , Even a cursory
reading discovers some lapses, but
the book is extremely interesting.
Tho publishers have sent it forth
with good type and makeup. The
illustrations are enticing. The alert
young reader, or listener, with be de
lighted with the book, and Santa
Cluus may be expected to carry many
thousands of copies in his pack
Christmas.
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“Since that time, thirty years ago.
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