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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. NERVOUS^OFFERING Lady Sty, She Took Cardoi, Felt Better In a Few Weeks, and Steadily Gained Health. Moscow. Ohio.—"I had been in awful, bad health for months nnd months,” says Mrs. Cynthia Staton, of this place. "My nerves were ‘all to pieces,’ and I was all run-down. "My back hurt all tho time, and I hnd to drag myself around tho house. 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