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THE CHICAGO BANKER
November 6, 1909]
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Books for the Little Folks
The greatest care is exercised to select only books of clean morals and high character for the reading of the little folks. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, make a specialty of such and have just issued “Story Land” by Murray and “Boys and Girls of ’77” by Smith. The book, “Story Land,” edited by Clara Murray, is made up of verse and prose by various authors, among whom the editor figures. The material, which is for small boys and girls, is well arranged.
Our old friends, the three Minute Men, adorn the cover of Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith’s story, “Boys and Girls of Seventy-seven.” The book belongs to the “Old Deerfield” series. The young New Englanders, whose experiences are related, are good patriots and the author describes the happenings in their lives with animation. The book is a worth while addition to Revolutionary literature for children. Charles Grun-wald furnishes illustrations. The story is intended, and is well calculated to instill patriotism in the breast of the young reader. Price 50 cents and $1.50 respectively.
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who happened to be on the Cambridge shore as the boy’s boat grated on the shingle. At headquarters the boy’s appearance and manner were sufficiently convincing of his loyalty to the Continental cause to obtain his release, and then a lucky exhibition of his skill with the rifle gained him permission to join Morgan’s men, despite the drawback of youth. But it was a man’s part the boy played as he accompanied Arnold’s ill-fated expedition up the Kennebec to the siege of Quebec and in a most interesting manner the author impresses upon youthful readers histo-ical facts while relating the adventures of his hero. Of course Donald is usually the center of the various scenes of this dramatic tale, but Uncle Dick has his share of attention also, and the pluck of both boy and man under the most trying circumstances and hardships is wholesomely inspiring to readers of all ages, for it was this which made the republic possible. The interesting book comes from the press of L. C. Page & Co., Boston, and sells for Si.50 and may be ordered of booksellers.
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Leslie M. Shaw, president of the First Mortgage Guarantee and Trust Company, Philadelphia, will make a number of speeches in Virginia.
Danton and the French Revolution
Charles F. Warwick set himself a great task in his proposal to write three books giving one to each of the three great names and periods of the French revolution, Mirabeau, Danton and Robespierre. These are three great names. The first two volumes have been written and have been published by George W. Jacobs & Co. of Philadelphia, in buckram covers emblazoned in blue and gold. In the second volume—Danton and the French Revolution—“the plebeian Danton,” archassassin, and framer, virtually, of the first French republic, stands forth, as sketched here, a rude hero—as one, rather, “whose vices partook of the heroic”—in the red tragedy in which he loomed so pronounced a figure; for, in major part, the views expressed are not, strange to say, the least unflattering. In truth, although one almost may-regard Mr. Warwick’s highly interesting work (a sequel, by the way, to “Mirabeau and the French Revolution”), as a history practically of the epoch itself, the scheme—the motif—has been somewhat to vindicate (not, however, that the author at heart approves them) the actions of this powerful character in, that is to say, a strictly historical sense, or, rather, in a sense strictly political. The man’s principal instrumentality in the inauguration of the Reign of Terror—in the bloody transfiguration of France—at all events is in a measure palliated, or tentatively justified, as a course of conduct pursued in logical conformity with a morbid spirit fostered by the cruel feudal tyranny of the centuries preceding, and which shed over the reign of Louis the Sixteenth its sinister glow. Men were not responsible, the writer asserts, for their acts, the inspiration to commit which had come, to the sansculottes at least, among whom, chief, perhaps, was the subject of this volume, in the infectious, or contagious, fever of headlong communistic delirium, we cannot, at this day, though, if careless, we may yet be enabled to do so, understand the posi-of the ultra-revolutionaries. It was a position, he possibly would maintain, similar to that which demoralizes a people in the presence of some devastating plague.
The volume is fully illustrated and will give the reader a clear idea of the trying times in Paris which astounded the world.
Published by George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, at $2.50 net.
A Splendid Book for Boys
“Marching with Morgan,” treating of revolutionary days, will be a stimulating book for the youth of the country. In this splendid juvenile John V. Lane has so happily combined historical fact and dashing adventure that the result can be most unreservedly commended. The stirring period immediately succeeding the battle of Bunker Hill is the setting of this story, the time when many a boy of New England forever put away childish thoughts and deeds and in their stead assumed the responsibilities of manhood. Among these patriotic youths was a certain Donald Lovell, who lived in Boston with his dearly loved Uncle Dick. At the time the story opens Uncle Dick was absent on a dangerous mission for the Continental army״ and the boy was left to his own devices. One of these was to play a practical joke upon a notorious “lobster-back” which nearly resulted in a serious dilemma for its perpetrator. However, Donald escaped conviction of the deed, and then events turned his attention to far more important matters than boyish pranks. Turned out of his home by a rascally Tory who managed to secure its possession because of the absence of its owner, and consumed with anxiety concerning the fate of his uncle, the 14-year-old boy determined to risk arrest and death as a spy by stealing out of the city to the Continental headquarters at Cambridge. It was fortunate indeed for Donald that it was no other than honest Zeb of Morgan’s Virginia Riflemen