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gave him also a little hold upon the life of the village he had entered. Presently he was a school-teacher, studying law “on the side,” and within ten years of the day he walked into Winchester he had established a record for successful endeavors which would be almost incredible today. In that short time he was admitted to the bar, elected to the Illinois legislature, had been prosecuting attorney, had been register of the land office at Springfield, had been secretary of state of Illinois, had been a judge of the supreme court of Illinois, presiding upon the bench, and was on his way to Washington to take his seat in the lower house of congress. The whole career, tragically short for a man with his capacity (he died at 48), contains little more except records of re-elections, three times to his seat in congress, and then the higher step into the senate, to which position he was elected three times, dying before the third term had expired.
Mr. Carr tells the story engagingly. The earlier portions of the book are, naturally, merely historical, but the major portion is reminiscent and possesses a quality which springs from the author’s intimate knowledge of and complete sympathy with his work. There are many valuable portraits as a feature of the volume, and in addition to the biographical material there are added many of the speeches of Douglas, and a detached article by Mr. Carr.
“Trix and Over the Moon”
All who love the horse, or the woman who loves horses, will want to have “Trix and Over the Moon,” by Amélie Rives, just published by Harper Bros., New York. This is a story of the woman who genuinely loves horses better than anything else in the world and who is pictured as a cheerful, healthy, practical Virginian who manages her own plantation and breeds her own horses with much more competence than is shown by her husband, a writer of very poor novels. The determination of this heroine, who is a mother as well as a matron, to ride her thoroughbred in the face of peculiar physical hazard, leads to a half-tragic revelation of the difference in the maternal passion as it exists in different women.
Miss Rives is none other than the famous Princess Troubetzkoy, and the illustrations are bv F. Walter Taylor. The binding is superb. Price, $1.00.
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Senator Douglas
The great Senator Stephen A. Douglas, “Little Giant” of the West, has at last been given a suitable biography. Clark E. Carr, author of “The Illini,” “Lincoln at Gettysburg,” and other volumes, is the writer and A. C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, are the publishers.
Mr. Carr could scarcely have chosen a more suitable subject, in his work of recording personal impressions of men and matters pertaining to national history during the period of the past half-century, than that to which he has now turned his attention. Stephen A. Douglas has been so closely identified, in the minds of the younger generations, at least, with a figure so overwhelmingly appealing and important—that of Abraham Lincoln—that he has suffered unduly by the comparison or association. There still remains a little group of men high in public life, or well known in the political world, who are fitted to write of Douglas from the vantage point of personal acquaintance and impression. Of these, who include Mr. Cannon, Senator Cul-lom and Mr. Carr, the last named had, perhaps, the closest acquaintance with “the little giant.” And it would have been a serious loss to American letters if the present work had been left unwritten.
The new biography is remarkably direct and pointed. There is a preliminary passage showing how Douglas has not been given credit in some quarters for all that he was and did, the obvious reason for which, mentioned in the foregoing, being touched upon. And then there is an excellent narrative, covering the rapidly moving story of Douglas’ life. It is recalled that his rise was extraordinary, even in a place and at a time when careers were often established almost overnight. At 20 years of age the unimpressively small youth—5 feet 4 inches in height—entered the town of Winchester, in Scott county, 111., carrying his coat over his arm, and looking for the beginning of a career. He had no acquaintances within a thousand miles and he had only a few cents in his pocket. But he appears, from Mr. Carr’s record, to have had something much more valuable than money, or even friends.
He had a capacity for work and a keen eye for opportunities. He came upon a group of people in the little village who were looking forward to an auction sale, and in a few minutes he was employed to keep a record of the sales. Three days at this work, netting him $6, gave him the first money he had ever earned, and