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OCTOBER 23. 1S37. THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS AND ART. Hera la Homespun" would hava roused a tempest of flares denial from both North i nd South thirty years but now, when both sides have agreed that, whatsoever mar be Mid of principles, there waa little to choose In other matters between tho white Americana, good and bad, on both Idea, It will ho rad dispassionately and with keen enjoyment of Ita dramaUo scenes. It baa a slight love but women appear la' it chieft ax Bearlnr a flag hastily, made with their own hand, they act aa vanguard for the loyal men marching acroaa the border, through wood guarded byy other loyalists, to Join tha Northern They aend their boya away with worda like those of the galUnt Casey to her eon: "Jack, when you git away off.

an you lay down at night to Bleep, you wan ter think. Jack, a ye you. 'Mae a prayln fur aaya you. An when yer git inter battle, an hit 'peara lack yer cyant do wut the Gen'rl hollera out fur yer to do, Juat you aaya to creel f. "M'i a prayla' fer aaya you.

an' you go ahead and do yer duty. An ef there'a any rough fellera tn the Lin-coin army, like a heap the rebs, that a drlnkln' an awearln', an glttln inter dev-llmalnt, an they want you ter go with 'em, you Jes aaya, aaya you, an' ef they keep aorter urgln' you, an' apeaterln' you eo'a you aorter feel lack doln' on it with them, aaya you to yeraelf, Ma's a pryn fer roe aaya you. An' It'll be bo! Fer thar won't be no wakln' hour, day nor nlgnt. when God loeklng down into my heart, an a lUtenln to hear ef I've tot aomethln -er other ter ask Htm, won't hear me a prayin fer you ter help ye tu be brave an' clean an' true an' spar" yer life an fetch yer back. "Good-bye, ma.

I won't do nothin' that I wouldn't do ef you waa thar or God," la Jack'a answer. It is this aame mother who rides all night and far Into the next afternoon to aave Gen. Spears from surprise by Klrby Smith. Still do the East Tennesseeans tell her atory, describing how she "Galloped down a road that waa held by the rebels, and when a sentinel called his 'Haiti Who goes answered 'A woman, and I won't and dashed by him. knowing that, he would not lire upon a woman; how she urged her horse up a rocky slope where never horse had carried a human soul, and where, aa they verily believe, only special Providential.

Intervention saved her from certain death. How she forded streams that were swimming deep, and came through dry as the Israelites passed through the sea; how once her horse fell beneath her on the edge of an abyss, but she rose unharmed and mounted and rode on again unharmed, the horse seeming to gather strength and courage from her own indomitable will." Still, also, they tell of the cruelties committed by both Southerner and Northerner from pure misadventure, and of the deliberate and Justifiable massacre of Roundstone Holler, when two bands' of daring robbers, one calling itself Unionist, the other wearing the name of Southern Regulators, coalesced to capture a TJnlon ammunition and commissary train, and were ambuscaded and exterminated by the loyal mountaineers whose farms and forests they had for month plundered and ravaged. Parson Brownlow, with his ability, when righteously Indignant, to use Scripture in a way that added to ita sanctity all tho effectiveness of profanity, is one of the characters, and also that army Chaplain who, when cheered with "Bully for Parson Barnes," rejoined. Boys, I thank you for cheering me, and I say with you, Bully for all the good men you've been cheering. But I want you to say.

and say it with all your hearts, Bully for Christ The book con-talna some criticism of the military wisdom displayed by the commanders of both armies. by the intricacies of affairs in a loyal! section of a disloyal border State, but the solu tion at then mv.ter.a "tha nrln.ry rondo; will leave to the veterans and the historians, and, such Is the Ingratitude of posterity. Is more than likely that he will be thankful for them, since they made life so interesting a generation ago. William Wilbtrforcc William Wllberforce will always bear the title of the Great Emancipator," and the Private Papers of William Wllberforce," just collected, and edited by A. M.

Wllberforce, will- be- of general Interest. There- is a curious Incident having to do with the letters written by Wllberforce to William Pitt, as a number of them were found In, a disused cupboard. Lord Rose-bery had copies of them made, and a small volume for private distribution waa printed. These letters are found In the present edition with the addition of many others. Wllberforce'a piety la well known, and he seems to have been most anxious that Will-lam Pitt should "get religion." But Pitt seemed to think that piety waa Impossible without asceticism, and in a letter of December, 17X3, he thua replies to Wllberforce: I cannot help expressing my fear that you are deluding yourself into principles which have but too much tendency to counteract your own object, and to render, your virtues and your talents useless, both to yourself and mankind.

For you confess that the character of religion Is not a gloomy one, and that it Ik not that of an enthusiast. But why then this preparation of solitude, which can hardly avoid tincturing the mind either with melancholy or superstition? If a Christian may act la th several relaltbna of life, must he seclude himself from them all to be- PBIVATB PAPERS OF WILLIAM WnjBER-FOKl'K. Collected am Edited, with a lref-ec. by A. M.

YYUtMrfurca. Loadoa' X. Haher liawk I come aoT Surely the principles, aa wen aa the practice, of Christianity are simple, and leaa 001 to meuiiauoa on 17 wut muk Wllberforce. having entered Parliament in 178 had not at the date of this letter fully broached the mala, tha great mission of his Ufa, tha emancipation of the slaves In the English colonies. Tha first active measure on his part, la this laudable direction, was la 1787, Xa the edition of the first few let ters, published by Lord Roaebery, particular mention' Is mada of tha above letter, and Lord Rosebery's note to It N8urely a memorable episode, this heart-searching of the young saint and the young Minister.

They went their different ways, 'each- fol lowing his high Ideal In tha way! that seemed best to In the relationship which existed be tween Pitt and Wllberforce, the former had so much to do with the momentous questions of tha hour as to' have little time to confer with Wllberforce, so Pitt writes: I should have much wished Jo talk over with you the events which have been passing, and the consequences to which they seem to lead. You know how much under all the circumstances I wished for peace, and my wlshea remain the aame. If Bonaparte can be made to feel that he is not to trample in succession on every nation tn Europe. But of thla I fear there la little chance, and without it I see no prospect but war." When William Pitt died (1806) Wllberforce lost his best friend. In 1821 Wllberforce thus wrote about this great Englishman at the beginning of his career: Mr.

Pitt was not long In the house of Commons before he took part in the debates. I was present the first time he spoke, and I well recollect the effect produced on the whole House; his friends had expected much from him, but he surpassed all their expectations, and Mr. Hatsell. the chief clerk, and a few of the older members who recollected his father declared that Mr. Pitt gave indications nf.being hla superior." In 1783 Pitt and Wllberforce went abroad, and Wllberforce wrote something which is highly amusing.

Probably Wllberforce was a serious man, and might have been upon. Could there ever have been the Idea entertained of a match between Will-lam Pitt and Mile. NeckerT Nevertheless Wllberforce wrote: It waa suggested to the late Lord Camden by Mr. Walpole, a particular friend of M. Neckcra.

that if Mr. Pitt should be disposed to offer his hand to Mile. afterward Mine, de Stael. such was the respect entertained for him by M. and Mme.

Necker, that he had no doubt the proposal would be accepted." Think of Mile. Anne Louise Oermalne Necker not aa Mme. de but as Mrs. William Pitt Continuing his description of Pitt, Wllberforce writes: Seldom has any man had a better opportunity of knowing another than I have possessed of being thoroughly acquainted with Mr. Pitt.

For weeks and months together I have spent hours with him every morning while he was transacting his common business with hla secretaries. Hundreds of times, probably, I have called him out of bed, and have, In short, seen him in every situation and In his most reserved moments. As he knew I should not ask anything of him. and aa he reposed so much confidence In me as to be persuaded I should never use any Information I might obtain from him for any unfair purpose, he talked freely before me of men and things, of actual, meditated, or questionable appointments and plans, projected speculations, Ac. No man, it has been stfld, is a hero to his valet de chambre, and If.

with all the opportunities I enjoyed of seeing Mr. Pitt in his most unguarded moments, he, nevertheless, appeared to me to be a man of extraordinary Intellect and moral powers, is due 'to him that it should be known that this opinion was formed by one In whose Instance Mr. Pitt's character was subjected to Its most severe test, which Rochefoucauld appeared to think could be stood by no human hero." The volume contains an occasional refer ence to conlemporaneoi nah More wrote to Wllberforce about the success of "Coelebs In Search of a Wife." (180D.) which volume went through ten editions the year It was published. One effect of Coelebs has pleased me. I always consider a bookseller In respect to a book as I do an undertaker with regard to death one considers a publication as the other does a corpse, as a thing to grow rich by, but not to ba -effected with." The Duke of Wellington before the allies had triumphed and Paris had a new King, wua rather disinclined to help Wllberforce by agitating the slave question In France.

He wrote te Wllberforce: I am quite convinced that the only mode In which the public opinion upon It here can bo brought to the state in which we wish to' see it is to keep the question out of discussion In England by public bodies and by the newspapers, and I must say that It is but fair toward the King of France not to make public In England that which he has not published to his subjects. We shalf do good In this question In France only in proportion aa we ahall anticipate and carry the publio opinion with us; and in recommending to avoid discussion at present In order to make some progrese In the opinion of France, I may lay claim to the merit of toe popularity which I should have acquired by having been the Instrument to prevail upon the French Government to prevent the renewal of the trade on that part ef the coast on which we had effectually abolished It during the war. I see that Mr. Whltbread mentioned the subject at a public meeting In the city, which I hope will be avoided at least till the French Government will have carried Into execution all It proposes to do at present," In history there are many changes after Waterloo, Prussia, was In an exhausted condition, and there must have been contrl-butlona raised In England for the relief of Germany. Anyhow.

Marshal Blucher wrote a letter of thanks to Wllberforce for some services rendered. In pounds shillings, and penes, and the Fire Eater's words are full of gratitude for benefits conferred: "Allow me. Sir, to present yon my most cordial thanks for this fresh service which 10a have rendered to suffering humanity. ma also entreat you. my truly nowa friend, you who so richly deserve the blessings of the whole human race, for having so courageously defends! their rights, to be the organ of my gratitude, and to present my acknowledgments to tha whole English Nation for their very generous assistance to my brave companions In arms and to tne survivors of those who have fallen.

May this liberality, which we cannot but receive aa an undoubted proof of the truest friendship and esteem, prove a fresh bond oX union between us. lougm iwr in est blessings which human nature Is capable of enjoying for Liberality and Peace May our high-spirited people be firmly united in so noble a confederacy, and may that union never be Interrupted." There pever lived a man mora charitable than was William Wllberforce. for ha gave away almost his entire Income. Ua waa practical Christian. Re lived long enough to secure the freedom" of the slave and to be a witness of the Reform act Miss at Work.

A GLIMPSE OF THE AUTHOR OF LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET." Miss Mary E. Braddon, whose style aad nw nf them have been favorably com pared by enthusiastic critics to those of Wllkle Collins. Is still. In her sixty-first year, as busy a woman In writing and read ing aa she was In 1804. when her uwr Audley's tVtcret" was published In Lon don and termsd one of the moat -senea-tinnJ novels that ever fell from an Eng lish nen.

Indeed, it was this novel which added a "new meaning to the word "sensa tional" and gave it freah currency in critical slang, of which it is now one of the pet terms, although still written wiuun quotation marks, in nnmber of The Windsor Mag- azlno her workrocn la well described, snd a sketch of the novelist tolling there is entertainingly drawn. In that whlte-pan-chamber la a very fine Chippendale cabinet full ef the manuscripts of Mis Braddon's novels and pUva. Miss Braddon, tn visit tells nB. haa two distinct hand writings, one for her correspondence and the ordinary business of life, and tne otaer fnr hr novels. The latter is a oacgwara hand, smaller, neater, and clearer than the other.

She makes, we are- told, very few corrections. With all hls the speed at which she writes is considerable. When things go well with her she produces on an averaza three closely written pages i manuscript, or about 1.800 words, an hour. She works, nowadays. In the mornings from 11 to 1 o'clock, nnd then she goes ou it 1 I 1 k.fnr.

InncH. HUf in HIT COIBUIUINIW 7 bygone days it waa no uncommon thing wnn her to worg all etay long, noi vm her den for luncheon. When she flrst applied herself seriously to novel writing it was her habit to write straight 'oft the so to speak, sometimes without know ing what was to oe me ma 01 per But gradually her method changed. Bne b.ui.M'-a much Odt- IV II n.l nhnflKtWI-Slid tO-dllV ShO IIIIC Ul IlUfc makes extensive sketches before she actual ly begins to write. Or unruly piois ana ruiv utiri 0 I 1 .1 nnpvnMtai in uiuiy mm hit- the middle, characters that ungratefully re fused to aevetop according 11m menta of their creator she has had a varied experience.

"Sometimes a plot has turned out so entirely refractory that It has had to be left severely alone; on more than one occasion Miss Uradcion nas louna nersen uim. it way for man? months, and has then taken It up and found la Iv mi asm AAV Klu a rwl Mallv. Hut She has never yet found herself short or idea MIIA.idi T'Vt aiicnrpal Inn. for her plots dawn for her out of all kinds of places. xne germ 01 ner iilbi.

iiuv kw fnrfv vesra Am in an ac- count In the State Trials of the trial of lxrd Grey of wars, wer cnaraciers in n-r the most part spun out of her own brain. though here ana mere oumi.uuu friend or acquaintance supplies her with a first vague outline. But perhaps the most becnuse the most unusual fest- ure 111 iin uiciiiuM adoption of a plrce of advice given her many 1 1 hah tw hup 1 ii a i-iniv rritifiam nf hr Mrlier novels was moat helpful. He advised her to attack ner mini voiumc uuer uwwui nrst." Miss Harraden 'a Fairy Book. The fairies of the present day are.

most of them, very unlike the irresponsible beings of a generation ago. They are not content to ride on the snownakes or rise from the waves; they are not satisfied with the hum ble duties of sweeping up the hearth and making soup and chopping wood. They have mission a mission to instruct the chil dren of men and explain to them the secrets of botany, physiology, ornithology, and the rest. They immigrated, so far as we can judge, from the practical country of France, and America is thoroughly peopled with them. Miss Harraden's fairies are like a certain class of nineteenth century women the embodiment of compromise.

They retain certain old-fashioned qualities. they apeak the language of youth. they quarrel and do mischief most refreshingly, they sometimes exist merely for the pleasure of being, as the soot falrlea and the fire falrlea, yet as a class they make their little struggle toward modernity. The his tory-fairies give points on William Caxton and Lady Jane Orey. the grammar falrlea throw out a hint regarding prepositions, and the flower fairies carelessly bring in a little Instruction on the subject of keeping cut flowers.

But Miss Harraden would be an other than herself if she did not give to her rltlng the quaint and philosophic turn that A NEW BOOK or THIS FAIRIES. By Beatrice Harrmti. Illuatratea oy r.una i. Mptia. Kara: H.

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BOSTON. Oct. 21. Whether Captain Mali an Is the moat prolific' of aerlous authors or whether he had a large Quantity of work -In reserve when hla flrst book appeared and conquered both England and the United. States la a question that only he could answer, but the Intervals between the appearance of books has been very short, and now with "Nelson" stm leading the whole fleet of literature passing in review before the public.

It Is announced that la December will appear "The Interest of tha United States In the Sea Power. Present and Fa-' ture." It Is a smaller volume than any of it. needeeMsors. aad mill be Issued by the same publishers, Messrs. Little, Brown ft Co.

Prof. Oscar Kuhns Wesleyan Univer-slty dedicated hie edition of Carya Dante to Prof. C. T. Winchester.

I H. IX Comparison with the last corrected Lon don. edition of Caxy shows that a surprts lng number of errors had crept evea Into the Indeg, but these have been revised. The Introduction, "originally two lectures. and afterward remodeled Into papers for r-the Methodist Review, has been for a third time cast Into a new shape.

The publishers of the book are Messrs. T. T. Croweil A Cow t- Tha UU of the new volume by Henryk.