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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAU PORTLAND,4 SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8. -1908.
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OEN G, CALHOUN," by Qalllard
Hunt American Crisis series).
i-Tbls is volume 10 of an ex
lent series of well written and
very readable biographies. The
antbor in his, preface says: Ia tbii
book I endeavor to show not only the
chief events In the political career of
John C Calhoun, but his complete Iden
tification1 with, two opposing popular
movement;' how he 'helped to form a
broad batloti ah sentiment, the part lie
playedV WTtha struggle In hla state
against that sentiment. and his leader
ship f the triumphant sectional senti
ment. " I have ' shown that as he was a
popular leader, he was dominated by
popular forces and that his power lay
in hla correct Interpretation of the
will of the people. To study his publlo
life, therefore, is to study the course
I'm
south during
mninMitQus nerlod. when U lormeq
of publlo .opinion in
"' Into a great movement to resist a, great
er mosenjSft- I hy sketched his per
Xprfiai characteristics and his private
lit, which was beautiful In Us sim
plicity ahd purity, and have aimed to
Show that his personal ambition was
always subordinated to the cause with
which he was identified. It Is fortu
nate for the credit of our history that
the leadership . fell to such as he. -If
-lie bad been : matt of leas lofty -hr--
' acter and of less unselfish- ambition;
If he had tried to turn the great power
which ths people gave him to his own
"advantage, he would have made a reo
ord of honor " He dignified every;. ques
' t!on that he embraced, and It Is largely
' due to him that the struggle which
reached Its final crisis soon after hi;
J death has at length come to be treated
by dispassionate historians as ths of
fort: of honest men Impelled by honest
TRs itmnor nmiv irmniutir "
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id. thnr. that in ituitv the life of Cal
Atiatxla studv the course of publlo
j nfHniAn in smith durlner a mometi-'
?tout period, and he might have added
, rubllCi opinion throughout the United
States! for while Calhoun belonged to
the (South hfa Interest was national and
- bis ia-ttitude toward the Oregon and
'rYdHV situations was that of the wisest
and most; farrslghted statesman. He
-was one of a coterie of great states
Jthe like of whom America has
never since seen. Our civil war de
velops the immediately followlm
pnnrra.Hnn after Calhoun. Clay an
Vvebster, and we had great men, but
wit.li their greatness came more sordid
Interests, so with the passing of this
great triumvirate, with few exceptions,
our purely patriotic a talesman was a
' thing- of the past, and it is doubtful If
any three men who have gone Into pub
lic life since their time have left the
xiersonaJ impress uDOn the country that
$hey did. Believing this, we see the lm
. mense value of Just such biographies
. as the present. Viey bring us in close
' personal touch with the man, and give
as It were a view of public events from
the inside.
' Mr. Hunt's"' treatment of his subject
Is fair and impartial much more so
than his preface would lead one to ex
pect. The frontispiece of the book Is a por
trait of John C. Calhoun, the original
of which was given by him to John 8
Barbour of Virginia, It, became th
property of Mr. Barbour's son, the late
Senator Barbour, and was- upon the
. walls of his residence, Belmont, Va.,
' during the civil war. Senator Bar
, hour's realdenoe was occupied by fed
' - eral troops during one of Sheridan's
raids and a union soldier shot a hole
through the portrait, which can be
" ' plainly seen in the frontispiece por-
i trait. The picture now belongs to Miss
' Ellen C. Daingerfleld of Washington,
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'VL SWiTTVoii the Wheel," by Kather
"fie Cecil Thurston- This is a most
i brllllantlv told society story, and lo
cated in a small "town In Ireland. Like
V all of Mrs. Thurston's stories, it takes
' a firm grip Upon the reader's attention.
! and holds It securely to the end. One
? night call it the old, old story of love
f and suffering, with the woman in the
case getting the worst of It, as usual.
A man past his first youth, who has
seen only the hard, cold side of life.
:, who has labored unceasingly not only
and who, after prosperity came, married
--? a frivolous, shallow woman,, not be-
-cause he loved her In the least, but be
cause he entertained the belief that a
man of means should marry and have
a nursery full of children. A man of
Iron and steel, he had no pleasures, nor
,, even a ouicKening or tne heart, until
. one night, all unthinkingly, he looked
Into the eyes of a beautiful girl whom
he had never seen before, and he sud-
, denly awakened to thlnjrs he had never
dreamed of. She, just home from a
convent, with the heart and temppra
y ment of the Irish and Spanish blood,
which Oursed hotly through her veins,
knew that she. too, loved the man and
-that wa .r enough; what oart-d Rhe
whether he was married or not?
An oia priest watcning tne crisis ap
proach, told the girl the fable of the
-fly' that aMghted on the axle of a char-
lt, and threatened to sting the mule
.. If he did not go faster, but the mule
knew too much for him and replied:
"'Tls very little I care for your sting
T only fare about him that sits above
you, and that hurries me on with the
whip, or keeps me back with the reins.
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plenty who got to the border line,
did this seem, to be counted a seri-
nir time table gotten out by a western
railroad, and the book contains overh
300 pages. The author shows a detailed
and familiar knowledge of the country
some years ago, but much of the book
Is given over to conversations with
farmers ahd villagers who spun their
stories for - the edification of a good
listener, which undoubtedly the author
was.
Portland should feel itself fortunate
tha Mr. Johnson did not consider It
important enough to mention, except
as a point to measure the distance
to Astoria or The Dalies from, for he
certainly must have been in the coun
try before Portland's lid was clamped
down, and then he might have said of
this virtuous town, what he does of
Astoria, vis.; "If any families are poor
it is because of drink. Astoria's main
Street has 14 saloons In a third of a
mile, and all the towns and villages in
the valley seemed to be over-supplied
with drinking places in a somewhat
similar manner. , Apparently everyone
resorts to them fishermen and lumber
men, merchants and farmers, and while
I did not often see men wholly incapac
itated because of their potations, there
were
Nor d
ous falling, but. rather the natural
thing for any man to occasionally drink
to excess. As a visitor from Iowa ex
pressed himself ts me on the suhject,
'My sakes! it's awful, ain't It!'" And yet
the W. C Tt U. celebrated its 25 years
Of servloe in Oregon only last week!
In all seriousness, however, the book
would give a very erroneous impression
of the illiteracy and want of progress
and advancement In Oregon, and as the
book is written on' pretty much this
same style from the Grand Canyon of
Arlsona to Puget sound, the Inference
Is. that as a fair exponent of the coun-
Ltry, either as to climate, resources, ad-
vaiivriuuiii or iiijja.uuLn la 11 la a- leLiiuro.
The Illustrations, which are reproduced
from photographs, are excellent. The
Maomfllan Co. Price, 11.50.
"Dictionary of ths Bible." Edited by
James Hastings, D. D. The first of
his Important series of 10 volumes was
issued orr September 26 by Charles
Scrlbner's Sons.
The purpose of this work Is to give a
complete account of religion and ethics
throughout the world. It conalns arti
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and on all great ethical systems. It
also contains separate articles on every
separate religious belief and practice,
and on every ethical or philosophical
idea and custom. It will thus furnish
the material for a history of human
progress or decline throughout all the
ages of .the world and among all the
raoes of mankind. ,
Persons and places famous in the his
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study of it. When the subject belongs
to more then one religion, and is of
sufficient importance it Is treated, not by
a single writer but by a number of
writers, each in his own department.
Ethics is handled as thoroughly as re
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The teacher and the preacher will
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with the latest and most authoritative
Information over the whole range of his
work. . It is sold by subscription only.
-The Reminiscences of Lady Ran
dolph Churchill." This will be one of
the notable books of the season, a bril
liant woman's sparkling record of a
notable period of English political as,d
KaM Douflaa Wlfrgln Rlggs.
So bother me no mors, for I go fast or
slow without your ordering," . , T
"Don't you see that life is the chariot
and that we are the fllesall of us.
the clever ones like Stephen, the stupid
onesi'llks me ahd that the' chariot Is
driven by some great big power and
knows what we don't know," and then
the good priest goes on to draw his
moral, which the gin cans a amy
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out tna trageay or ner tire.
story,
Just as in the real world the author
takes her characters along the danger
ous path of forbidden passion until
there is no turning back, or breaking
off wholly, even If the desire was pres
ent which In this case wasn't, and
when she declared her love to the man,
his reply, "Then I'll go down to hell
for you," filled the want of her being,
and the fact that he had a wife and
children seemed no obstacle at all to
the girl or to the man till the day
after, ut with daylight, and friends,
and .the Tight and the wrong of It star
ing him in the face, he decided, man
like, to call tha thing off, in spite of
his deep and intense love for the girl
whose life he had blasted.
With her usual strength and subtlety
Mrs. Thurston has injected Into her
story at this point an Insistent ethical
question, which might well serve as a
motif for the play of some of our Ger
man dramatists.
The story is full of that rich,
quaint Irish village life that balances
midway between the! humorous and the
fathetie, and like all the characters that
he author has created In her other
works. In this they aire natural and
consistent, and some of them drawn
with exquisite nlceness and delicacy.
This is particularly true in the charac
ter of ''Father James," when he ad
monishes Stephen and points out the
path of duty to him. The book is
very hatidsomely bound with colered
frontispiece. Dodd. Mead V Co. J. K.
Gill, Portland. Price 11.60.
"The Courage of Captain Plum," by
James Oliver Curwood. If any one im
agines America is too new to furnish
romance, founded on historical faat.
they have but to read Mr. Curwood s
very interesting and thrilllngly exciting
story or tne adventures oi captain
Plum. Every once In a while -a fiction
writer digs up some Incident in the
history of America, that, owing to the
rapidity with which we have made his
tory in this country, has been buried
from sight, and makes a first-class ro
mance out of It And this Is what the
present book Is. The following descrip
tion of Captain Plum engages the good
will of the reader at once:
"Captain Nathaniel Plum, master and
owner of the sloop Typhoon, was en
gaged in nothing more important than
the smoking of an' enormous pipe.
Clouds of strongly odored smoke, tinted
with the Hunts of the setting sun. had
risen above his head in unremitting
volumes for at least a half hour. There
was Infinite contentment in his face."
But the contentment does not remain
long, for there is work for Captain
Plum to do on St. James island, where
the Mormons had set up their Island
kingdom and James Jesse Strang, their
king, defied all the regulations and laws
of the United States, and the orders of
Franklin Pierce, then president of the
United States. That such a condition
actually did exist has almost passed
nut of history and few. If any, of the
present generation ever knew of this
would-be kingdom. With the many
wives of the nuandam king, It is not
strange thatomances should grow out
of these peculiar conditions, and natur
ally so gallant a man as Captain Plum
should fall a victim. The love story
is strong and compelling and all the
characters real flesh and blood people,
while the style of narrative is straight
forward and direct
The atrocious crimes of the Mormon
king, the law-breaking deeds of his fol
lowers and the lonesome nnd wretched
condition of the women of the settle
ment are all graphically told, while the
gross Ignorance of the government and
the pitiful cowardice of those in au
thority portrays a condition of public
policy that would be astounding if we
did not see the same principles exer
cised In other -forms today.
This Is a story well worth the time
to read.
Historical novels, as a rule, are to be
avoided, but in a case like this, where
an event, in a way, is local, yet has a
bearing on general history, they are to
be commended. Bobbs. Merrill & Co.
Trlc 11 .50.
"Raw Gold," by Bert rand W. Sinclair.
This is a very cleverly written, well
told tale, in which the northwest mount
ed police play the prominent part. The
Story has its foundation in the crimes
pf some parties who waylaid a couple
of old-timers who were returning with
sacks of rsw gold. About the same
time Gordon MacRae, now of the north
west mounted police, came upon a party
wher. were illicitly distributing "moon
shine", whiskey, and there. resting
among the "moonshiners," he found
an old friend from the past days on
the cattle ranges of the south. (The
old friend, by the way, is the tiller of
tne tale.) MacRae Invites his friend
Sarge to accompany him buck to the
station, Sarge has been sent with a
bunch of horses to the quartermaster's
aapartment, and was returning with the
pflce of them, $10,000, strapped in a
belt around his waist. Together the
friends start off and in the twinkling of
an eye they are surprised on the way
and relieved of their valuables. While
hunting around to get their bearings
they come upon the first party who had
been robbed, one of them happening to
be another old friend who Just has time
to gasp out a description"1 of tss place
they had their gold cache, before he
breathed his last.
From this on the story Is one rapid
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It is, however, very well told, with a
brightness and piquancy that Is quite
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The author is familiar with the scenes
and people of his story, and brings into
It some very philosophical reflections.
Here, for Instance, when he is musing
on the changing conditions of the coun
try he says: r'It was a big life when
It lasted primitive, exhilarating, spiced
with danger that added sest to the
game; the petty sordid things of life
only came in on the iron trail. There
was no place for them In the west, the
dead-and-gone west that will soon be
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social . life. Few women have known
so many notable personages and played
so important a 'part In, English, polit
ical and' social life, added to which
Lady Randolph ' Churchill has been a
wide traveler and a keen observer. Her
memoirs - have been followed ' through
the pages of The Century with Interest
demanding their issts, complete, among
the autumn books. V Ths volume will
be a royal octavo, with 60 portraits of
royalties and other notable men and
women. - . . '..
"The Mongols In Russia," by Jere
miah Curtin, was published by Little,
Brown & Co, October 10."' It Is a con
tinuation of Jh'e history ttf this Inter
estlng race, .which was begun in his
"The Mongols" of last year. This vol
ume Is a vivid account of thslr ex
ploits and achievements in the semi-
barbaric days whsn they wera in . the
flush of their strength and power. It
takes up the story of their domination
of Russia until ths final break-up of
the horde at Saral In 1505 Sine
then their history Is an available record
of scattered events, but the facts col
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the result of years of original research,
during, whioh, because of hla extraor
dinary knowledge of eastern tongues,
Mr. Curtin was enabled to extraot
much information hitherto Inaccessi
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gased-in speechless wonder at the magic
contrlvanoe by which messenger boys
were made to move with breakneck
speed, barbers to shave thslr custom:
ars in, less than . a minute- and. heavy
a rate never aiiamen ny a living a pect
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It was all real to her.' She 'could
not doubt the evidence of her senses.
All those things were taking place ex
actly as depicted. , ,r
Presently an automobile came ' In
sight In the far background, moving
directly toward the audience at the rat
of at least a. mile a minute. Just as a
catastrophe seemed . -. inevitable. it
swerved aside, passed on and . disap
peared, v ' ;
Aunt Hepsy eould stand it no long
er. Hastily, grasping the hand of her
little niece aha rose and started swiftly
for the door. . '
. "Come along, Mlnervy!" she said.-'it
ain't safe to stay here any longer l That
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