BOOK REVIEWS: William and Mary College Quarterly 1895, Vol3, No. 3., pp 210-211.

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   THE COLONIAL CAVALIER, OR SOUTHERN LIFE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.  By Maude 
Wilder Goodwin.  Illustrated by
Harris Edwards.  New York:  Lovell, Coryell & Co.  1894.
   This little volume "aims only through local gossip and homely details of life 
and customs to open a side
door through which to gain a sense of fireside intimacy with the Colonial 
Cavaliler".  Mrs. Goodwin says,
"she is not of his kin", and her criticism appears to amount to the opinion that 
"he was naughty, but he
was nice".  The book is written in a charming style.  It is strange that Mrs. 
Goodwin does not quote the
opinion of Alexander Spotswood, who, as a soldier with marlborough, had seen all 
manner of people, and yet 
said that he had observed in the colony "less swearing, less profaneness, less 
drunkeness and debauchery,
less uncharitable feuds and animosities, and less knavery and villany, than in 
any part of the world where
my lot has been."  The opinion of such a statesman is more than gossip.  The 
"flame" of Gov. Nicholson is
not unknown, as Mrs. Goodwin suggests.  That lady was undoubtedly Martha 
Burwell, who married Henry
Armistead.  (QUARTERLY, II., 231, 232.)

   HERALDRY IN AMERICA.  By Eugene Zieber.  Published by the Department of 
Heraldry of The Bailey, Banks
& Biddle Company, Philadelphia.  1894.
   This work does credit to Mr. Zieber and to Philadelphia.  It is designed to 
meet a want long felt in
America for a popular work upon heraldry.  The writer has endeavored to group in 
a concise and intelligent
manner all that is necessary to enable the student correctly to interpret and 
apply the manifold laws of
the gentle science of arms.  In this respect the book is largely a compilation, 
as are all modern books
upon the subject.  It containes in addition a collection of material, gathered 
from the use of royal and 
other seals upon colonial documetns and individual coat-armor, upon old 
tombstones, hatchments, tablets,
family plate, wills, deeds, etc.  Virginia finds handsome representation in many 
ways.  I notice among
tombstones (p. 49) one of Major John Howell, of Southampton, Long Island, 
deceased 1696, bearing the same
arms as the Howells of Virginia.  As little is known, outside of tradition, 
regarding this family here, it
might be well to search the Long Island records regarding Major John Howell.

   SERMONS FOR THE CHURCH.  By Caleb Davis Bradlee, D.D., Pastor (pro tem) of 
Christ Church, Longwood.  
Boston:  George H. Ellis, 141 Franklin Street.  1893.
   We have in this book, which is neatly gotten up, twenty-four purifying and 
instructive sermons.  The
morality is lofty and beautifl.  The reference to the Roman Church on page 140 
might be omitted, for,
according to the

Page 211.

author himself, "God cares nothing for the badge on the forehead, whether there 
be engraved Unitarian or
Baptist, Orthodox, Episcopalian, Methodist, Universalist or Roman Catholic, but 
he asks for the badge on
the heart."

   JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.  By Samuel T. Pickard.  In two volumes.  Boston and 
New York:  Houghton, Mifflin
& Co., the Universitiy Riverside Press, Cambridge.  1894.
   This work is done in the best style of the celebrated publishers, whose 
impress it bears.  The long, active
life of John G. Whittier, as poet, politician and abolitionist, is faithfully 
and lovingly portrayed by
Mr. Pickard.  The author has his subject well in hand, and the work will 
maintain its deserved place among the
biographies of the country.  It is full of information regarding the politics of 
the country, and regarding
men and things.  Whittier's opposition to slavery arose from the deep persuasion 
of the faith to which he
belonged.  He regarded the holding of slaves as a sin, for which in some measure 
all were responsible while
the Union continued.  When, therefore, South Carolina seceded, Whittier was 
opposed to coercion.  In every
aspect of the case in which the matter can be viewed, the war was a plain of war 
of conquest.  As the work
of Mr. Pickard shows, no two independent nations were ever more foreign in 
feeling, in institutions, in 
thought, than the North and the South.  No country of Europe ever brought into 
the field larger armies or
possessed a territory more a unit in interests than the South; not only the 
theory of the Union which was
formed on consent was opposed to the war, but reason and nature.  And they 
opposed the war because a
restoration affected with slavery was only to confirm the distinctions of the 
two sections, and a restoration
without slavery was a conquest.  If the last was to be the character of the 
contest, then the country was
committed to a continual warfare with all nations whose institutions were impure 
and immoral from its
standpoint of conviction.  Mr. Pickard writes in good temper and spirit 
throughout, and I cordially
recommend his work to general perusal among Southern readers.

   REMINISCENCES OF A PORTRAIT PAINTER.  By George P. A. Healy.  Chicago:  A.C. 
McClurg & Co.,  1894.
Price, $1.25.
   This charming little work, all sunshine and nature, like the great painter's 
brightest efforts, relates
many pleasant anecdotes of the great with whom he was thrown in contact.  The 
details of his own life are
told with simplicity and truth.  The book is adorned with illustrations taken 
from Mr. Healy's own
paintings of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Lord Ashburton, the Queen of Roumania, 
Pope Pius IX., General Andrew
Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Guizot, Thiers, 
Gambetta, John James Audubon,
Longfellow, L'Abbe' Franze Liszt, and others.  The contents are:  Part I. A 
Sketch of my Life.  Part II. 
My Friends and my Letters - Thomas Conture, Crowns and Coronets, American 
Statesmen, French Statesmen,
Men of Letters.

   THE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.  By John Codman Ropes.  G. P. Putnam's Sons, New 
York and London, the
Knickerbocker Press.  1895.
   Nothing is more notable than the vast improvement which has been made in 
recent years in the study of
history.  Mr. Ropes's work is one of the best=