Church review . ffects of slavery onAmerica. The methods of slave dealersare described and the full horror of thetraffic made evident. It is hard to be-lieve that anything but public igno-rance allowed such crying abuses andgross crimes to go on unchecked fordecades. If the author were not so intenselyin earnest his style might have beenmore fluent and graceful, instead, how- florid occasionally, and in this bookone has to read many chapters beforethe interest is aroused. Then the in-terest becomes intense and the storyfascinating in its rapid sequence of ad-ventures. Of course, a love story i
Church review . ffects of slavery onAmerica. The methods of slave dealersare described and the full horror of thetraffic made evident. It is hard to be-lieve that anything but public igno-rance allowed such crying abuses andgross crimes to go on unchecked fordecades. If the author were not so intenselyin earnest his style might have beenmore fluent and graceful, instead, how- florid occasionally, and in this bookone has to read many chapters beforethe interest is aroused. Then the in-terest becomes intense and the storyfascinating in its rapid sequence of ad-ventures. Of course, a love story isclosely woven in such a novel. The story, being a sequel to th3 au-thors recent A Kent Squire, has init most of the characters of the pre-vious tale. The New- Epoch for Faith. By GeorgeA. Gordon, , 412 pages, 12 : Houghton, Mifflin & , $ The Age of Faith. By Amory H. Brad-ford, , 306 pages, 12 mo. Boston:Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Price, $ two volumes treating of the. From Literary Friends irnil Acquaintance. Copyright, 1900, by Harper & Brothe HOWELLS MEETING WITH BAYARD TAYLOR. ever, he piles fact upon fact in too sys-tematic a way for the casual reader andin insufficient detail for the table of contents is very full andcomplete. Gwynett of Thornhaugh. By FrederickW. Hayes. 442 pages, 12 mo. NewYork: F. M. Lupton Pub. Co. Price$ The period during the reign of LouisXIV. and his successor, when eventsbring France and England very closetogether, has been written of by Dumasmost successfully. Other very obviousimitators have failed to be Mr. Hayess credit he is not an imi-tator. He has faults of style, he is same subject have each an especialvalue, owing to the originality and in-dividuality of their respective and re-spected authors. These authors need no Gordon divides his study undersuch heads as: Things Assumed;The Advent of Humanity; The NewApplication of Christianity; The Dis-cipline of Do
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