Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . ks of Abraham Lincoln in themanner Jones does he will be wise tostay in Alabama or still farther awayfrom Kansas. Such letters have atendency to open up old wounds thatwe up here have been trying for fortyyears to get healed over and forgot-ten. But the reading of that lettercalled up memories that I have beentrying for forty years to forget, andhad thought I had almost gotten overit, but that letter reminds me thatthere has been a vacant chair in myhouse ever since the battle of the Wil-derness. Lincoln was the best friendthe South ever had, and had t
Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . ks of Abraham Lincoln in themanner Jones does he will be wise tostay in Alabama or still farther awayfrom Kansas. Such letters have atendency to open up old wounds thatwe up here have been trying for fortyyears to get healed over and forgot-ten. But the reading of that lettercalled up memories that I have beentrying for forty years to forget, andhad thought I had almost gotten overit, but that letter reminds me thatthere has been a vacant chair in myhouse ever since the battle of the Wil-derness. Lincoln was the best friendthe South ever had, and had theypaid any attention to his proclama-tion they would have kept theirslaves, but as they did not they freedtheir own slaves by their refusal tocomply with his proclamation. It isnot worth while to answer all ofJones tirade of abuse. History con-tradicts him clear through. I amsorry you published his letter, for Iwas almost sure such a spirit as Jonesmanifests had died out entirely. Hopeit will. S. A, Black. Manhattan, Kan., May 14, How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee,by Owen Wister. Macmillau Co., NewYork. The author of The Virginians longago gave ample evidence of the posses-sion of a rich vein of humor. The epi-sode of the mixed babies, and of the jobwhich the Virginian put up on the self-complacent, cock-sure drummer, are asgood as anything in Mark TwainsRoughing It. In this volume, there is fun from startto finish,—healthy, natural, contagious,irresistible fun. Of course, the butt ofthe ridicule is the Simplified Spelling—a fad which not long ago, assumed suchserious proportions as to capture aPresident. If Mr. Roosevelt can read thisvolume and resist its varied resources ofmerriment, he is stoical to a degree. The Bloody Likes, by Felix RichardCallaway. This volume of Memoirs, published bythe Author, who lives at Shreveport, La.,is extremely interesting reading to thosewho love to linger upon life-like reminis-cences of Old Times. ;Mr. Callaway was born in Crawf or
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