12 The Conservative *
REVIEWS OF 15VANS1 NEW BOOK.
The following are oxtrncts from re
views of "Beitraoge Zur AmerikauiBchen
Litteratur nud Koltur-Geschichte :
"The author , we presume , is himself
an American , although this is certainly
not to bo inferred from any shortcomings
in hie handling of the German tongue.
Indeed , he writes more than good Ger
man ; ho lias a distinctive German style.
Ho has infused into the language some
thing of that quiet urbanity which
American prose learned from Emerson ,
and that genial irony which seems the
sublimated expression of America's pe
culiar humour. * * *
Mr. Evans' volume is a solid contribu
tion to the understanding of certain as
pects of American life and culture.
Books of this kind on America are not
BO common in England , or even in Amer
ica itself , that the author need restrict
himself to a German audience. "
LITERATURE ( London ) .
"The work deserves to be read with
attention , not only because it presents in
a fascinating form what is new and
worth knowing , but also on account of
the value attached nowadays to every
word , which brings America and Ger
many nearer to each other and teaches
them to understand one another better. "
LlTERAUISCHES CENTnALBLATTLeipsic ( ) .
"Perhaps no one has done more with
in the last two decades towards intro
ducing a fair estimate of American lit
erature and culture into Germany , and
towards removing many of the un
grounded misconceptions of our civiliz
ation , than Prof. Evans. For a number
of years he has contributed to the All-
geineine Zeitnng ; to the Berlin Nation ;
and to the Blaetter furLitterarificheUn-
terhalliug ( Leipzig ) a series of articles
on subjects connected with the history
of American literature and culture , and
the best of. these have been finally col
lected and revised , and reappear in the
volume now before us. * * *
These contributions arehoweveriu no
sense mere book reviews , but offer a
fund of original suggestion and criti
cism , rendered very attractive by an
abundance of allusion and of shrewd
humor. "
THE NATION. ( N. Y. )
The Atchison
CHRONOLOGY.
Globe of April 5 ,
in the weekly edition , gives the valuable
and interesting historical data herewith
appended :
"Ninety-seven years ago this week
Napoleon said to his minister , Barbe-
Marbois , that he had decided to cede the
whole of Louisiana to the United States.
Fifty-eight years ago this week Captain
Moore , U. S. A. , selected Fort Scott for
a military post. Forty-five years ago
this week one thousand Mjssouriaus
under Olaiborne F. Jackson ( afterwards
governor of Missouri ) arrived in Law
rence to vote , and they did vote. Forty-
1
four years ago this week Henry Ward
Beecher sent twenty-five Bibles and
twenty-five Sharp's rifles to one of the
Kansas colonies , and was joked all over
the country for the excess of Bibles.
Forty-three years ago this week a bill
was introduced in the Massachusetts
legislature appropriating $100,000 for the
Kansas free state settlers , and subse
quently it passed. Forty-two years ngo
this week Colonel James Montgomery's
baud killed two out of a company of
dragoons near Fort Scott who were try
ing to ride the free-staters down form
ing the only instance where United
States troops were fired upon during the
Kansas troubles. Forty years ago this
week Mr. Grow , of the committee on
territories , recommended the admission
of Kansas under the "Wyandotte consti
tution , and the first pony express loft St.
Joseph for the Pacific coast. Thirty-
nine years ago this week Lane and
Pomeroy were elected United States
senators on the first ballot. Thirty-five
years ago this week Eichmoud was
evacuated , and the Kansas towns held
great jubilees over the end of the war.
Thirty-one years ago this week the
Santa Fe first passed a locomotive over
the Topeka bridge the locomotive
named ' 0. K. '
being Holliday , after the
man who had just died at Topeka.
Twenty-eight years ago this week the
great E. P. Hammond revival was in
full swing , among its converts being
every member of a baseball club cap
tained at Lawrence by Dudley Haskell.
Eighteen years ago this week cyclones
damaged Fort Riley and other places
in Kansas , and Jesse James was killed
by Bob Ford in St. Joe. Seventeen
years ago this week Judge H. O. Me-
Comas , Mrs. McComas ( sister of Eugene
F. Ware ) , and their boy , Charley , were
killed by the Apaches near Silver City ,
New Mexico. "
In the District Court of Otoo County , Ne
braska.
Inthn matter of the" *
Guardianship of Goo. I In the District Court
F. Wilson , Daniel P. > of Otoo County , Ne-
Wilson and Herman braska.
F. Wilson , Minors. )
THIS cause came on for hearing on the peti
tion of Thomas Wilson , guardian of Gee F.
Wilson , Daniel P. Wilson and Herman F. Wil
son , minors , prayinc for a license to sell real
estate owned by said minors , towit , the north
half of the northeast quarter of Section thirty-
four , Township ten , north of Range ten , east ,
in Cass County , Nebraska , for purpose of
better investment , and it appearing to the
court that it would bo for the best interests of
the said minors that said herein described real
estate should be sold on the terms and at the
price mentioned in said petition , it is therefore
ordered and directed that the next of kin , and
all persons interested in said estate appear
before mo in open court at the court honso in
Nebraska City , Otoo County , Nebraska , on the
seventh day of May , 1000 , at two o'clock in the
afternoon of said day , to show cause why
license should not be granted to said guardian
to sell said real estate for the purpose set forth
in said petition , and to invest the money re
ceived for the sale of said lands and other
money on hand belonging to said wards as
prayed for in said petition , and that a copy of
this order bo published for four consecutive
weeks in THE CONSERVATIVE.
Dated this 8rd day of April , 1900.
PAUL JKSSEN ,
Judge of the District Court of Otoo County ,
Nebraska.
EATON & TIMBLIN ,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
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