People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — THE GREAT DEBATE. [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT DEBATE.

The official report of the recent debate between Roswell G. Horr, editor of the New York Tribune, and William H. Harvey, the author of Coin's Financial School, is a massive book of 544 large pages, price 50c. A copy has just been received at this office, and in a few days a supply will be at hand to accommodate all those who have been so patiently waiting for it. This book is undoubtedly an encyclopedia of every phase of the silver question, and the facts given must be accepted by all disputants as authentic. It will be the reference book of all parties during the next campaign, and containing, as it does, the arguments of the accredited champions of both sides of the silver controversy, it is being sought after by every impartial student of the living political issues. Send 50c to the Pilot for The Great Debate.

Of the manuscripts left unpublished by Robert Louis Stevenson at his death (not many, by the way >, the first to reach the public is a collection of very original ••Fables" in the September number of McClure's Magazine. One of them isaconversation between John Silver and “Cap'n" Smollett, of "Treasure Island." which is as delicious in its way as anything those worthies do or say in "Treasure Island" itself. In the same number Anthony Hope relates another adventure of the evercharming Princess Osra. an encounter in the forests of Zeuda with an attractive and most courteous highwayman. There is also a romantic tale of court intrigue by Stanley J. Weyrnau, and a new Drumtochty story by lan Maclaren, the author of "Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush." Elizabeth Stuart Phelps supplies an admiring review of an earlier story of lan Maclaren's, "Afterwards." which appeared in McClure's last spring. Of the illustrated articles. Clevland Mos-

j fett's interesting account of the artist Will H. Low, and his work, with the beautiful reproductions of drawings and paintings, must be mentioned first; but. in the nature of things, a greater thrill is to be derived from Mr. Garrett ; P. Serviss’s account of the ex- ; periences of an amature mountaineer in climbing the Matterj horn. In addition to these, there are authoritative articles-, with plenty of pictures, on the AmerI ’ca'scup and the contests over it, ; past and soon to come; an account of John Kelly's resuscitation of ; Tammany as a political power, from the dissolution in which it had been left by Tweed; a story from the Pinkerton archives of a long-mysterious express robbery; and an account by “Edmund jKirke." derived largely from ; Garfield himself, of Garfield's ride at Chickamauga up a per- ! fectly exposed hillside, under the j enemy's constant fire.