Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — “A Royal Gentleman” [ARTICLE]

“A Royal Gentleman”

Is tb« title #f another book from th« graphic pen of Judge Tourgee.the famous author of “A Fool’s Ernnd.” ltis to be sold bj subscription." In point of romstio interest, “ A Royal Otnlltman’'\B undoubtedlj the strongest of Judg£ Tourgee’s novels,fer the threads of love, mystery, adventure rcrime, and war, and the play and interplay of personal forces and passions, form the wh->le warp and woof of the tale. Of political discussion there is little or hone. And yet the underlying causes of tb<) state of mind which brought on the war*, and which has, since the war, so persistently and with wonderfnl audacity striven to secure to the Southern Whiles in the political field what they lost on the field of buttle—these things are made so simple and clear by the devt opment of character and plot, that we wonder we had not known it all bejfere. Certainly it is a bo*k that no educate*L*r intelligent man or woman can afford to leave unread. It gives with wonderful power the very color and air of that sw<-at Southern land; the bright and sunny pictures of of plantation life; the pleasant relation of white and black; the generous, impulsive, way ward character of the “young Southern bloodr” the quaint, queer, and ytt unmistakaply accurate portraits of tne £sor White, the Old Lawyer, the antique Couufy Clerk, and other local personages; the growih of the little quadroon darkey into the beautiful woman; the quick blast of poming battle; rapid pen-pictures of war and hospital scenes, actual incidents in which ABRAHAM LINCOLN,SUMNER, and other men of note figured during that grand period—and innumerable elements beside, go te help from this brilliant and instructive picture of an era in oui country’s life that has now passed away forever. It is the strongest presentation of the blighting effect of Slavery upon the master race that ever has been penned. And it takes its place among Judge Tourges’s striking historical pictures ss a worthy peer of tho best of them, destined to hold his name in rememberence forever. Ibe hook is brilliantly illustrated. Price $2.00. Where there is no egentfor the work, it will be sent, post-paid, on receipt of prre. As it is to be sold by subscription only, Book Ageuts hod better make & note of it For particulars address Weston Hulbert, 818 State Street, Chicago 111.