Show A yankee school teacher in virginia by alvora WOOD BALDWIN A series ota of sketches ketches of life iu in the old dominion immediately after the close of the war the author has drawn largely upon her person al experience and the result is a work that has all the value of truth and all the interest of fiction we could not name another volume where life among the negroes of the south is po portrayed with such evidences dences of intimate knowledge of their habits beliefs superstitions and modes of everyday life nothing is set down in malice or contempt buethe mirror ia is held up to nature with such kuch obvious conscientiousness that the student of history will find his profit in looking therein in it is a book that fills a most important and does it in in a manner eminently satisfactory withal witha I 1 it evolves many heart hearty laughs at the absurdities related related and presents much that is pathetic as well as ludicrous the dialogues abere arere are reproduced dialect and all with rem remarkable able skill bubli published in funk fc wa alls 10 and street str ee t N Y standard library paper 25 cents |