"Henry Bourland: The Passing of the Cavalier," a novel by Albert E> Hancock, Ph.D., '97, will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic picture of that period, when the old civilization was giving way before the drastic methods of reconstruction.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
The Riverside Biographical Series, volumes 4-6. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Peter Cooper, by R. W. Raymond.
Thomas Jefferson, by H. C. Merwin '74.
William Penn, by George Hodges.
Each 16mo., cloth, with photogravure portrait and about 150 pp. Price 75 cents.
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