William Lloyd Garrison, the Liberator. By W. E. Axon. (Partridge
and Co.)—Mr. Axon tells, in the compass of some hundred and fifty pages, the story of one of the eminent men who worked for Negro freedom in the States. Those who can read Mr. Garrison's life as it is related by his sons, should by all means do so. Failing this, Mr. Axon's little book will be found useful. Garrison's aptitude as a printer—his last words in the Liberator were actually set up by his own hands—is one of the in- teresting details which are here related. The estimate of the man is fair enough. Of course he was violent ; but then, as his biographer points out, the most moderate language roused almost the same fury in the pro-slavery party as did the most vigorous denunciations. And it was far more difficult to be self-restrained when the evil was so close. In England itself, slavery had ceased to be before the Emancipation movement began.—From the same publishers we get The Onward Reciter, " a Choice Collection of Recitations, Readings, and Dialogues."
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