Through Swamp and Glade. By Kirk Munroe. (Blackie and Son.)
—This "tale of this Seminole War" reminds us of Fenimore Cooper. Coacoochee is not wholly unlike Uncas, though fate is kinder to him. The Seminoles were tho native inhabitants of Florida, and their story is one of the worst chapters in that evil volume, the dealings of the United States with the Red Indians. Even now the poor remnant of the tribe, five hundred in number, is threatened in their last refuge. "White land-grabbers, pene- trating their swamps, are seizing their fertile islands, and bidding them begone. They stand aghast at this brutal order. Where can they go ? What is to become of them ? Is there nothing left but to fight and die?" So writes the author of this tale. Here is a little bit of practical justice which the United States Government might do without sending a corvette to force the passage of the Dardanelles.
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