The Other Side of the Story; Being Some Reviews of Mr. J. C. Dent's First Volume of the Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, and the Letters in the MacKenzie-Rolph Controversy. Also, a Critique, Hitherto Unpublished, on the New Story (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the life and times of the old Liberal leader. Meanwhile, the accompanying letters and newspaper reviews will be found exceedingly readable, interesting and instructive. They contain important facts which have never before appeared in print, and are, as a whole, pointedly and pungently written. The last critique is now published for the first time. " The Other Side of the Story " reflects, I believe, the views of men of all shades of political opinion, and should be acceptable to all alike. All that is asked for it is a fair and thoughtful perusal. JOHN KING. Berlin, March 15th, 1886. chapter{Section 4MR. DENT'S STORY OF THE UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION. A STORYTELLER IN HISTORIC GARB. The following ably written, calm and dispassionate review of Mr. Dent's book appeared in the Toronto Daily Mail of November 19th, 1885: An impression has got abroad that Mr. Dent's " Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion " is to be a whitewashing book. The conclusion has been hastily formed, and so far as we can see at present, without sufficient foundation. The fantastic idea of elevating Dr. Rolph on a pedestal of glory is, it must be confessed, a sinister omen. Mr. Dent has undertaken the herculean task of making a hero out of the most unpromising mai erial, the most un- heroic of men; but that he intends to go to the extent of washing the blackamore white is an assumption unwarranted by anything that appears in the first volume. The proper place for the chief director of an insurrection is at the head of his forces, and there Dr. Rolph ought to have been at the rising of Yonge Street in December, 1837. Instead of being in the van of the movement of which he was a principal director, he suddenly appeared clothed in the livery of the Government which the insurrection was int...