New books in review

PIONEER WOMEN ORATORS. By Lillian O'Connor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954; pp. xvii+264. $3.75. A HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. By Clement Eaton. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. ix+335. $5.50. LINCOLN'S IMAGERY: A STUDY IN WORD POWER. By Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1954; pp. 32. $2.00. THE ANTISLAVERY ORIGINS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. By Jacobus ten‐Broek. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951; pp. 232. $3.00. ELIHU ROOT AND THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION. By Richard W. Leopold. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1954; pp. x+222. $3.00. THE MAN BEHIND ROOSEVELT, THE STORY OF LOUIS McHENRY HOWE. By Lela Stiles. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1954; x+311. $4.75. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: THE ORDEAL. By Frank Freidel.…