Show LITEBATUBE Mi a DALEX FERAT By Emilo Zola Author of Nica LAseommoir etc Translated Jrom the French by John Stirling One volume paper coyer price Thc Philadelphia T B Peterson Brother Magdalen Ferat is a love story of pronounced strength and grsat interest in-terest It is an effort fully worthy of Emile Zolas hich reputation at the ame time it is more of a novel and lees a series of pictures than the other works of the French realist It has a wellconstructed plot which is i eminently emi-nently original indeed its thorough freedom from the hackneyed elements ele-ments of fiction is AS much a surprise as the plot itself which ii i managed with such skill toat ths denouement I cannot divined until it is reached Magdalen Fer t is 0 ncmun with a pasta past that hang above her and clouds tbe htppint days of her lifea past that at length rim as if from the tomb and utterly overwhelms over-whelms her Tbo chracteratfitch ing in the book is excessively vivid The old fanatic Geneviove especially is a lurid and powerful creation and Magdfcleu William end Jacques nre drawn with a matters touch The work I of translation has been admirably admir-ably done by Mr John Stirling TTOO reproduces Zjlas style with notable accuracy and grrat fIt t JACK AXE JILL A Tillaijo Story By Louisa M Alcott author of Little Vomen cJilver eitcherj etc with illaAraiens Boston KobcrU Brothers Bro-thers Salt Lke James Bayer Pricks 150 Yung readers will be lucky it they receive anything boter in the TTSJ of juvenile fiction this au omit than tbe volume just presented by Roberts Brothers Jack and Jill w > a recently re-cently published as a eerial in > t Nicholas and now it comes in a lait ing and an atract form It is a sweet and altogether wholesome story by Miss Alcott and is entertain lot from the first to tba last pages Wo command the book to young readers as one not likely to be tx ClUed even during the corning holiday holi-day weeks when the stores trill ba filled with Itcrature put oat specially for the entertainment if not instruction instruc-tion of the juveniles nErviest QUARTERLY Tha Leonard Scott Publishing GJ 41 Barclay street New York have promptly issued their reprint of the finlisk Quarterly Review for October The following is a brief account of the contents Tennysons Poem rH t e not an analysis of Tennyeons > won us otject ot tbe paper being to account lor and justify isis popularity popu-larity and tc show the limits of bia enduring fame II The Lords Sapper Sap-per Historically Considered A statement ol some general principles which have been derived from historical his-torical researchsnowing their application appli-cation to the great Eucharistic controversies con-troversies Ibis Art of Singing Past and Present I be writer Vernon Ver-non Lee gives a history or thu rise and fall ot this art which he looks upon AS almost lost CIA Dutchman in South Africa E Lecky reviews an account of the Boera their language lan-guage and country at the time of the I annexation of the Transvaal La tham on Examinations Sir 7 James Outram a recital of some ot the chief incidents of his career Exploration and Mission Work in Africa An examination of tho rise progress and present condition of tbe great movement tonards civilizing Africa The Practice of rn Architect Archi-tect an answer by T Roger Smith to an article that appeared in a for mor number of this review entitled The Profession of an Architect Lord Northbrook and Lord Ljtton a comparison ot their Indian administrations ad-ministrations bowing tbe contrast between tbo stong ruler and tbe weak Contemporary Literature full as usual of brief notices of recent publications |