Show LITERATURE FASHION IK DEFORMITY By VV H Flower F R S J FiU orhld Co publisher 141 Fourth Avenue New York No 28 Humboldt Library Price 152 In this neatly punted and profusely pro-fusely illustrated little volume it is shown how among all races of man the custom of deforming the body has existed from the earliest times The Australian savage who improves im-proves Gods handiwork by thrusting thrust-ing a bone ornament through the cartilage of the nose the Mosquito Indian who perforate his lip to receive re-ceive a similar ornament the races who flatten the skulls of their newborn new-born children act only in compliance compli-ance with the fashion and therein are seen to be own brothers of the semicivilzed Chinese who cramp the feet of female infants and at least of the female sex among the highest European races with their earrings their highheeled shoes their tight lacing and other absurd practices dictated by fashion FRANK LESLIES SUNDAY MAGAZINE The February number contains as usual literary matter of rare interest in-terest and of an edifying and improving im-proving character and the embellishments embel-lishments are admirable and profuse pro-fuse Among the latter is a hereto unknown portrait of Martin Luther which was discovered in the Thekla Church of Leipsic On its lower margin are D M Luther setet XL1X1532 The editor 1 De Witt Talmage D D gives the second part of People LHave Met The Home Pulpit contains his sermon Wheels Full of Eyes and he also furnishes an interesting illustrated article Narcotics Called to the Ministry by W S Hervey On the River Nile by W C Procter Lessons of the Snow by Rev W Walters Missionaries in India etc are finely illustrated and replete re-plete with interest and information The Reminiscences of an Old New Yorker are continued and the department de-partment of fiction contains besides the charming serialsPndence terburn and Margarets Enemy short stories and sketches by popular popu-lar writers There are also essays poems and an abundance of amusing amus-ing and instructive miscellany Address Ad-dress FRANK LESLIE Publisher 53 53 and 57 Park Place New York a |