| Show r LJfERArURt 3 Some of the Latest Publications Publi-cations LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES r The Different Magazines Tourgees New BookAnd many other Matters MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY i The November Magazine American History comes freighted with three admirably ad-mirably illustrated articles of great public pub-lic interest The Unsuccessful Candidates Candi-dates for the Presidency of the Nation L contains the portraits of George Clinton Elbridge Gerry Aaron Burr Rufus King DeWitt Clinton William H Crawford William Wirt Henry Clay John C CalhounLewis Cass and General Scott The fine picture of Henry Clay occupies the place of honor as frontispiece frontis-piece to the Magazine presumably from the fact of his having been three times unsuccessful as a Presidential candidate candi-date The concluding paper on this novel subject to be published in December Decem-ber will embrace the pictures of the defeated since 1853 The second article of the current number An Old Colonial College is from the able pen of Prof Charles F Richardson of Dartmouth Button Gwinnett is a charming sketch by the eminent Georgia historian Charles Jones JrLLD Californias Goiden Prime of FortyNine is profusely pro-fusely illustrated wity scenes in camp and views of California towns in that early period furnished by the author Charles Howard Shinn Historic IIomesOchre Point Newport R I contains an excellent picture of the old mansion of William Beach Lawrence at Ochre Point together with the portrait of this eminent jurist His daughter Mrs Wheeler who contributes < contribu-tes the article gives some graphic pen pictures of scenes in the interesting old homestead and describes its distinguished distin-guished guests Original Documents this month contains unpublished letters from Washington Hancock Lafayette f I Dr Franklin and others Minor Topics has a sketch by Frank B Green of the j PreHevolutionary Surgeons of Kings County and Notes Queries Replies i Societies and Book Notices are remarkably I remark-ably good This Magazine has achieved i unparalleled success since it came under the new management and excellence i becomes more and more apparent with I each monthly issue Published at 30 Lafayette Place New York City j i THREE VISITS TO AMERICA By Emily Faith full New York Fowler Wells Co Salt j i Lake James Dwyer Price 150 The author of this volume needs no introduction to an American public her work in behalf of struggling women the nast has been dorm vt nn twentv years xitao u i attended VLUIJII wit jjtifcju i so utviiAujr much success j that she j in j has acquired widespread celebrity j spite of herself Her three visits in this country were made for the purpose of studying our society our industrial methods and organizations in behalf be-half of poor and unfortunate English I Eng-lish women and the record of these three visits is not a rush into print to ratify personal motives merely or to let the world know my impressions of America after the style or so many foreign tourists but the notes of a warmhearted practical observer who is in earnest for the improvement of the condition of her fellowwomen and gives her best experience in the tracings of her pen Few writers on America have seen so much of our country talked with so many of our best people and looked so deeply into our social habits rand institutions and as she relates the iraotable incidents of her journey in a i lively agreeable manner showing every t where the woman of exuberant good nature the reader is captivated at 1 the start One finds himself newly t 4 interested in things that he deemed familiar reads about men and women of wyaom he has frequently heard but set in new lights and phases Sketches of conversations occur all through the book most of them with wellknown j people all of whom cordially aided Miss jfaithfuU toward the attainment of her mission But what will most interest the American reader are the chatty com I parisouamade of our social mannerisms with those of old England and the tendencies I ten-dencies that she thinks are clearly to be seen in popular sentiment as concerns trade government labor the woman question art and so on The eminent utility of what Miss Faithfull says here and there makes the book valuable and J therefore desirable while it will entertain enter-tain every ORe who takes it up it will be sure to instruct those who are i thoughtful THE MAN WONDERFUL IN THE HOUSE BEAT TIFULAn Allegory Teaching the Principles Princi-ples of Physiology and Hygiene and the Effects of Stimulants and Narcotics For Home Reading also adapted as a Reader for High Schools and as a TextBook for Grammar Intermediate and Disrrict Schools By Chilion B Allen AM 1 LLB MD and Mary A Allen AB MD members of the Broome County N Y Medical Society New York j Fowler t Wells Co Salt Lake James Dwyer Price L50 A book which is almost as wonderful as the subject of which it treats The motive of the book is to teach that the I most beautiful and at the same time the most wonderful thing in nature is man and no one can read these chapters chap-ters without feeling that the authors have accomplished their task The book is an allegory in which the body is the House Beautiful and its inhabitant in-habitant the Man Wonderful The building of the house is shown from foundation to roof and then we are taken through the different rooms and their wonders and beauties displayed to us and all this time we are being taught almost without knowing it anatomy physiology and hygiene with practical applications and suggestions sug-gestions We are then intro duced to the inhabitant of the house The Man Wonderful and learn of his growth development and habits We also become acquainted with the guests whom he entertains and find that some of them are doubtful acquaintances some bad and some decidedly de-cidedly wicked while others are very good company Under this form we learn of food drink and the effects of narcotics and stimulants The illustrations r illustra-tions are of the best and these together with the happy verbal illustrations give the reader a clearer idea of the subjects jects treated than any other work deal jing with the same themes The authors tmsband and wifeare both regular physicians and besides graduatingin the best schools of Americaspent threeyears under the best instructors in Vienna r Jo h Saris and London The authors hav < been teachers and know what will aid both teacher and scholar and they hav < kept in mind the fact that many teachers teach-ers will be called upon to teach thes < subjects who will feel the need of aids and they will find them in the questions which are so arranged with exponent in the text that the lessons are easih comprehended FRANK LESLIES POPULAR MONTHLY There are three articles in tin November number which render it one of the most interesting yet sued Money Panics by Richard Rich-ard B Kimball LLD trace the history of panics from that of 18G m London to that of May 1884 in New York and Charles Gayarre relates the particulars of Washingtons Surrender at Fort Necessity in 1754 both articles are finely illustrated The third feature is the commencement of a thrilling serial story by Mr Garrett Walker of New Orleans entitled The Death Mark The author is both blind and paralyzed and yet with beautiful and energy support himself upon his writings writ-ings which he dictates to an amanuensis amanuen-sis There are also the usual variety of choice reading matter in the 128 quarto pages and the embellishments number over 100 Mrs frank Leslie publisher 53 55 and 57 Park Place New York LITTELLS LIVING AGE The numbers of The Living Age for Oct 18th and 25th contain The Younger Pitt as an Orator National Rcview The Philosophy of John Inglesant Modern Review Lord Lyndhurst London Quarterly Quar-terly Review Sportand Travel ill Norway Nor-way Fortnightly Reviel The Darwinian Theory of Instinct Nineteenth Century Ralph Bernal Osborne and On the Reading of Books Temple Bar The Sanitarium San-itarium of Southern Ocean Cornhill Modern Cathedrals Smallpox Camp and Gambling on Atlantic Boats St Jamess Gazette Bookselling in Russia Spectator Raphael as an Architect Academy Moorish Ambassador in Spain Athenccum Curious News apersOliam bers Journal with Mr Pudsters Return The Hermit of SaintEugene and instalments of At Any Cost and poetry Littell if Co Boston are the publishers publish-ers OUR LITTLE ONES Our Little Ones is now added to the list of American magazines reprinted in Great Britain Thus one more triumph is gained for American artists and wood engravers It is admitted by every one that Our Little Ones is as far superior to the European juvenile magazines as are The Century and Harpers Magazine to their respective rivals The English edition of Our Little Oncs will be issued by the house of Messrs T Nelson Sons and negotiations are pending for the publication of editions in both France and Germany LITERACY LINES Harpers Young People is hereafter to Ii be published in England as well as in this country I The first volume of the Gutenberg Bible was sold at the Earl of Gosfords sale in London recently for 2500 Matthew Arnold is preparing for the press a peoples edition of his God and the Bible1 with a new introductory preface The late Henry J Bryon wrote altogether alto-gether about sixty plays for which he received nearly 400000 His will was proved for > 20000 Mr Stevensons new novel The Story of Prince Otto is mentioned as a study I of morals and marriages It is coming I out serially in Longmans Magazine Max ORells new book will bear the title John Bulls Womankind The French editions was published on Oct 8th the edition consisting of 20000 copies Fisheries of the World by F Whym per author of The Sea will be pub lished at an early day by Cassell Co The book will be profusely illustrated with fine engravings Zolas work of twenty years ago Les Mysteres de Marseilles which he is about to reprint with a new preface is not to bear the title Germinal as has been stated Germinal is the title of a new work It is predicted in England that a sensation sen-sation will be made m the religious world by a book shortly to be published under the title Letters from Hell It was written by a Danish Bishop and is now being translated A magazine the first number of which is to be put forth as a Christmas volume in Scotland W is soon to be published H Mallock is to be a contributor and Mrs Lynn Linton is to give to it a new story called A Rift in the Lute The proposed reprint of the Dial the celebrated magazine which Margaret Fuller and Emerson edited will probably proba-bly never be issued Only about one half the number of subscribers that were necessary to warrant the undertaking taking have been obtained Black and White the little volume treating of educational land and labor problems in connection with the colored race by one of their number T Thomas Fortune editor of the New York Globe has gone to a second edition having met with a gratifying reception from intelligent readers Tourgees new book An Appeal to Cfflsar although not a novel seems booked for a lively run The advance orders were not large because it was regarded as a book on a dull subject illiteracy but ithas waked up the public to such an extent that it has reached its fifty thousand in less than two weeks after publication On a Margin the new novel of Wall Street and Washington city is announced announ-ced by Fords Howard Hulbert for publication on Wednesday October 29 The author withholds his name but readers will recognize a practiced pen and a powerful hand Thestriking realism real-ism ot the scenes the strength of the situations and the shrewd analysis of mood and motive e whether in politics speculation or love will give this story s hour interested crowded many ot the present I terested readers |
