Show LITERATURE fl A LITTLK GpuXTXY GIRL By Stsaan Cool idee author of The New Years Bar gain etc Boston Roberts Brothers Price Z 1 50 This is another of the charming books for juveniles in the writing of whichthe author so excels It comes within the field of romance being a novel for chil dren The story is of a young sweet and tenderhearted maiden of the country who wsnb to Newport to live in the family ofa cousin The society in which they mingled at the fashionable fashion-able resort was so unlike that to which the little heroine had been accustomed that she was constantly perplexed and hurt by what she saw and experienced The tale is bright and fresh r and will deeply interest its juvenile readers THE STOEY OF ROME from the earliest times to the end of the Republic By Arthur Gilman M A New York G P putnams Sons Price L50 In the preface it isannounced that it is proposed to rehearse the lustrous story of Roma from its beginning in the mists of myth and fable down to the mischevio times when the Republic Repub-lic came to its end just before the brilliant brilli-ant period of the empire opened It is hopedto enter to some degree into the real life of the Roman people to catch the true spirit of their actions and to indicate the Current of the national na-tional life while avoiding the presentation presenta-tion of particular episodes periods with undue prominence It isintended to set down the facts in their proper relation re-lation to each other as welL as to the facts of general history without attempting at-tempting an incursion into the domain of philosophy In this volume Mr Gilman begins with the legends and follows down to the time with which undisputed history has made us all familiar He tells us how the shep herds began the city which has stood these many centuries how the city and state grew end developed and how they went to decay through the corruption of the rulers and the people The series of the story of the nations I is to include Assyria Byzantium Carthage Car-thage Egypt Early Britain Greece Germany and various other countries the whole forminga valuable library of ancient history zADKIELS ALPs1AQ > The 1880 edition of this famous almanac can now be hadat Dwyer for 25 cents It contains the usual number of predictions of the weather voices of the stars hieroglyphics tables etc |