Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Tho MagazIne of Art for November haG for frontispiece a fine fullpage print of n young lady Miss C Pclrse The editor enters a protest affuliurl time violation of tho rule for art exhibits a il lImo I Paris Exposition Lime rules excluding ill work executed prior to May 1 38i 0 but the managers of the exposition not only allowing al-lowing entries of work prior to that lime but actually rewarding those artlnts who entered works executed prior to tho date llxccl by giving them I the highest honoro The artists so winning In contempt of tho rule mo Dugnan Bouveret 01 Franco Whistler of the t United States nnd Slo veils of Llelgluni Tho number has two full puce fllus trallonn I in tlrts and a line little plotuij I In colors Its fullpage and halfpage cuts In black avcrngc very hlph ns art work and the smaller ones are all In fine style The text Is well written and fully explanatory ex-planatory of tho Illustrations and or tho I art work of the llino Cassoll Company Com-pany uubllshers New Yore Selections from Idyls of the King Edited Edi-ted h > Mary P Wllfunl Published by iho American Book Company Chicago A wellprinted little book with outline mnn ot anclonl Knyluml and Wales Intended for supplementary cchool reading and J firstclass for that puOso Attwooils Pictures An Arllbls Ills I lory of the Last Ton Years of time Nineteenth Nine-teenth Century Life Publishing Company Com-pany Now York This work of the bright and lamented artist who c death at an early ago Js inuoh deplored was 1 done from mouth to month he depleting In cxrrsslvo vignettes 1 froni period to period his conception of the striking events of contemporaneous history They I were published as drawn and now they have been brought together In an elegant ele-gant quarto they show In an attractive I I and novel form the march of progress of tho world In a dccalle Tho scries shows much humor and raro discrimination I rime volume Is a very handsome one tastefully bound In cloth and gold I The Monster and Other Stories By Stephen Crane Published by Harper Brothers New York Ii F Hummel Salt Lako City The Monster which i gives the title to tho book occupies ito greater part of It and In nn ably told story It has Its gloomy side und Its hu junroua bide time hitter largely concerning concern-ing the boys who form characters In the story The other stories arc Tho Blue Heron and HIs Now Mittens These are part 1 of tho AVhllornvlllo stories I which made so popular u feature of Harpers Monthly until the death of tho gifted author Collected they make an attractive and readable book Crittendon A Kentucky Story of Iovo and War By John Fox Jr Published Pub-lished by Charles Scrlbncrs Sons New York A R Demo Co Sail Lako City A talc of tha war with Spain Tho hero a youthful KentuckIan floes to tho war at tho coil of tho President sees hot service at Santiago and returns safe to his homo nnd the girl ho left behind him Tho scenes Incidents timid battle pictures make a morft Interesting story of ft and those who begin Its perusal aro not likely to lay the book down till they finish iho last page An Eagles Fllpht 1 A Filipino Novel adapted from Noll mo Tangere By Dr Joao Rlsul PubllHhcd by McClure Phillips Phil-lips Co Now York This Is the great favorite of the Filipinos Dr Rteal Wag their Idol lIhJ writings wore llory and all wore hot against iho cruelties and oppressions of Spanish olllalale and not less so against time friars amid monks The novel lakes us to scenes wholly of the past BO fur AH literature Is concerned tho bloody deeds of the middle ages aro here repioducctl an of our own lime with Pictures of fiendish and hcurllnss dolncj by frIars and cccluslnstfj lhnt I maIm onos I blood run cold Ot courso they are overdrawn I over-drawn that Is to nuiko tho effect lie greater but at lie same time the universal I univer-sal acceptance by tho Filipinos of tho pictures an truo to life lead to tho conclusion con-clusion that there must havo been grout wroiigH perpetrated 1 It is probably true that the one thing that vould more quickly than any other reconcile thcs Filipinos to United Slnlos sovereignty would be an acceptance of tholr demand that the friars ho bnnlahcd and their accumulations confiscated But ns that is I Impossible their resistance will havo to bo overcome nail a just regard for the rights of nil established later on Time work Is a powerful one and burns with love for the authors pica he was an almost I al-most pure Tagal nnd hatred or Spaniards I Span-iards It will do AmnrlciinH goodlo read the work that reading will uiablo theta to get a better comprehension of tho Filipino pplnt of view I r The Story of the Soldier By Brovet BriyadlcrGjnoral George A Fonsylh I U S A Retired Illustrated by J1 F Hogbaum Published by i D Appluton and COmpnny New York In this luuuluomo I volume Gen ForsyUi gives a running I sketch of Limo army its Inception Us makeup its fights In the Ruvolmlon on tho early frontiers and successively on Limo lino of savngo replfiinncoaa It wan pushed further and firthoi1 wofsv L and HOiuh It describes Limo various sons of duties tho soldiers have to do thelrqu rters and their sturdy nnd bravo personnel The book Is mostly however and very properly prop-erly devoted to the great Sioux wnis in which Gen Forayth himself boro so honorable hon-orable n part IU culminating In lures t h I In chapter nine which tellp of tho tra mondQUi lIght with Roman Noso and his llorro warriors whoro the Sioux made aurh a charge upon ForayHi and hla mon I who were O1n lilt It Island In the forks of time t Republican river Kansas aa Indians I In-dians wero novor known to have nindp before or since It 1 Is a most thrilling story all though lib I loading stirs the blood and warms the heart wltlradmira tion for the bravo men who conquer at such desperate maids ll l h a u great book thai Qoaorvca a reading bv all the people |