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Show HooK. JVebw and Literary JVfote. Scribner's new fiction embraces several notable books of travel and exploration among which are "Unknown Mexico" by Carl Lumholtzz, M. A., and contains a record of five years' exploration among the tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; in the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco and among the Tarrascos of Michoacan; "All the Russias," by Henry Norman, M. P., a long expected and very important work which may be fairly considered the authority upon Russia and the enormous problems prob-lems with which she faces the world; "Through Hidden Shensi," by Francis H. Nichols, a record of an important journey in 1901, over untraveled roads of the most important portions of China and a clever write up of Chinese life as viewed in the back country districts of the Flowery Kingdom. "The Blue Flower," by Henry Van Dyke, is a cleer holiday story elaborately illustrated in color by the same publishers is among the late publications. publica-tions. J. M. Barrle is at his best m "The Little Whito Bird" which is fully up to "The Little Minister," so vigorously applauded by the American public and press". Scribners are the publishers. James Whitcomb Riley has presented the chil-dien chil-dien with one of his characteristic works in verse, "The Books of Joyous Children," profusely illustrated illus-trated by "Will Vawter, filled with lovable types so familiar to the readers of this master of sweetness, sweet-ness, grace and tenderness. It is fresh from the presses of the Scribners. The 50,000th edition of F. Hopkinson Smith's book, "The Fortunes of Oliver Horn,' 'illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark, has just left the presses of Scribners and is a story full of warmth and life. I Its characters are realistic and may be found iu eeryday life. It is a work of merit and its sentl- S ments find ready response in the heart echos of i mankind, : . . Little, Brown & Co. have added to their recent I publications a strong life-like picture of the possible pos-sible struggle between the last Paraoh and his priestly successors, under the title of "The Pharaoh Pha-raoh and the Priest," translated from the Polish of Alexander Glovatski by Jeremiah Curtin. It is profusely'illustrated and resembles strikingly "Quo Vadis" in its vivid and striking character descriptions. descrip-tions. "Glimpses of California," by Helen Hunt Jackson, Jack-son, is an interesting series of travel sketches from the pen of this well-known authoress and contains much that is interesting. Little, Brown & Co. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. number among their latest publications a story of much charm and interest, "The Princess Right," by Clara Louise Burnham, which adds new laurels to the wreath of this talented author. Thomas Bailey Aldrich has presented the reading read-ing world with a bright new volume of his thrilling sea stories under the title of "A Sea Turn and Other Matters." The tales are gems of story-telling and replete with interest and vivid colorings. One of the handsomest holiday books Issued by Scribners is "A Captured Santa Claus" by Thomas Nelson Page," which has just made its appearance in gala dress. Arthur Symmons is making an English translation trans-lation of D'Annunio's "Francesca da Rimini" and announces his intention of adhering as closely as possible to the unrhymed verse employed by the author. ' "The Library of Oratory" by Chauncey M. De-pew De-pew is a magnificent series of fifteen volumes containing con-taining the greatest speeches, orations and sermons ser-mons the world has ever produced, many of them translated into English for the first time. It is published by the Pacific Newspaper Union of San Francisco and covers the greatest efforts of the greatest speakers for the last 2500 years. A. G. McClurg & Co. of Chicago have just turned out "The Conquest," by Mrs. Dye, a chronicle of the lies and adventures of leading border heroes and embracing the travels and hardships of Lewis & Clark in their great journey westward as well as the annals of fifty years of frontier conquest. |