Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-27
New Publications.

This gives in desultory shape a good deal OF
Information in regard to the vast region be-
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific; its re-
sources, climate, inhabitants, natural curiosi-
ties, etc, etc. The author, as the far western
correspondent OF the Cincinnati Commercial
and Chicago Tribune. has had COED opportuni-
ties to know of what he writes, and tells his
story with considerable graphic power. large
number of tolerable illustrations fill out the
volume.
REsCUEn. b. Mrs. J. S. More. Boston: enry
Hoyt. Through William Bsllantyue.I
ORGAN AT HOME. Boston aud New York Dit
son Co. Through W. g. MetZerott O.
An excellent collection of music tor reed Or
gans and melodeons; not too scientific, and yet
not too trfing. The two hundred pieces of the
collection embrace marches, rondos, short vol
untaries, nocturnes, arrangements of popular
and secular songs, reyeries and "most other
kinds
LED BY Mrs s T. Keeue Boston: Henry
Hoyt. Through William Bsllantyne.I
pleasant story for children by the author OF
Guys Life Lesson"
Y6sSa PEoPhE By Miss s ssdgwios saah or q
"Home, ""Poor Rich Man." etc. New York: G
p. Putnam's Sons. Through Kervand Towers.
An excellent little book.
MANUAL OF PENMANSHIP, p. D., q
authors; New York: WoGlworth, Ainswcrth s
Designed as a practical and comprehensive
textbook on the subject, though more especially
adapted to the Payson, Dunton s. Scribner
copy books, so largely in use in the public and
private schools of the country.
THE RED ROVER A Tale. BY J. Fenimore
Cooper. New York: d. Appleton %. Through
Jos. ShillngtOn]
One of the best known and most popular OF
Cooper's novels. This volume forms one of the
illustrated e1itinO of these nau
being issued in handsome, cheap form by the
AppletoEs.
AGNES FAIRFIELD; Or. THE TRIUMPH OF
FAITH. BY Charles +. HlgginsOn Boston:
Henry Hoyt. Through William Ballantyne.l
THE STORY OF THE EARTH AND MAN. b.
Harper Bros. Through O. Parker.l
The author (the well-known principal OF
McGill University, Montreal,) undertakes to
present the data of geology, Invested as far As
possible of merely local coloring and of the
prejudices of the specialists" and also free
from the faint of materialstic infdeity,
(which, by rObbing nature of the spiritual
element ami of its presiding Divinity, makes
science dry, barren, and repulsive, diminishes
its educational value, and even renders it less
efficient for purposes of practical research"
A MANUAL OF ETIQUETTE, WITH HINTS
ON POLITENEss AND GOOD BREEDING.
By"Dsisy Eyebright." New York: G p. Put
I'll
serviceable hand. book of modern rules of
etiquette.
THE NEW MAGDALEN. novel. By. wnkie
Collins New York: Harper s Bros. Through
q. Parker.l
This, the latest of Collins novels, has been the
most sharply criticised, for seeking heroine "a
the class indicated in the title. The controversy
has served, however, to excite interest in the
story, calling for numerous editions, of which
this the abandonment that has aADearsl in thie
country,
THE APHANAPTKRYX. BY Nioolas Pike.
New York: Harper Bros. Through J. q.
The land thus mysteriousIy suggested in the
tite is the island oflMauritius, one of the most
fertile of the English colonies; and the jaw
breaking word "Aphanspteryx'' is only the
name of very beautiful bird that inhabits the
island. Mr.. Pike is, or has been, L. S. consul
to Mauritius, and this al0eptable volume is the
result of his observations during his residenc
there. Its preparation is due to the fact that no
work has been written giving any information
concerning this interesting island for more than
a century.
THE DEAD SECRET. HIDE AND SEEK. AT
p pAKh sy Wiikie Collins Sha1e pha
These three volumes belong to the new cheap
edition OF Collins novels now being hurried
through the press by the Petersons to satisfy
the new interest in this novelist's works created
by his present visit to this country.
A SYSTEM OF CHRISTIAN RHETORIC, FOR
THE USE OF PREACHERS AND OTHER
sPkAkERS. By George Winfrsd Hervey, N "A. :,
author of "Rhetoric Of Conversation etc. New
York: Harper Bros. Through J. O. Parker. ]
In this elaborate volume of $50 pages the task
is undertaken Of reconstrueting general rhet-
oric and at the same time of making a "sys-
tenn" treating of all the prominent branches of
Christian Rhetoric, and of "their relations no
less to one another than to things that are rad
ieal and even foundational"
HE FAIR GOD; or, The Last OF the 'Tzins A
Tale OF the Conquest Of Mexico BY Lew. Wal
keryand Towers
This story by Gen. Wallace has been success
| full enough to bring out an envious charge OF
plagiarism on some forgotten story by another
western writer, but the charge does not seem to
be sustained. 1t is Walace's own; and is a read
able enough story, laid in a country rather over
looked by the writer's of fiction.
| THE RIVER OF LIFE. collection of new and
popular music for Sunday schools. Boston: o.
Ditson Co. Through W. G. MetZerott Col
LOST Clip. By the auths 1of "Littls Meg" etc
New York: Dedd Mea6 Through VIM. Bal.
thyme.
This is by Hesba Stretton, who has written so
many pleasing stories for the young folks on
both sides Of the Atlantic.