The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-07

brimmed black felt hat, set back ON the
head enough to show the light hair part
ed on the forehead and waved away from
the face in the style Of five years ago, and
trimmed with long black ostrich plume,
dropping over the right side Of the hat
brim its entire length, the end curling
upon the looped braids of back hair.
Long-wristed gloves of black undressed
kid, and the tiniest of diamond studs in
her ears, completed this simple costume. \
But beneath this was worn an unques-
tionable hoop-skirt!
Now, what are we to believe in this
matter? One authority says positively
that hoops are not going to be worn.
Another, just as reliable (?), says that
they are-and not so slowly, either
being adopted by fashionable ladies on
both sides of the Atlantic. Certainly
the revival of plain skirts would give
some color to the latter statement, for
untrimmed dresses are not apt to chang"
very well unaided. But there is time
enough. One need not hasten to adopt
such an innovation in dress, and espe-
cially those who remember by experience
the last reign of that despotic hoop
skirt, will not be too ready to bend the
knee to his yoke second time.
Now, that there is so much interest in
Captain Boyton's featon the Connecticut
River, is an excellent time for the ap-
pearance of the latest work of that other
famous solitary traveller upon the water,
Mr.. Nathaniel H. Bishop, whose "Voy-
age in Paper Canoe" was so generally
read when it was issued, eighteen months
ago. The same house, Messrs. Lee &
Shepard, publish the present volume,
"Four Months in Sneak Box" Ga boat
used for duck-shooting,) which is an ac-
count of boat voyage of the author of
1900 mikes down the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico to the
Suwanee River. 1t is a remarkable his
tory of a still more remarkable voyage,
and is written in the same bright, chatty,
yet statistieally complete style of the
authors other works, and is profusely
illustrated.
From the same publishers comes a
charming story for young people by
Mary Thacher Higginson, entitled
Groom for One More" one of those
happy conceptions of home life which
are alike interesting to old and young.
Also fine translation from the French
of Jules Verne's latest work, "The Tribu-
lations of Chinaman in China" Every
body knows Jules Verne, and it only
need be said that "The Chinaman" is an
other quaint, odd story, full of fquirks and
notions that nobody else ever could
think of, and that keeps the reader in a
chronic state of wonder from the first page
to the last.
Two new books just issued by Messrs.
Houghton & Osgood deserve special
mention. One is volume in the favor
ite "Little Classic" style, containing five
of Bret Harte's last stories, of which
''The Twins of Table Mountain gives
it's title to the book. Bret Harte's sto-
ries are strange mixtures of fact and fan
cy strangely told, and they have taken a
strong hold upon the reading public Of
the day. The other volume, of which |
spoke above, is an anonymous story,
called "The Earnest Trifer." Tt is a
novel of decidedly the better class, deal
ing with modern people in modern times
in our own country, and showing an IN
sight into the hearts and motives of
people of to-day, which scarcely betokens
an author to whom the pen is a stranger,
while there is fresh, breezy originality
of style throughout the whole story
which does not seem 10 remind one of
any of the known writer's. Many specu-
lations are already afoat as to its author
ship. SUSIE SWEET.