The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
AUTHORS AND PUBLICATIONS.

"Hetty's Boarder' is breezy summer
novel Just published by Loring Brothers.
1t is as fresh little book as we have seen
this season. 1t is a charming little love
idol that will delight all who read it. For
sale by Robert Clarke & Co., and all book
sellers.
"Miss Margery's Roses" by Robert G.
Meyers, is a pleasantly written love story.
Without any depth or involution of plot,
it is natural, pathetic and imaginative
characters are merely outlined, but are
presented with good deal of skill.
'The Schooner on the Beach," by Rev.
Edward A. Rand, author of several other
well-known children's stories, is model
boys book full of incident, breezy and
lively in style, and calculated to instruct
as well as to interest. 1t is story in which
all healthy boys will delight.
Published by the American Sunday School
Union.
Essays from the North American Re-
view," edited by Allen Thorndike Rice,
comprises some of the more notable
papers that have appeared in the leading
exponent of American thought between
the years 1888 and 1857. Few Libraries
consequently many utteranCes of the ablest
American writers, which created much dis
cussion when published and have influ-
enced the public mind in no small degree,
are inaccessible to the general reader.
1.-TWO of U.s." by Calista Halsey, is fas-
cinatng little story telling OF the struggles
of two girls left on their own resources and
determined to live as economically as posi-
lla 10 fnlI nf on tp those Slnll-
larly situated and throws some light on
one of the difficult problems of modern civ
ilization-the employment OF women who
have their own living to earn. The style is
vivacious and sketchy, and the reader is
sure to be interested in the personages OF
the story Published by G. W. Carleton
& Co., New York. For sale by Robert
Clarke & Co.
Sunday Afternoon" for August, is brim
full of pleasant reading matter, among
which are found an unusual number of
charming stories. "The Brass Andirons"
by NJ. Il. Bennett is a pleasantly written
sketch, and in the "Gentlemanly Hostler'
Rev. G. NJ. Boynton presents an excellent
pen picture of a real character. The poems
are numerous and appropriate to the sea-
son, the one of particular interest to our
readers being "My Bird and |" from the
pen Of Kate st. Clair Greenleaf, young
Kentucky poetess. Every other department
of the magazine maintains its usual inter-
est. Published by the Sunday Afternoon
Co., Springfield, Mass.
Miss Margery's Roses" by Robert c.
Meyers, is published this day by I. b.
Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia. 1t is a
charming love story, whose incidents are
original yet natural and while the author
has made his characterizations forcible, he
has not depended upon impossible situa
tions to create the force. The story is the
rose, the Iuse the story; and IT is inter
Woyen with the perfume OF the tlowers
which give its title. "Miss Margery'
Roses is published in large square duo
decimo volume, paper cover, price 30 cents
in uniform style with Peterson's edition:
of "Dosia," "Saveli's Expiaton," "Marry
ing Off a Daughter,' "Dournof" 'Philo
mene's Mar iages, pretty Ii tie Counties
Zina" Sonia" Gabrielle" and "a
Friend" by Henry Greville. For sale by
Robert Clarke & Go. and all booksellers.
"Under tire Willows, or The Three
Countesses," by Mrs. Elizabeth Van Loon
author of"A Heart Twice Won and 'Th'
Shadow of Hampton Mead" is published
this day by I. b. Peterson & Brothers
Philadelphia, and undoubtedly shows tina
to compose an original and striking worl
of prose fiction is not among "tAe los
arts" about which great orator used ST
eloquently to discourse some years ago
Most of the characters are American, bu
the action shifts from the New World tt
the Od-from this country to Eu
rope, France and Italy, and il
strange mixture of reality anC
romance. Characters the most contrastec
are brought together in the strangest anc
the most unexpected combinations. "un
der the Willows is romance of unbroker
interest, in which the wild and wonderful
are more largely developed than in mos
compositions of its class. In this respect i
ecipses "A Heart Twice Won," and "Th'
Shadow of Hampton Mead" preceding an,
popular works from the SAINT
pen. 1t is published in large duodecimt
volume, bound in morocco cloth, black ant
gilt. Price, 81 so. For sale by Rober
Clarke d Co. and all booksellers.