Smyrna times., 1881-01-26
Periodicals..

Lippincotts Magazine for February will be
found entertaining. as well as instructive.
Three articles are adequately illustrated,
viz: "Down the Red River of the North"
by Alice Ilgenfritz; GA Celestial Colony"
(scens in that part of San Francisco known
as Chinatown, and further portion of
" Lilith," nswly-bsgun serial story, ''Pow-
er Centers," by an old journalist, is nomi-
nally comparison between the American
and Anglican press, but actually an elabo-
rate contrast between the Times of London
and the Herald of New York. There are
several shsrt stories, some poetry, an
analytic sketch of Sarah Bernhardt, and
couple of local sketches. A chapter on
Welsh women, by Writ Skies, who seems
to delight in covering as many pages as
possible, tells the reader SO little with a
multitude of words that it may be said to
keep the word of promise to the ear and
break it to the hope. The decided i'm.
provsment (which we noticed last month
in "Our Monthly Gossip" and the notices
of new books, is percsptibls here, perhaps
in great degree. The result is a capital
magazine.
Decisive Battles Of tile World.-Creasy's sx.
tremely interesting volume narrating the
history of the fifteen decisive bottles OF
the world, those few battles of which a
contrary event would have essentially varied
the drama of the world in all its subss
quent scenes, is highly esteemed by all
readers of history. 1t has long time been
on Harper's list az one of their standard
books, at the price of $780, Now it is is
sued in q very handsome cloth bound vol
ume, by tho American Book Exchange
New York, at the nominal price of IS cts
1t forms one of their Acme Library of His
tory, which includes Macaulay's England
$l.25 (rsduced from $3.50, Gibbons Rome
81 (reduced from $9), Rollins Ancien
History, $l.15; Froissart's Chronicles, 81. 81
and to which list will soon be added, a
equally low prices, Grote's Greece, Green
(larger) England, Mommsen's Rome, Mas
sons Guizot's France, Carlyles French
Revolution, Schiller's Thirty Years War
and others. Catalogues of the STANDARD
low.priced books of the Literary Reyelu
ton will be sent on application to tn
American Book Exchange, Tribune Build
ing New York.
TIo (Hnses az RooIo A =. "a Al
volume with the above title, by Charles +
Richardson, is just issued by the American
Book Exchange, Tribune Building, Ne,
York, at the very low price of % cents
also cheap paper edition at the nsmins
cost of five cents. 1t will delight all VIII
, love good books, and in its wise suggel
tons will be greatly helpful to all VIII
want help in choosing the best books. L
, its varions chapters it treats Of The Motiy
} of Reading, The Reading Habit, WhA
Books to Read, The Best Time to RsaC
. How Much to Read, Remembering wins
7 One Reads, The Use Of Note Books, Tn
Cultivation of Taste, Poetry, The Art {
: Skipping, The Use of TRANSACTIONS, Ho
to Read Periodicals, Reading Aloud an
Reading Clubs, What Books to Own, Th
Use of Public Librariey, The True ServiC
of Reading. The volume is remarkabl
3 rich in striking quotations from the world
r most famous authors and thinkers, frol
E Aristotle to Emerson, including such nam'
d as Addison, Bacon, Burns, Cato, Carlyl
n Disraeli, Fsnelon, Gibbon, Hugo, Keat
Lamb, Locke. Luther, Milton, Pstrarcl
;. Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Thoreau. 1t
n a real literary treasure house.