Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12
LATE LITERATURE.

HIRAM SIBLEY & Co.'s FARMERS ALMA
MAC FOR 1888, an excellent and complete
work, has been received here, and is COM
mended to the agricultural community.
THE WaEElMAN, for November, is a most
credit able number, and in appearance COM
pares favorably with the best magazines in
| the country. The matter is SHAPED to in
terest bieycle-riders. and TO those fond of
this pretty and sensible sport, it furnishes a
delightful lot of reading.
| BRACEBRIDGE HALL, and Old Christmas.
from Washington IrviDg's Sketch Book, each
/ illustrated with 100 or more very beautiful
wood engravings, are among the seasonable
books that Macmillan & Co, of London and
| New York, have prepared for the Christmas
holidays. They are delight to look at.
Mrs SHEPHERDS Special PhysioIoqyfor Girls
| has already run through the first edition of
| 1000 copies. Messrs. Fowler & Wells have the
second edition now on press. 1t is the only
| work OF the kind, and supplements complete
| ly the study of general physiology. In some
schools for girls supplementary classes in
physiology have been formed using this as
| text book.
Miss KATE SANBoRN has published,
through J. r. Osgood & Co., set of twenty
| Eve Literature Lessons, cleverly arranged,
printed separately on sheets and inclosed in
envelopes. Eich principal writer of Pc
TlOu Is tTedltQ ny topics WIN MS cOtemDOTa
res grouped about him. Each lesson is an
orderly mass OF suggestion, reference and
quotation, and ought to be inspiring 10 a
bright young student.
MIFoRD's MIcRocosM, a religio scientific
monthly, for November, is at hand and is
more than usually inter, sting number
There are about thirty-two short, thought
full articles in this issue on scientific and re-
ligious questions. THIS monthly seems des-
l.
sre gradually tending toward an .uuder-
standing, and if the Microcosm is conducted
in the spirit in which it has been started, it
can contribute much toward this result.
FORTY YEARS IN PHRENoLoGY Is the title
of a new book just ready for publication.
from the pen OF Prof. Nelson S ger, who has
been for more than thirty years connected
with the office of Messrs. Fowler g. Wells, as
chronological examiner. This boot: is a
record of Mr.. Steers recolleclions aud ex
psriences OF nearly a lifetime of business
activity as lecturer, examiner and writer
on chronological topics, and we may expect
the present volume will be filled with that
which will be OF iuterert
MEssRs. FOWLER & WELLS have nearly
ready new book by Mr.. George w. Bungay.
bearing the title of Traits of Represeatatirs
Jfea. This is not collection of dry, brief |
biographies, compiled in the usual manner.
containing only dates and facts, but rather |
record of the peeuliarities, traits and char |
acterisiics of the subj. cts, aud no writer has |
been more successful in the production Of |
sketches of this kind than Mr. Bungay. The |
authors traits are TO be supplemented by |
line engraved portraits, and the subjects in
clude the leading and representative men OF |
the past decade.
"REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY SETTLE |
MENT AND EARLY SETTLERS OF McNAIRY
- l,,G r
has been received. IL is pamphlet OF
some hundred pages, and contains great
deal of useful information concerning |
the prominent men and women of |
that county. The early Indian history of |
the county Is traced and short sketches are
given of the prominent families. Gen. |
Wright has, however, made a mistake in al
lowing such a wretched lot of so-called Dor
traits TO go into his pamphlet, and for the
sake of the prominent men and women, the |
APPEAL hopes the hkenesses do them inius-
tIce.
SKETCHES FROM Texas SIFTINGs is the
title OF a aeasIv-bornd book from the pens
of Alexander Z. Sweet and J. Armory Knox. |
The authors announce that these sketches
are put in the form OF book not so much
to enlighten, educate and eunoble the human
race, as TO put money in the pockets of the
authors. As Sweet and KNOX are smong
The cleverest and most versatile humorists
Of the day, and the collection embraces the
best samples of their humor, the APPEAL
hopes that their purpose may be realized.
Texas seems favorable to the growth of a
csrtaiu kind of humor, of which none are
better exponenis than the Tsras SJtines men.
Their book is commended to the risibiIities
Of the public.
MEssRs CAssELI. PErTER, GALPIS & Co., i
739 and al Broadway, New York, have in 1
press for immediate publication Euaagetine
the place, the story and the poem. BY Prof.. |
Noah Porter, president of Yale College. TO
be issued In an elegant large folio volume,
limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed
BY Prof. Porter, containing nineteen mag
nifcent illustrations BY Frsnk Dicksee,
ARA, fifteen of which are elegantly repro
iuced in photogravure by Messrs, Goupii &
Co, Of Paris, and four are proof Impressions
IN India paper from the original blocks,
beautifully illustrating LongfelIow's poem
If "Evangeline." The publishers claim ihat
his will prove the handsomest artistic gift
book of the season. VI