Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30

HE ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
WIFE WAKE
ST. NICHOLAS.
The POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
EAMEK;CAN JOURNALIST.
FLHCrRA.
SHAKEsPEARIASA.
THECoMMExCIAL TRAVELLERS MAGAZINE.
MIR. Arlo Bates forthcoming book,
"The Pagans,n Is society" novel a
study Of club and studio life in Boston.
Mr.. Bates is the author of "Mr. Jacobs"
tie satire on "Mr. Isaacs."
"IIannah Tarre" is a charming little
story for girls, just published by Mae
milan Il Co. The English lassie, with
her sweet and genuine nature. Is o
heroine of most attractive mould, ana
her adventures are told with an agreea-
tie ease and directness. The book is
prettiIy illustrated by w. J. HenessJ.
A volume entitled "Florida," and
dealing with the sporting resources OF
the State of oranges and GlIigatorS, VIII
>lOltly be brought out III New York by
Mr. II. i. Roosevelt. Those healthy
minded men who love wildwood sports
will gladly anticipate the publication
of this book as well as the issue of a new
edition o! Mr.. ROOsevelps other sport
Ing works. They have long been 0ut OF
print, and the veteran hunter and
AZ gler is wise in reproducing them.
The Bread Winners" in which the
relations OF capital and labor are treated
in a manner which has attracted special
attention abroad as we'll as in this cOun-
tIy, has been copyrighted in England
and registered at Stationers' Hall In
due form by Frederick Warne y Co.,
who published it in London on Friday,
The l4th inst. Consequently, 10 edition
ofthis novel can be published in Can
ada without the consent of the legal
proprietors of the English copyright,
who have taken steps 70 protect the in
terests of the author in the DOMINION
Mr.. Payne expects to complete his
Translation of The Arabian Nights
wilhin the next six months. The flth
and sixth volumes have lately appeared.
The freedom OF these tales, and the
li;eralness as we'll as completeness with
which they are now Tor the hrst time
translated, has rendered il necessary to
publish them through a society the
"Nillon.n The edition was limited to
$50 copies, apO the subscription was a
guinea The volume. 1t is now found
hat |, 300 copies would not have been
200 many for the demand, and sub
-cribers are already offered three times
what they paid for their copies.
Robert Browning, being asked by the
committee formed to raise monu'
u,nt TO Goldoni i'll Venice, to write
ltw w,rGs for their commemorative
album, has sent the following stanZa:
li,idoni.-good. gay, sunnieSl of SOULS
CHASING half Voice III that veriE o!
What though 1t jus, fcneci the shace AMI
shine
q! common life, n0I reEderas it roll,
Grandeur and gloom Sufficient for Thy
shoals
Secrets unSuitCd to that opa!ine
surfnte Of things which laughs along thy
scrolls.
There thropg the people: how they come
Lisp the soft language, naunt the bright
gurb,-s ee,-
Gu IIuzza, Hal:e, under r"' tico .....o,.
And over BiilSr! Tear kInG -! Que ~,
BE LOno;Cdl thou WHO dds lDy'N rul e s.
Venice and we who love her ali love l 100
IicHicc Nor. -, 1883.
Tie January number of "Tne Eng.
li,h Illustrated Magazine" is u more
Il an usually attractive one. Besides
Mr.. Henry James article on Matthew
Arnold, MIR. Archibald Forbes con
tributes "Reminiscences of the Franco.
Prussian War entitled, "1'he Emperor
and his Marshal" This paper Is bril-.
liantIy illustrated. An article on The
Piano has illustrations showing the
various stages of its development.
Professor Geikie has prepared for the
number II paper on Rivers and River
GOrges, and the inimitable Caldecott
has illustrated for its pages the fable OF
the Hares and the FrOgs-not forgetting
a modern application thereof. The
first four numbers of this magazine
contain 272 pages of closely printed
type, illustrated by 1872 wood engrav-
ings, and its projectors are justly proud
of the fact that all this art and litera-
ture has cost the reader only tie mod
crate sum of fifty cents.
We have received from ). p. Rounds,
Jr., of Chicago, a copy of Col. John A.
Joyce's "a Checkered Life" The
book treats OF the authors childhood
and school days; experience as luna
tic, and the philosophy of insanity and
its treatment by attendants and doctors
early war days in Kentucky during the
late rebellion, and a detailed history OF
the oath Kentucky in all its marches,
sieges, battles, defeats and triumphs
study Of law IN the Office of Senator
Allison at Dubuque, Iowa; the pathetic
history of a friends suicide; the first
strides of young politician and caDdi-
date for the Iowa Legislature; rural
school teaching and its peculiarities; ex-
perience as Washington clerk; en-
ihUslastic description of the Capitol;
political manipulation and official ac-
ton as revenue agent under the adj
ministration OF President Grant; tales
and travel in strange cities, and a
count of San Francisco, Yosemite VAL
ley, and the Pacific Coast; whisky trou-
bles in St. Louis and the West; impris-
onment and its philosophy, showing
how the so-called good people of the
world ought 10 manage the so-called
bad; pardon matters and the abuse OF
the prerogative; tegary mo.aics; pen
pictures OF famous men throughout the
United States; orations on various sub
icre y United States Judge. At the
vi TIC o lC" DDcuiN
sre given There are fac simile letters,
pivUtiDg on certain things, from
Charncy /. Filley, business politician;
Gen. f. +. Spinner, late Treasurer OF
the United States, Gen. w. T. Sher.
man, Ex-President Hayes, and All old
letter from Gen. o. E. Bsbcock, touch
ing the celebrated 'Sylph" dispatch,
upon which Bristow had the General
indicted. Col. Joyce passed consid.
erahle period in early life as citizen
of Wheeling and Mouudsville, aud
spent much time on the river from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. TIE volume
is bound in old gold cloth, over three
hundred pages, aud Is illustrated with
chapter cuts, autograph letters Of rare
significance, and fine cut OF the au
thor rs froniispiece. 81 80.
The London correspondent of the