Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-19
LITERARY.

The May number of Our Day, published
in New York, besides other very interesting
matter, contains a biographical sketch OF
Meredith P. Gentry, that all who remember
that statesman will read with pleasure. II
revives memories OF The best days Of the
State.
ELECTRA" is the title of a monthly pub
lished in Louisville by one of the editors,
Isabella NJ. Leyburn, which, judging from
| the contents of the first number, ia destined
| to be a favorite with the public. 1t is we'll
printed from clear-cut type, on well laid
book-paper.
"BULnEr AND SHE'LL" Moi. Geo. II. Will
| liams's story of Var as The Soldier sac II, has
| gone now to its tenth thousand. 1t is heart
| lily commended by such soldiers as Grant
| Sherman and Hancock, and many of the
newspaper praises of it are backed by asser-
lions that the writer's know whereof they
testify when they affirm its truthfulness and
| vivid interest.
PLYMOUTH PULPIT, of May 9th (No. of
the present volume), gives Henry Ward
| Beecher's views of Heber Newton In a Wig
orous discourse, entitled 1.-THE Liberty Of
| Cnrist." Somehow, Mr.. Beecher has a wsy
of deducing his own radicslism, and con-
servatism as we'll, from sayings of Jesus or
| writings OF Paul, which seem 10 give him
| tolerably respectable authority for his doc
| trine.
THE CENTURY is beyond question treas
ure when bound in the style which the COM
| pany has adopted, and which is so thorough
| ly in keeping with the artis ic interior OF
each volume. Nothing in Englapd or in
Continental Europe can approach it, and
HdsPer's is the only 10 magazine in this country
that Can compare with it. No library can
be considered complete without this monarch
Of the monthlies.
CHAs. SCRIBNER's Sons, of New York, have
put out cheap edition of Cables Old Creole
Days, the most charming stories that the liz.
erature of our language has produced in
| many day. Printed in HANDS )me style an
hound IN beautiful paper covers for the very
low price OF thirty cent?, each volume of this
edition ought to have a large aud rapid sale.
Order and purchase of Mansford, on Main
street.
THE AMERICAN ANGLER has a special
issue for the trout season of 1888 that is a
very attractive reminder of cool shades and
delightful retreats beside running walers, with
hook and line and a bosom friend. 1t comes
with the regular May issue, and, no doubt,
| will be sought for by every man who can
| handle the rod and knows bite from q nib
BILE. Published al 252 Broadway, New York.
Mansford, on Main street, has it for sale.
ONAMExIcAN MUSTANG THROUGH Texas
is a new book by Sweet & Knox, the humor-
| Gus editors of the famous Tzas S1iing8 1t
will be work of $50 pages, giving size ches
of the characteristics, eccentricities and afro
cities of some of the qusintest people in some
| Of The gueersst corners OF the United States,
and gill contain more than 200 original
iilsstr atisns, drawn by the best artists in our
country.
Hounuror MIrPrrN a n oF Ros,ov,
will shortly publish the Autobiography of
IAuriow Weed, which must touch innumera-
BILE points of interest in the inner political
history OF New York and the United States.
Mr.. Weeds relations with Stale and national
| officials were so intimate and Influential,
and he was personally so winning a man,
| that the story of his life will bs exceedingly
interesting. Mr.. Weeds autobiography il
| to be published BY subscription, and we
doubt not agents will End it a book that sells
| itself.
PORTER q COATES, the authorized publish
ers, by direct arrangement with the Comte
| de Paris, have Just received the concluding
pages OF the advanced sheets of the third
volume Of the History of the Cira War in
America, by the Csmie de Paris, and an
| nou,ce that it will be ready in about
month. This volume embraces, without
| abridgment, the filth and sixth volumes of
the French edition, and covers one of the
most interesting as we'll as anxious periods
| Of the wsr, describing the opera iions OF the
| Army oil The Potomac in the Essi, ssd the
Army of the Cumberland and Tennessee in
| the West during 1868.
"THE GOSPEL OF THE SECULAR LIFE ia
| the title Of Il series Of sermons preached at
J Oxford, Eogland, by the Rev. W. II. FIRE.