The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-07-31
RECENT LITERATURE.

KITTY KENT. By Julia A. Eastman. Published
by +. Lothrop & Co., Boston. Paper. % cents.
This is No. 8 of the charming Young Folks
Library which Messrs. Lothrop & Co. are pub
fishing. 1t is very pleasantly written and
nicely gotten up.
History and Influence. By Prof J. III. Patton,
author of "A Concise History of the American
People" How We Are Governed" etc. Pub
lished by Fords, Howard-SS Hubert, New York.
Cloth. Price, 81.
This is a remarkable book, giving the his
tory of the Democratic party from its forma-
tion and bringing out number of very I'M
portant facts not known to any but those who
have made a careful study of our Nations his
tory The book is well written and attractively
gotten up. 1t should be in the hands of every
student of politics, and that as soon as possible.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY-From its Organization to the Presiden-
tial Campaign of 1884. BY Eugene Smalley. Pub
hshed by John b. Alden, New York.
This is a much-needed little work and should
be in the hands of every young man In the
country. The table of contents gives a fair
idea of the character of the work: introduce
ton; History of the Republican Party; Re-
publican National Platform; Early Republi-
can Leaders; Republican Victories; Reduction
of the Public Debt and Interest. Tables of the
Electoral and Popular Votes at every Presi-
Dental election since 1856 form an appendix of
the work.
A HISTORY OF co. F, 1sF u. 8. SHARPSHOOT-
ERS. By Lieut.-Col. VIM. Y w. Ripley. Price, 81.
Published by Cassius Peck, Brookfeld, VT.
This is a splendid little memoir by the
"Fighting Colonel" of the splendid regiment
of Sharpshooters, made up of picked men from
every State in the North. and which Col. Ber-
dan led TO the field. 1t tells the story of Co. L
of that regiment, and incidentally that of the
whole regiment, with fascinating simplicity
and soldierly directness. 1t is really soldiers
book, and for giving true picture of battles,
marches, sieges, and angry skirmishes, is worth
all the histories on good-sized shelf.
The Magazines.
The Centmy.-The Midsummer Holiday
Number" of this Queen of Magazines outdoes
even its predecessors, which is the highest
praise that can be bestowed on any magazine
The frontispiece is dainty bit of conception
and execution. 1t is entitled "Daffodils that
come before the Swallow dares,e and illustrates
charmingly the lines from the Winters
Tale":
o, ProserpinaI
For the flowers now that frghted, thou let'st fall
From Dis's wagonl daffodils
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
But sweeteT than the lids of Juno's eyes,
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses
That die unmarried before they can behold
Bright Phebus In his strength.
This is an appropriate illustration to one of
John Burroughs bright, fresh, woodsy papers,
"a Glance at British Wild Flowers" an essay
that is written as only that sweetest of our
modern prose poets is capable of writing of the
delightful things of nature Of special value
are Miss Edith III. Thomas's "a Summer Holt
| night" and DR.. Edward Eggleston's "Ameri-
| cans at Play" W.T.. Steads "Chinese Cor
don." and Miss Helen Zimmern's sketch of the
Queen of Roumania. Alexander Hynds gives a
very interesting sketch OF Sam Houston, that
@I.aa -Jr
see and Texas.
Other illustrated papers are the third part of
Mrs. Van Rensselaer's series on Recent Ar
! chitecture in America dealing with Com
mercial Buildings; and the first paper of q
classical series by William ]. Stillman, On the
| Track of Ulysses" in which he describes his
trip by yacht TO the supposed places visited by
| Ulysses during his adventures as described by
| Homer in the Odyssey. The illustrations were
| drawn for the magazine by Harry Fem.
In the matter of stories, the most inYeterate
reader Of fiction viii find an abundance in
the first part of q new novelette, by Henry
| James, sketehing several American types in "a
| New England Winter ~; the first part of a ro-
mantle novelet, "a Problematic Character
by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen; another of Frank
| r. Stockton's humorous tales the "Remarka-
| bic Wreck of the Thomas Hyke"; an Illus
| trated humorous story OF the Greenwich Quar-
| ter in New York, entitled An Effect in yell
| low" by Ivory Black" the author of Rose
| Nader" which appeared in the May number !;
| and continuation of Mr.. Cables DIR. SEWER"
which contains stirring scenes Of the opening
/ Of the war, probably as vivid and effective as
| anything Dir. Cable has yet written.
| The serious side includes an important paper
| by Isaac L. Rice who lays out Work for q
| Constitutional Convention y; he would have
| Cabinet members sit in Congress and be respon-
sible to the country for the inception of logis-
| lative work and the execution of the law
Of the land; striking paper by the Rev. DR..
/ Washington GLADDEN., on Three Dangers -
| to Society, meaning Intemperance, Divorce,
| and Business Gambling. The latter subject
| is also discussed in "Topics of the Time y
along with Republican Institutions and the
/ Spoils System; some harmful Legaces of
the War;; and American Monumental Art"
ST. Nieholas.-The contents Of 50. Nicholas for
| August are: Frontispiece, "An Interview with
the Central Park Sheep" by James Monks
| Old Shep and the Central Park Sheep by
Franklin IL North; "Sweet Peas" by Susan
Hartley SWEET; "The S. T. B. P" by Helen
Campbell; The Gra5shopper," by William III.
Hayne; The Philosophers Escape" by Eva
Loyett Carson; "How We We're Burnt Out in
| ConstantInople" by Oscanyan "a Bobolink
and a Chick-a-dee" by Jingle; "a Sea Turn, -
by Jessie McDermott; "Fried's Doves" by
| Blanche Willis Howard "a Fish Acrobat by
C. +. Holder; "The Little House in the Gar
| den" by Louisa III. Alcott; "Fans,n by Bessie
! Hill; "a Yankee Boys Adventure at the Sea-
| side," by Spencer Borden; "An Artistic Sur
| prise" by o. HEREFORD; Historic Boys by T.
S. Brooks; "The Witch Of Woody Dell'' by
Rev. Charles z. Talbot; Marvin and his Boy
Hunters" by Maurice Thompson; "The Gu
rious House." by Joel Benton; Paper: Its
Origin and History" by Chas Z. Bolton; For
Very Little Folk, +" by Mrs. NJ. B. Butler; "The
81. Nicholas Almanac" by Royal and Barr Hill
The number is simply splendid one, and can
not help delighting all into whose hands il
may come.
Vide AEake.-The August issue OF this Elk
cellent juvenile is a vacation number full
of the most delightful Midsummer fancies. 1t
starts off with a beautiful picture Of the Pixy
People," TO illustrate equally beautiful poem
by James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet
The Meadow Princess" by Miss Poulson, fur
nishes material for three daintily- conceived
pictures, and Esop's fable of "The Shepherd
Boy and the Wolf" has six full-pa drawings
Mrs. Frances a. Humphrey has a delightful
story for girls-"A Modern Kate Barlass. ?
The boys have their innings with huntint
story by (. A. Stealey. The remainder of tht
matter is equally attractive, as it must be
when it comes from such pens as those of Mis-
Sparhawk, Mrs. Raymond Blathwayte, Edward
Everett Hale, Miss Phelps, and other brilliant
regular contributors to Vide Quake
0giteie's Popular Reading No. s, contains
among other excellent reading matter, {" Mrs
Godfrey, by The Duchess :" q Your None,
or Your Life" by Wil1ie Collins; Brough
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