National Republican., 1884-05-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER IN EGYPT. BY
w. W. LoRING. illustrated. New York. Dodd,
Mead Co. Washington: Robert Beall. Price
$3.50.
The author has added another to the by no
means inconsiderable number of books of re-
cent date on the same subject. BY reason Of
his long residence in tho land Of the Pharaohs.
Gen. Loring, who was for several years Fe-
roek Pasha and general in the army Of tho
khedive, is in o position to write upon his
chosen theme intolligcntly with force and to
purpose. There may bo nothing new nor
startlingly original in Gen. Lorings work,
and it may at times tire tho reader with un-
important details, yet 1t Is nevertheless worth
perusal. 1t has been laboriously and carefully
written, and will last for moro than O day.
THE STORY OF CHINESE GORDON. BY A.
EGMoNT HAKE. New York r. WOrthington.
Washington: Brentano Brothers. Price, $3.50.
The work is dedicated TO tho friends and
admirers Of Chinese Gordon. The historian
is an earnest admirer of the horo whose life
and character he has undertaken to sketch.
Ho takes up tho thread Of tho story whom
Charles Gordon began his career as q soldier
in tho Crimca in 1905, twenty-nino years ago,
and he carries it along up to within very
recent date. The story is an interesting one,
aud it is told without the slightest attempt at
literary flourish. 1t has evidently been pre-
pared with care, though there are OCCASION
ally marks of hasty preparation.
OUR CHANCELLOR; Sketches for Historical
| Picture. By NORTH BUSCH, Translated from
tho German by William Beatty Kingston. New
New York: Charles SCribners Sons. Wash
| ington; Ballantyne. Price, $3.50.
Bismarck belongs to tho number of great
historical characters whose personalities arc
as interesting studies as their achievements.
He has in him an element about which the
world will never tire Of reading. "Our Chan
cellor" pictures the man as he appears in the
lights and shadows Of his varying moods and
strong passions 1t is q clear, rugged portrait
of the great German as ho is, true to the life.
RISE AND FALL OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN
THE UNITED STATES, BY RUFUS BLANCH.
ARD. Chicago: The National School Furnish
ing company. Washington: Brentano Broth
This is very useful little work, and its
circulation will not be confined to the school
room. There is much condensed, plainly
told history compressed into the 220 pages Of
the volume. In work Of this description
there is neither room nor cali for embollsh.
ments.
LESSONS IN LONGEVITY, PARAGRAPHS ON
HOME HYGIENE, AND THE ART OF PRO.
LONGING LIFE. BY JOHN B.. HAMILTON. NJ.
u. Washington: William II. Morrison.
The surgeon general of the United States
marine hospital service, in writing his los
sons on longevity ondeavors to inculcate the
belief that longevity is not only possible, but
that it is in great degree in ones own control
subject to natural law, and this thought runs
through every paragraph.
PLANTATION LAYS AND OTHER POEMS. By
BELToN o'NEAlL TOWNSEND, Columbia, g. c.
Charles A. Calvo.
1t is we'll that Mr.. Townsend does not have
to depend upon the sale of his verses for
J living, else crackers and water would be tot
luxurious a sustenance for him. plantation
} Lays" is a weak production and not deserving
; of further notice.
A STUDY OF THE PRINCESS. By s. z. DAWSON
D Second edition. Montreal: Dawson Brothers
; This little volume is what the title indi
Gates, criticism and analysis of Tennyson'
poem the Princess, with explanatory notes
. A letter from the poet to the author is printe
in the preface.
STORIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS, VOL
New York; CHARLES SCRIBNERs Sons. Wash
ington: Ballanyne. Price, 90 cents.
> This latest number of Scribner's new seric
contains stories by Fritz James o'Brier
Frances Hodgson Burnett. George Parsor
!, Lathrop, David ID. Lloyd, Celia Thaxter, an
) Brander Matthews. The stories are readable
. but No. is not quite up to the standard.
: THE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER; A Manui
: of Photographic Manipulation, Intended Esp
caly Tor Beginners and Amateurs BY FL
LERsiIg WALLACE, Jr. Philadelphia: Porter
Coates.
The processes Of tho Photographic art al
i fully set forth by the author and little n
z mains to be learned after the student hi
!? mastered the forms and learned the rules h
> lays down for guidance.
SERMONS TO THE SPIRITUAL MAN. h
WILLIAM G. I. sHEbD. ID. b. New York Charl