Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30


MEXICAN RESOURCES AND GUIDE TO MEXICO. By
Frederick A. Ober. l vol, paper, Price o. CTS
Boston: Estes Lauriat.
MAGAzlSEs-The CsRtnry, 81 Nicholas, The BOOK
Buyer, The PofHte|.
Volume VIII. Of Charles Scribners Sons
Stories By American Author" is out.
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The Messrs. Routledge intend to bring
out an edition of "Don Quixote," with the
fifteen etchings BY George Cruikshank. 1t
will be printed on Dutch hand made paper,
he edition being limited to 500 copies, 100
ofthem being on large paper.
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Mr.. William Black has written novel
entitled white Heather" the first chapter
of which will appear in the January number
IF ''Longmans Magazine" As the story
IS also to appear in "Harpers Bazaar the
American edition Of the magazine may
suffer.
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The recent destruction by fire in London
of Van Laun's Characters Of La Bruyere
does not affect the edition for America.
Only 500 copies of the work were printed,
200 of them being intended for this coun'
try. The work is illustrated with twenty
four etchings.
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Mr.. Julian Hawthorne's biography Of his
father has been cordially received By Eng
Iish critics. The London Times says that
Mr.. Hawthorne approaches his task in
manly spirit, and with robust reliance
upon his father character as a whole, in
GLIDING its defects as we'll Us its many and
unusual excellences. The work is by no
means conceived in spirit Of excessive
lsudation, aud its psychological and human
value will be all the greater III consequence;
The Standard in reviewing the book de
.lares that the opinion steadily grows that
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the most consider
able literary parsonage the United States
have as yet produced. Probably nobody
will question that statement.
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/ Mr.. L. P. Roe writes to the editor Of The
Literary World: "Who ever the reviewer
of nv latest novel, freely acknowledge his
right to criticise my books with the utmost
severity or to condemn them altogether,
but he has no right to say of me or my
friends what is unjust and untre. The re
viewer in your columns writes: we under
stand that Mr.. Roe's own estimate OF his
novels is privately expressed to his friends
in about this language: II don't think
they amount to very much, but they seem to
| sell pretty we'll" Permit me to say that
| if, animated by the spirit you suggest,
| smoke in this vein to those who honor me
with their friendship they would not remain
! ,riends LIDO not think that one Of them
would tolerate a man who triies11 to pall On
| for money what heregsrded as comparative
| IL worthless, and am at a loss to know
| low YOU have been led to understand that
| privately express myself in a way thai
would ALLEVIATE any person Of sense aud
selfrespect. do not know what my books
amount to- Time and the public will settle
that question"
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Three yasSsr Girls in South America.
Mrs. Champney's latest addition to the Vas
sar Girls Series, is well-written narrative
of the adventures of three girls during a
| FIVE months tour across South America.
The party. including, in addition to the
heroines Of the story. number Of male and
female friends, embark at New York for
Para, touching en- route at St. Thomas, and
thence they voyage up the Amazon and
| Madeira rivers to their headwaters. cross
the mountains 10 Lima and Callao. then
coast along shore northvsrd to Gusyaquil,
take n run up the country to Quito, and
then, after returning to the coast, set sail
for the Isthmus, go BY rail 10 AsPinwall, and
there embark for New York, touching q.
Havana on the way. All the principal
points of interest in this long tour are de-
scribed in an interesting and instructive
way, the text being profusely illustrated
| with engrsviugs, to the number OF one
hundred or more. A daintily-woven love
story runs through the volume, the trip and
book being concluded with an engagement
or two, in which the VsSsar girls play a
prominent part TIE illuminated bosrds 10
which the book is boand are too gaudy to be