Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-26
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with s6 portraits engraved on steel. }. A.
Y K A. Reid. publishers, Providence, K. L.
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This work is complete in one volume,
and in appearance, style, and finish
leaves nothing to be desired. The author
is one Of the best known public men ofthe
country. AS writer and an orator he
stands in the front rank. After many
years OF service IN Congress he desired to
go abroad, and was given the Turkish mis-
sion, the place he preferred. There is no
doubt that he could have remained in
Congress during his life if he had wished.
He was popular in his congressional dis
trict and in Congress.
Mr.. Cox's style is easy, clear and grace
full. He presents his thoughts in language
that Increases interest in what he has to
say.
HIS BOOK covers the most intensely In
teresting period OF the country's history.
it was the period that included the agi-
tation which preceded the civil war, the
civil war, and reconstruction. Mr.. Cox
was in Congress during about all that
period, and ne played a conspicuous part
in its stirring events.
He was personally acquainted with the
leading men who figured in that period,
and with the great questions which were
discussed.
His book will be found intensely inter-
esting by the general reader and the stu
dent of history. Ii is made all the more
interesting by the introduction into its
pages OF many personal incidents and
anecdotes, which are related in the au-
thOr's happiest manner. Those who wish
TO get clear and reliable account of the
country's history from 1855 10 1885 cannot
do better than to read this work.
EVOLUTION AND RELIGION. Eight sermons
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"Dress: "As 1t Has Been, Is And Will
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MAGAZINES.
The October number of Dirie, the new
Southern magazine, is bright and full OIL
good things. The opening chapters of the
new serial, "In the Carolina Mountains
by Charles Edgar Jarvis, awaken interest
in what is to follow. Among the principal
features are Arcadia" a poem by
Il. A. Van Fredenberg. A paper on the
cause of Panics." Life Among the
Crackers" by ID. A. Bdine. Gen. Ed
ward McCrady's article on Studies Of
the southern Railroad Prob en-" sin
the Tangles Of Gray Moss" by Mrs. Willis,
OF Charleston. bon. A. j. New hiTter's ar
ticle, southern immigration" DR.. W est
moreland's Does Protection Protect"
! w. W. Habersham tells OF the wonderful
"Mineral Resources of the SOUTH" and
Paul H. Hayne contributes an exquisite
lyric, "LiOatiOn." ). W. POstell gives a
sketch OF the life OF Capt. W. q. Raoul.
President of the Georgia Central Rail-
road. DiIie continues to improve. and
its publishers announce several i'm
portant changes to be inaugurated with
the next issue.
The Eclectic for November has the fol-
lowing table of contents: "a Dialogue on
Novels" by Vernon Lee; ga Dark Page
of Italian HistOry;' THE Cholera Inoc-
ulation Fallacy;" "Reminiscences OF an
Attache;" Lord HoughtOn;' "Karu-
kaya," a story; ''Color Music;7 Para
dIse," a poem; the AutOmatOn Chess
Player" "0n tue Origin Of the Higher
Animals;" "Tegner;" "Mrs. Ii Hung
Chang's First Dinner Party" by Miss
Gordon Cumming; George EliOt's Pol
itics;" "Girton College in 1857 ''Coun-
ellis and COmedians;" "YIttOria Col
Onna;'' IN. Renan on HIMSELF" and an
unusual variety of foreign literary notes,
miscellany and book notices. The con-
tents are we'll selected and OF unusual in
terest and value even for this sterling pc
riodical.
st. Nicholas for November comes to
hand with a new and elegant cover. It is
the initial number Of the XIII. volume,
and in it began several new and enter
tanning stories, among them Little Lord
FauntlerOy," New Bits Of Talk for
Young Folks" by Fl. H. Helen jackson }.
''Our joe" Two Middies at Ephesus,'
etc. So. AlchOlas grows better as it grows
older As an entertainer and educator OF
the little folks 1t cannot b. surpassed
The Century Company, publishers, New
York.