The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-09
RECENT LITERATURE.

ZoRoAsTER; BY F; Marion Crawford, author of
Mr. isaacs ~" DIR. Claudius,' etc. Published by
Macmillan Co. New York For sale g. ID by Rob
"Zoroaster" is the fifth of the series of nov
els which Mr.. Crawford has given to the pub
lie. The critics say that it is not so good as
any one of his preceding novels, but it is, be-
yond doubt, above the average story. and one
that is fascinating in interest and we'll worth
reading in every way. "Zoroaster" is a Per-
sian prophet of the time of Belshazzar; he is a
pupil of Daniel and the betrotbed of Princess
Nehusta, a beautiful young Jewess. The chief
merit of the book is in its vivid descriptions,
especially those relating to the Court of Bel
shazZar.
THE TINTED VENUS. A Farcieal Romance by
F. Anstey, author of Vice Versa" The Giants
Robe" etc. Published by ID. Appleton & Co.,
New York Price, IS cents. 4
Mr.. Anstey. who suddenly sprung to the
front rank Of romance writers by his wonder
fully clever "Vice Versa" has more than
maintained the place he first assumed by his
subsequent works. which are all good and all
add to his reputation as writer of sustained
power. This latest work is a very bright, cap
tiyating little effort.
Magazines.
Magazine of american History. Contents:
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln; Washington in
March and April 1861 Beginning of the Civil
War in America; Military Affairs in New York
State in 1861; Seizure and Occupation of Fort
Pulaski; March of the New York Seventh
Regiment; The Seventh Regiment at the Capt.
tai in 1861; Wall Street in the Civil War; Origi-
nal Documents; Minor Topics; Notes; Que
ries; Replies; Societies; Contributions to the
photography of Historical Societies in Amer
lea; Book Notices
The English Illustrated ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Reflections; The Art of Acting; The Pilgrim !;
Age of the Thames; In the Lions Den; In the
New Forest; The Sirens Three; A Family At
fair; In Memoriam; Headings and Initial Let
tiers.
Vide Awake.-contents: Frontispiece; A
Builders Lesson; Marcus Americas; Tit for
Tat; Fourth Of July in the Rue Petit Jean; A
Shower; She Hath Done What She Could !;
The Glorious Fourth How the Middies Set Up
Shop; Miss Pollys Fourth Jacks First Cruise;
The Big English Bull; Crow Warnings; Hero
IS of the Poets; A Queer Village; A New
departure for Girls; A Ballad of Kenilworth;
What the Jackdaws of Kenilworth Said; The
Governors Daughter; Perita Jane; When I
was Boy in China; A Double Flank Move
ment; July; The Child's Paradise; At Grand
fathers; Tangies; The Children of West
minister Abbey Souvenirs of My Time; The
Temperance Teachings of Science; The Making
of Pictures Boys Heroes; Entertainments in
Literature; G. Y. +. Il. o.. PostOtfce.
Oglrie's Popular Reading. No. 49, contains the
following stories: A Flaw in the Marriage
Chain, by Emma d. Southworth The Three
Cousins, by May Agnes Fleming; One Summer
Month"; by popular author; The Two Plump
lingtOn Heroines, by Anthony Trollope; Light
in Darkness and Other Sketches by Miss Mu-
lock- Diary of Minister'S Wife, part two, by
A. M. Brown. The frontispiece this month is
q very handsome Autograph entitled "Our
Uncle from the Country"
Lippincott's July number contains the
following: On This Side, by F. G. Baylor; A
Temple Pilgrimage, by Henry Frederic Red
dali Mees," by Chas. Dunning; The Next
Vacation by Alice Wellington Rollins; The
Pioneers of the Southwest, by Edmund Kirke;
Dien Dispose, by Nathan Clifford Brown |;
Joseph ]. Mickey, by j. Bunting; The White
Whales, by c. F. Holder.
Our Little Ones. - Contents: A Picture !;
Naughty Nasna Chow-Chow Polly's Baby;
Hickory, Dickory, Dock; A Meadow Song;
Our Mocking Bird: Trotties Doings; Seven
teen, Eighteen, Maids in Waiting The Pigs
Chowder Party Pussey's Adopted Children;
Seven Times One; What Katy Did; Pull the
Weeds; Thistledown.
Nep Masic.-John Wiegand, talented mnsi-
clan, has composed Grand GAR. March ="
for the piano organ or band, and it has been
published in sheet form by Ignatius Fischer,
Toledo, o. 1t is very stirring melody.
The Southern Birouac-Since B. F. Avery &
Sons. of Louisville, KY, have got possession of
the Southern Birouac, they have made 1t a most
attractive little monthly, nicely printed and
well illustrated. 1t is devoted entirely to war
"reminiscences from the Confederate standpoint,
and both scholarship and talent for writing is
displayed in the contributions to its pages.
The Biroaac is furnished at So q year or 20
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