The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-11-05

tie can't.
How can he frolic with better-fed friends
" when. IN cold perspiratiOn he's at his wits ends
IL MS Wash-woman after her half-dollar sends2
He can't.
And the following unique proposal appears
also In this budget of wit and huruor:
Paddle your own canoe"
| They told me long ago.
In mine there's room for two
VIII you a-bOating go?
POEMS DE us, OF MRS s; JANE E. D. CoNKLIN Sold
Dy Clonney & LILY, BinghamtOn, n. Y. SI.50.
This Is an attractive volume. in blue and
gold, containing 90 short poems They ara
simple IN style, with an easy rhythmic flow,
Siany OF them aresspOn religious themes, and
all breathe spirit of tenderness aud purity.
| WINTER FUN. By VIM. o. Stoddard New
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Mr. Stoddard has made friends with thu
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! THE LAST MEETING; a Story. By Brander
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The scene OF this story is laid in New York.
lts nero Is an artist who was kidnapped and
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| THE REIGNING BELLE. By sfrs. Ann :. Stanb-
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TWO KISSES. By Hawley Smart. Philadeiyii..:
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FROM SHAKSPERE TO POPE. By Edmund
Gosse New York: Dodd. Meade & co. sold
in Washington by Beall Sl.75.
These essays are more deliberately styled
IOOuIrV he md
of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England
The chapters were written in response TO an
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This book is one of his best
SAKOONTALA; OR, THE LOST RING. An: in
dian Drama. Translated from the SansEsit Of
Kalidasa. BY Monier Williams. VI. A. Sew
York: Dodd, Meade & Co. Sold in Washington
by Ballantyne. $50.
But 20 years have elapsed since the great
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Hindoo scholars thought and wrote 20 centuries
ago.
The Magazines.
The North American RevieV for November pre-
sents very attractive table of contents. Among
the more striking features are Part III of Adj
miral Ammen's "RecollectiOus and Letters of
Grant; "Statecraft and PrieStcraft" very
able paper by Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff; "Abrahan
Lincoln in Illinois," by E. B. Washbnruc;
Race Prejudice" an exceedingly spicy article
by Gail Hamilton, and "A Letter to the People"
by James Parton. The number Throughout is
a most excellent one
The Bay State Monthly is styled IS Massachu-
sets Magazine" but it may well find friends
elsewhere The October number has Is articles,
embracing great variety and afiording much
instruction and pleasure to the reader. Pub
iished at rs Milk street, Boston.
The Maga=iRe Of american History for No
vember has the following attractive table of
contents: Portrait of James Wadsworth. Tie
Wadsworth House at Geneseo (''HistOrc
Homes y by Frederick G. Mather; "Thc Bat
tie of Bladensburg Burning of Washington
in 1914, by Hon. HOratio King; "Witchcraft
in Illinois," by John III. Gum; The Cam
pagn of 1S61-1662 in Kentucky" unfo!dgd
through the correspondence of its leaders
Second paper. By Gen. VIM. Farrar e. BaIdy')
Smith; "a Ride With Sheridan" by A. ID.
hOChHell, VI. H., bOhDarunent ana zap
ture of Fort McAlister," by Col. Chas. e. Jones,
jr., LID, C. S. A. Among the minor topics
are the Objects of Interest on Saratoga Battle
field in 1885," by VIM. l.. Stone, Secretary of
the Saratoga Monument Association, and Re
union of the Army of the Tennessee" An au-
tograph letter of Richard Varick 17S3) is
given and there are Notes, Queries. Replies,
Societies; Contributions to the photography
of Historical Societies in America-IY, by
Appleton P. c. Griffin, and a number of book
notices The current issue of this magazine is
a most readable aud instructive one.
Ogtrie's Popular Reading, No %, contains:
Bride for a King; Over the Sea; Nellie, the
Clockmaker's Daughter; Brenda York;
Shadow on the Threshold, and Reaping the
Whirlwind. The frontispieee represents Sweet
Pansies.
NOTES.
Capt J. z. Steere has published descriptive
and historical guide to the Central Branch
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol
diers at Dayton, Ohio. 1t contains much inter.
esting and valuable information respecting this
admirable institution.