Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-28
LITERARY NOTES.

ALASKA: Its Southern Coast, and the Sit
ban Archipelago, is q new book by Eiizs
Ruhama Scidmore. In this well written and
exceedingly interesting volume the author
opens up to Us q country which notwith-
standing so much has been said of ii, 10 yet
very imperfectly known. Although it Is
nine times as large as New England, and
twice as large as Texas, it Is the popular
impression that it is all q barren, i~nhospitsle
region wrapped in snow aud ice the greater
part of the year, and that a visitor to its
settlements must undergo perils almost
equal to the Greedy relief expedition. Miss
Scidmore in her book dispells this illusion
in a most summary manner. She spent two
summers in Alaska, and therefore speaks
from personal knowledge.
Miss Scidmore's descriptions Of the vari-
GUS places she visited and the curious things
she saw are vivid and pieturesqe, and one
can learn more of both from her pages than
all the official reports that have been pub
lished. 1t is a book that ought to have q
vide popularity. 1t is we'll illustrated and
contains a map reduced from the the last
general chart of Alaska published by the
Coast Survey,
The book is published by D. Lothrop L
Co, of Boston, and is for sale by j. B. Will
aon, 1902 Market street, Wheeling, W. Va.
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CHINA. By Prot. R. K. Douglass, Of the
British Museum. Edited by Arthur Gilman,
N. A. Illustrated. This volume
Just in the time when there IS a
a strong demand for something brief, exact
and authoritative in the way of Chinese his
tory.
The author of the volume before US had
exceptional advantages for making such q
book as Just now the public demand and
need. He was for several years a resident
of China in an official capacity and studied
the people and their mode Of Ii rom sctu-
al observation. The various chapters OF the
work deal with the history of the empire in
brief, its government, religions, its eduea-
tionsl system, the nurture Of the young, SUI
perstitions, funerals and wedding rites, the
language, food aud dress, honors, architec-
ture, music, medicine and other subjects.
1t has been critically read by the young
Chinese scholar, Mr.. Van Phou Lee, OF Yale
| College, who has suggested a few notes: It's
completeness is added to by an analytic
table of contents and al index.
For sale by j. B. Wilson, 1902 Market
street, Wheeling, W. Va.
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The July nsmber Of the Magazine OF
American History is a remarkably strong
one. 1t opens a new volume and also its
promised Civil War Papers. Its fronts
piece ia o portrait of President Lincoln. 1t
contains the following able and finely illus.
trsted articles: Washington in March and
April, 1861" by Lieut-Gen. Chss. B. Stone;
beginnings of Civil War in America" by
General Thomas Jordan; "The Seizure and
Reduction of Fort Pulaski" BY Col. Chas. C.
Jones, Jr.; The Military Affairs Of the State
of New York in 1861" BY General Meredith
Read; THE March Of the Seventh Regi-
ment," by the Editor; Wall Street in the
Civil War" by George Rutledge Gibson, and
several other interesting articles, among
which are short papers on President Bu-
chanan, by Hon. Horstio King. The entire
number 10 one of the most readable and at
~tractive ever issued. Published at 30 LSts-
yette Place, New York City. For sale by
booksellers.
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The July number Of Qua LITTLE ONEs Is
full of good things for little people. There
ave fourteen short stories and poems written
by the by the best writer's. The illustrations
are attractive.
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CHOLERA; its History, Cause, and Pre-
vention," by Ezra A. Bartlett, NJ. D., is one
of the late publications. of b. 81. Bender,
II and Is State street, n. \. The book
contains los g of valuable information
on this dread disease, cleaned BY the author
from the most trustworthy sources. 1t is
divided into six chspters-on the history,
cause, propagation and prevention OF chol
era, on hygiene Of food and drinks and on
disenfection.
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Russia under the Tzars" by Stepnisk,
aud rel dered into sturdy English by vii.
liam Westfall, is q book well worth the
students attention. Indeed it is q book
for everyone who wishes to know intelligent
" the inner workings and special features
ofthe interior political history of these re-
markable people. The brutal and arbitrary
methods Of this dispotic government In its
treatment Of SUSPICIOUS subjects is told with
such vividness that thrills Of sympathy AUD
horror alternately sgitate the reader.
Charles Seribner's Sons.
For sale BY Stanton & Davenport, city.
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In this weeks issue of The Current June
27), William Cabell Bruce begins a valuable
series of articles entitled, The Duel in
America; Frank C.. Hsddosk presents the
second and concluding paper upon Names"
W. B. Stevens discusses the American
Power of Assimilation" the title Of Protes.
sor Swings weekly contribution is The
Morale of Architecture; the second Of z,
G. Cheverton's facinsting series, "At Ma
lures feet" is given; John McGovern
writes upon Labor and thought; John
Cotton Dana has On interesting paper en-,
title Progress and Woman; Mary Isabel
Patterson presents the first chapter Of q
short serial entitled "a Swamp Sketch
Absalom Greeley writes about "Csnsds's
Destiny; and Chapter XXXII. of E. P.
Roe's serial, IAN Original Belle" is given.
The number also contains several pretty
poems.