The National tribune., 1885-09-24
RECENT LITERATURE.
Magazines.

| Peters0n's Observation-Disclosures The Star of
tie Night Literature Sweeter Than al the
Roses; After the World Was Burned Up; A
Vision, poem; Cecil Dare; Mont Silver a
poem; The Star of the Night; The Lemon Tree
of Paradise, a poem; My UncIe's Story; The
Answer, poem; The Clouds Mission, poem; !;
A Romance of Block Island; Stolen, a poem !;
l Love You, Love! Know Not Why, poem !;
The Wilertons; The Modern Minotanr; Union,
poem; That Horrid Dress; Fashions Colored
Fashion Plates; Wood Cuts of Fashions; Colored
Patterns in Embroidery; Designs in Embroi-
derry; Pattern for Patchwork; Editorial Chit
Chat; Notices of New Books; Our New Cook
Book; Puzzle Department; Mothers Depart
mont; Health Department.
Babyhood.-Notea and Comment: Baby's Nurse;
Nursery Cookery; The Nursing of Sick Chill
dren; Dangers to be Avoided; Songs and Plays
in the kindergarten Baby's Wardrobe; Nur-
sery Problems; Compulsory Kissing: Pastime5;
Stray Leaves from Baby's Journal; Nursery
Helps and Novelties; The Mothers Parliament;
The Nursery CatcEall; Nursery Humors.
Popular Science Moptaiy.-Conteuts: New
Chapters in the Warfare of Science. 1.-The
Doctrine of Comets; The White Ant A Theory,
tlllnstrated) The Early Study of Plants; On
the Solar Corona; The Relations of Railway
Managers and Employees; Tommasi- Crudeli on
Malarous Countries, and their Reclamation;
The Energy of Life Evolution and How 1t Has
Acted, Qllustrated); "The Metaphysical So
clety": Reminiscence; A Study of Recent
Earthquakes; The Trading Rat: Tissue-Selec-
ton in the Genesis of Disease; Sketch Of Pro-
fessor Fl. A. Newton, with poTtrait); Editors
Table; Literary Notices; Popular Miscellany;
Notes.
z. P. RoE's NEW BOOK.
If, as some one has estimated, the average
book is read by seven persons before it finds its
way to field of practical usefulness in light
Ing the kitchen fire, E. Z. Roe must have the
gigantic constituency of five million readers,
for his publishers, Dodd, Mead &c Company in
announcing new novel by him, say that
three-quarters Of a million copies in the
aggregate of his stories have been sold by them,
and that they have had to make new electro
type Plates of "Opening Chestnut Burr" and
" Barriers Burned Away" this season, the old
ones having been worn out by the many
editions that have been printed from them.
The new story, which will be published inn
mediately, will be called "An Original Belle"
The plot is laid in New York, and opens in the
early days of the Civil War, reaching its culmi-
mating scenes in the riots, where the hero makes
love and wins his lady consent behind doors at
which an infuriated mob is battering.
At the same time will be issued Driven
Back to Eden,' story for young people This
has been running through ST. Nicholas" and,
when published, will be greatly amplifed and
used in the magazine
As its title indicates, it relates the affairs of
family who, tired of the restrictions of the
city, take small farm in the country and start
life affesh. As they have to make their living
the book is to considerable degree practical |
Though nominally for young people it is
book that will be read by their elders with
equal interest. 1t will be uniform in size, etc,
with the novels.
Miss Martha Finley, whose well-known |
series, the Elsie Books, has been augmented |
annually by new volume, comes forward this |
year with still another. called 1.-The Two |
Eisies," Dodd, Mead & Company Publishers. |
Since the first volume was issued, some II years
ago, Elsie has been carried on from childhood |
through lifeS various stages, until now the |
volumes deal with new generations Apparently |
the young people find them of even more in |
tercst, for tho demand for each new volume |
exceeds the last. and her publishers claim that |
the Elsie Books are now the most popular series |
of girls stories issued.