St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-26
LITERARY LITTLE BITS.
Chat About New Books and the Current
Magazines.

Chat About New Books and the Current
Magazines.
Cassell g. Co. have published a delightful
little volume entitled Kindly Light, consist
ing of selections in prose and verse for each
day in the year.
Pilot Fortune is very pretty story, issued
by Houghton, Mifflin e. Co. and written by
Marian Q. L. Reeves and Emily Read. These
ladies appear to have collaborated success
fully.
The Scribners have brought out in cheap
form another Of Mr.. George Parsons Lath-
rops novels, entitled In the Distance. 1t
ranks with the same authors Newport and
An Echo of Passion. 1t is well written,
Astounding with that delicate choice of cpl
thets which betrays the artist in language.
T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia,
have in press and will issue in few days,
Mrs. Ann s. Stephens new society novel,
entitled The Reigning Belle, which will be
foun to be one Of the most powerful, orig
inal and exciting novels ever published.
Every page teens with intense, absorbing
interest, which is maintained without
break. Though Mrs. Ann s. Stephens, its
famous and gifted author, has written many
superb romances, she has surpassed herself
in this. Fashionable society is literally drawn
upon, while lowly life also comes in for its
share OF treatment. The plot is thrilling, in
tricate and managed with consummate art, the
reader being kept in complete ignorance of
what the end is to be until it comes. The
Reigning Belle will be published in one
large duOdecimo volume, at the low price of
Is cents copy, and is certain to find hosts
of readers, for it possesses every requisite to
delight and fascinate them all. Mrs. Ste
phens, as writer, ranks among the best of
all American authors, and The Reigning
Belle and her other novels should be read
by every lover of absorbing fiction, for they
are among the best and most popular pub
lished, and will be found for sale by all book
sellers everywhere.
The Evolution of Dodd. By W. H Smith.
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price ST. Here
is book We should rejoice to see in the
hands of every teacher of youth in the coun-
try. 1t is living, breathing protest against
certain features of the present school sys-
TENS which obtain in various parts of the
country, from that of the kindergarten to
the grammar school, The points of the
author are so well taken, that the reader is
forced not only to admit the reality of the
evils he denounced, but to acknowledge the
justice of the conclusion at which he arrives.
How Success is Won. By Mrs. Sarah K.
Bolton. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price
ST.. This handsome volume is made up
of biographies of twelve men who have
achieved distinguished successes in the vari
GUS directions in which they turned their re-
spective energies. Mrs. Bolton not only re-
hearses the main incidents of their lives, but
shows that in every case the success and
honors attained were the result of industry,
economy and high and moral principle.
Among those selected to illustrate how sue
cess may be won under different circum-
stances are Peter Cooper, John B. Cough,
John G. Whittier, Henry NJ. Stanley and
Alexander n. Stephens. The several
sketches are bright and pointed, and the por-
traits which illustrate them add to their
value.
In Case of Accident is the title OF very
instructive little volume by DR.. D. A. Sar-
gent of the Harvard College gymnasium. 1t
should be in every household in the country.
D. Lothrop & Co. are the publishers.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers, No. q
West Twenty-third street, New York, will
soon bring out an edition of certain portions
of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures,
edited and arranged for young readers, and
designed as an introduction to the study of
the Bible. Such work will be well suited
for gaining the attention of the young and to
render the study of the Bible more interest
ing and instructive.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons announce
that they have in preparation series of
graphic historical studies, intended to pre-
sent to the young the stories of the different
nations that have attained prominence in
history. In the story form the current of
each national life will be distinctly indicated,
and its picturesque and noteworthy periods
and episodes will be presented for the young
reader in their philosophical relations to each
other as well as to universal history. The
stories will be printed in good, readable type,
and in handsome 12mo form. They will be
adequately illustrated and furnished with
maps and indexes. They will be sold separ-
ately at price of about $3.50 each.