The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-03

scenes OF long ago. M. Taylor writes
with the enthusiasm of strong ma ure
and with & humoy that is captivating.
He sees p'e'ry whrre others see but
the ordinary pleasures Of common
life, and invests with the gov of q
lively Imagination the scenes go IA
mlllar TO Amer car homes Ae the
b ston Transcript says: Some OF The
poems in the volume are destined TO
as wide populariy ss LongfelIow' g
Village Blacksmith or Wnittier's
Maud Muller OF these are Mary
Buffers Ride Going to Spelling
School, and the 'Psalm Book in the
Garrett What is there 10 the range
OF American poetry more beautiful
than the concluding stanzss of the
latter 2"
d. LATHRoP & Co., OF Boston, have
just published new volume from the
pen of MARGARET Sidnev, entitled Hes
Ter and Other New England Stories,
which we heartily commend to our
readers. OF the writer's OF New Fog
land stories many are called and few
are chosen. IT. is comparatively
easy mstier for one eBilled with the
pen to construct a story, the incident
OF which shall b. efficient to chain
the re der's attention. But the facul-
ty OF imbuing it with the New Fog
land spirit, of surrounding it with the
New England atmosphere and OF en-
dowlng its cbarat iers with the genu-
inc and peculiar New Eng and speech,
that is a gift that is shared by less than
half a dczsn of the great n ultitude tf
writers of books aud for the general
press in the whole country. Doe Of
these few is Margaret Sidney, whose
sketches OF N,w i gland li'ehe pre-
sented aye inimitabe for their bright
nefs and naturalnCss, and the fsitAful-
ness of their local color. The Incl
dents which form their groundwork
are such as might happen in any
county neighbo hood. There is no
strainiOg for effect; their characters
dIop naturally into their places, and
come and 20 SIS they do in real life
A WRITER in TIE Hartford Post,
speaking OF Messrs Houghton, Mifllin
& Co.'s calendars, says: Hardly a
better method OF ipjs,ting little
wholes ms j. aven into ones life ex SITS
than that Of hanging one Of these clas-
sizes at your desk 1t home or office, and
noting, as you eye the dsie, some
axiom or aid to more comfortable
living" OF the eight beautiful calen-
dars for 1887 which are published by
Houghton, MifiliD & Co.,, two are new.
These two are compiled from the
works Ct Robert BrOwning and Ma
thaniel Hawthorne. The calendars
published in previous Yeas, made up
of selections from Emerson, Holmes,
Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier and Mrs.
A. ID. L. Whitney, are also re ssued for
1887. All these calendars are brought
out on pan entirely new, the Chief
features OF which are the additional in
formation given, In reg ard to the day OF
the week upon VIII CHI each day OF Tie
year will fall, the consecutive number
IL each day OF the year, the days on
which the moon is new and full, the
anniversary of notsd events and Of the
birth of famous msn, ecclesiastical
and civil days, information respecting
rates OF postage and measures OF
length, weight and capacity; also dates
of the eclipses during the year 1887,
and OF the morning and evening starr.
All the Calsndars are mounted on
cards most attTaCtively decoFa'ed in
gold and colors. All except the Whit
ney calendar contain portraits and
other artistic designs drawn fiom the
authors Iesidept e., or from chsrac ers
or Incidents NTH ir W itings.
THE STORY OF THE NATIONS is the
most unique and the me st valuable of
the many series" now bsfore the En-
glish speaking public. As THE AP-
PEAL has b fore said, it ought to be a
Standard with every academy and COL
lege in the country. Every one Of the
volumes that we have cen goes back
to the very dawDings OF history, Civ
ing all that ia known of the peoples in
their crude and early savage condi-
tons, tracing their migrauons and
mixtures and pa nting their lelis ious
and mo al conditions in the plain and
unmistskabl colors OF truth. All
that Is latest and best, and therefore
reliable, in the sciences of ethnology,
of language, Of religion, of arch zoology,
of nat onhood and government is here
availed OF that the path of the young
scholar may be made emooth, and he
may enter upon the study OF
nations and peoples with
comprehensive understanding The
volume upon Carthage, wIiuen by
A fred Church, Profess or OF Latin in
Universi'y College, London, is in all
these respects quite equal TO its pre-
decessors in this saries aud its illus
trations are as valuable. 1t is the his
tory of a nation where rise and pro-
gress possesses unequal interest for
the holar and student and whose
death, 30 comparatively sudden, is one
of the marvels OF his ory. Prof.
Church 10 frank in all that he sage.
He contesses In the opening chapters
the difficulty he encountered in pro-
curing anything like reliable data for
his foundation, but that owe come he
takes his readers with ease and COM
fort through one OF the mosl enter
tanning and enhancing volumes of
history. We again commend this
series to the reading public.
STANLEY HUNTINGDON, a novel, by
Sydney J. Wilson, the B. Lippincott
Company publishers. This book is
dedicated to DR.. s. A. Rogers, OF Men,
phis, and it's occasional Teferen ces to
this city give it peculiar interest to
the Memphis reader. II is peCu lar
book. Questions of greet interest to
the South come up frequently in its
pages, but without the negro dialect,
domestic scenes and political mon
ttrosities that are the almost estab-
lished staple materials of Southern
novel. It's discussion OF Southern So
cial and domestic matt 70 is z ave and
very earnest, and to our mind more
peAsimstic than the pl ogress now
making among us end the promise OF
prosperity now strongly foreshadowed
will Justify. The negro is man, and
like Others hiss bis good and his bad
qualities, TO the latter of which
the author is keenly alive. As
psychological study, Stanley Hunt
iingdon is deeply interesting. The
hero, under the impulse Of Strong
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