The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-22
LITERARY NOTES.

IHE cARITARlAN LOT May ID au un'
usually excellent number. The pa
pers that in the main make up its IT,
bic O. contents are all OF them timely
and from the hands of experts.
Or the Mothers of Great Men and Wo-
men, by Mrs. Laura Carter Holloway,
published by Funk x Wsgnalls Of
New York, Gov. Bate, who knows the
author well, writes: Il am delighted
with it. ] fnd itrsplete with personal
incidents and social facts, graphically
aod gracefully grouped around each
character, investing reality with the
charm Of romance. The easy and I'M
affected style, az lucid as it is graceful,
ia which you have woven boy-life, as
1t receives impreSte5 for manhood,
under the guidance of mother-love,
deserves beautiful compliment. Your
book is eminently Preside compan-
lou, interesting alike to the old and
the young; and, wiihal, an ornament
to any library. With less social and
s,mi-official eclat about it than your
LGdies of The White-HottSe, yet it is re-
garded as superior in all its make
up" Your friends here, in your ma
tive place, remember you with pleas
uFe, and look with hope and pride to
your literary efforts"
No BOOK of the season equals in
richness and artistic effect the SOU
veOir OF the beautiful actress, Adelaide
Nelson, which Mrs. Holloway has
written and Sarony illustrated with
excellent photograph portraits. The
sketch is graphic pen-picture OF the
beautiful woman whose brilliant dra-
matte career is known all over the
world, and whose life was one OF
strange vicissitudes and great achieve
ments, of many sorrows and lofty til.
umpbs. She was Shakespeare's
outlet" the incarnation of all that
be conceived his Verona heroine to
be, and the loveliest personality that
has graced the English stage at any
period of time. Mrs. Holloway has
made most interesting sketch OF her
subjec', and the mechanical makeup
of the book is beautiful and rich in all
respects. The illustrations include
picture OF the grave OF Miss Nelson.
So lovely souvenir has never been
offered the public, and, considering its
artistic beauty and the interest attach
ing to the subject, the work is the
most desirable and, indeed, the chief
holiday book of the season. Send or
dsIs to Funk & Wsgnalls, 10 and II
Dey street, New York.
FUNK & WAGNALIs of New York
have just published bridal edition of
Mrs. Laura @. Holloway's beautiful
work, The Ladies of the White House,
containing a sketch and portrait OF
Miss Folsom, the bride-elect Of Presi-
dent Cleveland. 1t will be a superb
werk, containing twenty.fvesteel p1r-
traits, an engraving of the White
House and eight rich wood-cuts,
made especially for this volume. The
sketch of the Presidents bride is
timely addition to the work, which is
an epitome OF national history, COM
plete recital OF the domestic lives of
the Presidents and the members OF
their families, from the beginning
of the country's government. 1t has
met with phenomenal success; il is
perennial. With each new admins
Iration it has a new addition, thus in
cr52sing It's va'ue and popularity. The
present bridal edition, revised and en-
laryed, is now complete record ofthe
Presidents from Washington 10 the
present Chief Magistrate. 1t is the
only work of its kind ever written,
and in the pos scutiou OF her task Of
wiring it the author brought not only
an enthusiastic patriotic sentiment,
but such unusual facilities as were
offered by the powerful aid and CO.
operation OF late President of the
United Sta'eg, and the intimate social
relationship with his household, For
Tennesseans this work will have eepe-
eial value when they know that Mrs.
Holloway is a native OF this State, a
woman who, by the sensible exercise
OF her talents, has made very envi-
able. name for herself in the literary
world