Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-02


man in the country better qualified than he
To give us such An one and one, moreover
that shall be as interesting as II will be criti.
cally lust aud reliable. l will have more to
say about 1t as soon asi comes out
HoUUuroN, ,MIFFLiN 4 Co., of Boston, are
my farorite publishing house, partly because
one can nearly always rely on the excellence
of the character of their books, partly because
they are the most uniformly artistic in their
work, and partly also because they have done
and are doing more than all others combined
for the encouragement Ot the best and high
est efforts of our American liriA'ur" la par
tiCular. Not only are they biiugIug out n
new Riverside Edition" of Emerson, Long
fellow, Holmes and the splendid "Way-
side Edition" oi Hawthorne, but they also
announce number of new books on Ameri-
can subjects 10y American authors which l
am impatiently waiting to see
FoRENoSr among these is Lowell's"pemo-
cracy, aud other Addresses" which will soon
be issued in ssingle volume But what
rich volume IT will be II the address on
"Democracy," delivered at the Midland in
stitute is the most profound, scholarly ana
graceful exposition OF the principles of
American government, the 'Other Ad-
dresses" are no less thoughtful, exhaustive
aud charming studies of Garfield, stanley,
Fielding, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and ON
though that his machless essay on Gray can
not be included in the volume. l confess
that am fairly hungry for this book. To
have 1t all printed and bound together il 80
much more satisfactory than to have the parts
scattered through various periodicals-and
especially II printed and bound by the River
side Press
OTHER very important books from this
firm will I've the eighth and ninth volumes of
their american CommOHWedi,hs SERIES
which are to be on "New York." by Ellis
II. Roberts 1t seems NJ: Wayne Nc
Weighs Pennsylvania Will not be read y
for some time yet In the American Men Of
Letters series a tenth volume will soon be
forthcoming, which cannot fail to be as inter-
esting and as important As any Of its prede-
cessors in this admirable series 1t will be
on " Benz amin Franklin" by the historian,
Prof. James Bach McMaster. The paral el
series on imsricUH NGteSmdH Is rapid v
running ahead of the two former in the num-
ber of volumes issued. 1t is to be enriched
during the coming season by five new
volumes, thirteen having already been pub
lished. The I'VE new ones are to he "Thomss
Benton" by the Hon Theodore Roosevelt,
Henry Clay" by the Hon. Carl Schur2,
" George Washington 10y Henry Cabot
| Lodge, "Martin Van Buren, by the Hon.
| VIM. Dorsheimer, and "Patrick Henry" by
| Prof Moses Colt Tyler. Besides these parti-
| cularly American books, there will also
| slOrtlN COule from tIle hlNeTslIs fre-S Miss
| Murfree's latest novel "ln the Clouds" now
| being concluded a. a serial in The Atlantic
| Monthly, and containing in some respects
Ahe strongest work this gifted Southern
| writer has yet produced; IA collection OF
| charming short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett,
| one of our most graceful and wholesome
| American female writers of fiction; TO
| be entitled "A White Heron, and Other
| Stories" Then DIR. Washington GLADDEN. :
| recent clear-cut aud vigorous essays and ad
| dresses on social questions are to be published
| in book form under the title of "Applied
| Christianity" They are all OF them pecu-
| liarly timely, being candid and fearless is-
| cussons of phases of the labor problem from
| the Christian standpoint One of the most
| popular OF this firms coming books, think,
| will be the Memoirs and Letters of Mrs
| Madison for Mrs. Madison was one of the
most charming historic women of our coun.
| try, and the inner history of her times cannot
| but be exceedingly entertaining. We have
the promise also of a volume OF sketches en-.
| titled 1.-THE Round \ ear" by Edith Thomas,
! whose prose writings have all the fresh yigor
yet datntiness OF touch, scientific accuracy
| yet elusiye fancy, that make her poetry SO
| enjoyable and lasting in its worth. Mrs.
| Phelp ps's characteristics, tonic short story,
| "The Madonna Of the Tubs" - to be brought
out in a beautiful volume with forty-three
| illustrations OF the scenery and characters
| from studies and designs made on the spot
| by the two artists Ross Turner and George
| II. Clements. In some respects 1t Will be a
| unique volume