The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-10
SOME NEW BOOKS.

The text is assisted by illustrations. Published
by the 0. Judd Company, New York. Price, 10
cents.
''The Silver Bridge, and Other Poems,' by
Elizabeth Akers, is a collection of some fifty
short poems, gracefully written and showing
true poetic instinct. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin
d Go. Indianapolis: The Bowen Merrill Com
pany. Price. 81. %.
Under Blue Skies is a collection Of twenty
two short poems by Mrs. S. ]. Brigham, hand
somely illuminated and each one accompanied
book for children, and a very beautiful one.
New York; Worthington Company. Indianap-
olis The Bowen-Merrill Company. Price, s.
"Irene, or the Road to Freedom,"is a novel
by Sara Bailey Fowler. 1t seems to be designed
as protest against some of the alleged wrongs
of women, particularly in connection with the
marriage state, and intended to promote sort
of advanced philosophy in regard to love and
matrimony. Published by Fl. N. Fowler Il CO..
Philadelphia, and sold by The Bowen Merrill
Company.
"Frcm Meadow Sweet to Mistletoe" is a col
lection of pictures and verses by Mary A. Lath-
bury. 1t is holiday book for children. There
are about twenty snort poems, all bright,
musical and pleasing Each one is handsomely
illuminated and accompanied by a beautiful
full page engraving. 1t is printed on very
heavy paper and elegantly bound. New York:
Worthington Company. INDIANAPOLIS: The
Bowen Merrill Company. Price, 81. 90.
Charlotte NJ. Yonge, author of "The Heir of
Redclyfe," published many years ago. cannot
be said to lag superhuous the stage. when
she can produce so spirited a novel as "a Mod
ern Telemachus" The incidents, sensational
enough to be purely imaginary, are, the author
says, strictly founded on fact, and they are
grouped and handled very effectively The story
reads like a true one. London and New York:
Macmillan & Co. Indianapolis The Bowen
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Drawing from Memory" by Madame Marie
Elisabeth Cave, is treatise what is known
as the Cave method for learning to draw from
memory. The author is French lady and this
work has run through four editions in Paris.
In its translated form it is revised and enlarged
by the author. It is very instructive book for
young artists 1t is published by G.. p Put
Dam's Sons, New York, and will be followed
soon by another work by the same author, enti-
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Bowen-Merrill Company
"Ronald Halifax or, He Would be Sailor"
is book for boys, by Arthur Lee Knight author
Of 'The Gun Room Heroes" and other works. It
is the story of an English lad who, while boat
ing. drifts to sea, is picked up and becomes a
sailor. Then there follows the usual narrative
of ocean adventure, fights with pirates. etc.
Among other things the author introduces de-
scription of the engagement between the Mon
itor and the Merrimac. 1t makes an interesting
chapter, and is accompanied by good engrav-
ing. New York: Frederick Warne 81 Co. In
dianapois: The Bowen Merrill Company.
The London Times once styled Benjamin T.
Taylor ''the Oliver Goldsmith of America"
Probably this gives him too high rank as poet,
but he is certainly very graceful writer and
his poems have given pleasure to thousands of
readers S. c. Griggs & Co., Chicago, have is
sued Complete Collection" of Mr. Taylor's
poetical works. and it would be difficult to find
volume of poems containing a greater number of
sweet and musical ones. For frontispiece
there is an engraving of the poet, from paint
ing by Healy. The Bowen Merrill Company;
price, ST.. 75
rather curious book is 'Coniuror Dick, or
the Adventures of Young Wizard" by Angelo
Lewis Professor Hoffman,, author of Modern
Magic, etc. It is written in the form of an auto
biography, and purports to be a narrative Of
how the author first became alegerdeunainist and
of his experiences and exploits in the business.
Incidentally the author gives an inside and be-
hind -the-scenes view of a number of we'll known
tricks The narrative is enliveneG by the intro
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nance. London and New York: Frederick
Warne 81 Co. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill
Company. Price, $3.50
Harry Raymond; His Adventures mong
Pirates, Slavers and Cannbals," is book for
boys, by Verney Lovett Cameron, author Of
ACROSS Africa" etc. The author is command
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with nautical matters-perhaps little too ia
mlliar, for the book contains a good deal of sail
or's lingo. 1t is, however, well-written and in
terestlng narrative of exciting adventure on sea
and land. The descriptions of fights with pirates
are graphic enough to captivate boy readers.
while the adventures among the savages on land
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Frederick Warne & CO. Indianapolis; The
Bowen Merrill Company. Price, 81
New Historical Atlas and General History"
by Robert Fl. Laberton. is a new edition Of
work of recognized value. The plates of the
former edition having been destroyed by fire,
this is an essentially new atlas. The maps are
based on the highest authorities, and carefully
engraved. The text is compendium Of general
history, and the maps and the text aid and sup
plement each other. There are nearly two
hundred maps. The book shows wide research
and great labor in its production and is equally
adapted as text book for higher classes in his
torical geography or for literary use New
York; Townsend MacConn. Indianapolis: The
Bowen Merrill Company. Frice, 81. 40.
Confessions and Criticisms" by Julian Haw-
thorne, is a characteristic book, conspicuously
marked by the authors faults, merits and man
nerisms. 1t is, withal, an interesting book.
There are eleven essays with the titles ''Novels
and Agnostlcism." 'Americanism in Fiction"
Literature for Children" ''The Moral Aim in
Fiction" 1.-THE Maker Of Many Books" Mr..
Mallock's Missing Science" Theodore Win
throp's Writings" Emerson as an American"
Modern Magic" and American Wild Animals
in Art" The gem of the collection is the open
ing essay. entitled IA Preliminary Confession"
1t is charmingv frank and full confession by
Mr. Hawthorne of how he became an author and
of the various steps by which he advanced to
public notice and fame. He gives the inside his
tory of some of his novels, and relates many
curious and interesting incidents scted with
their creation and publication. 1t is probably
the frankest and fullest confession" of the kind
on record, and makes very interesting reading
The book is published by Ticknor & Co. Boston,
and sold by The Bowen Merrill Company.