Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-28

UNDERSTANDING Oh tne way DuSlHcSS Is
carried on in general, All this knowl-
edge comes in inoidently, and in con-
nection with the story. The book is
very handsomely printed and bound.
"TnE RING IN THE CLIrF.r by Frank West
Rollins, Boston: ID. Lothrop Co.
Here is a book which tho boy whose
taste has not been vitiated by dime
novels will read with hearty enjoyment.
1t is a story OF healthy adventure, full
of life, and not overcrowdcd with Incl
dent. Its hero is a lad of seventeen,
who from a child has been fascinated
with sea life, ant who determines that
when the time comes he will be sailor,
and the history Of his adventures in
the accomplishment of this purpose is
sufficiently thrilling to enchain the at
tention of the reader to the close OF The
volume.
"kARMEL THE SCOUT" by Sylvanus Cobb,
ir.. New York. Cassell 81 Co.
1t is a tale of revolutionary times,
when the country was young and the
red coats of st. Georges army dotted
the landscape DER, and when the cooked
hats of the continentals were seen bob
bing up in unexpected places to the dis
comtture of the reds. The country
seethed with romance in those days and
the novelists have not beer slow to seize
upon it. Among these, none have got
a tighter grip upon the atmosphere of
the time than Sylvanus Cobb, jr. 1t is
hard to tell where truth and fiction are
welded together in this story, the writer
has used his materials with SO much
cleverness. We have officers who
actually did figure in the great struggle,
and we have others whoowe their being
entirely to Mr.. Cobb's fertile imagina-
ton.
NOTES.
Isabel F. Hapgood, who is spending
the yea III Russia, has written an eX-
tended account of the visit of Emperor
William to Russia for the Independent.
II. II. Stoddard wrote "a short lyric at
Sag Harbor, Long Island, on August IA,
which the Independent publishes in its
current number. This is the first poem
Mr.. Stoddard has written for over "a
year.
Messrs. Cassell e. Co., with a lively
appreciation of the timeliness and of
public interest, have just ready a new
and enlarged edition brought down to
date of their valuable volume on
yachts and Yachting" The history
of American yachting, which forms the
larger portion OF this book, is from the
pen Of the late Captain Roland F..
Coffin, whose sudden death this sum-
mer, while in the performance of his
duties as yachting editor of the New
York World, is still fresh in the mind
Of the public. Some forty pages have
zen added, giving a complete history
of American yachting in 1856 and 1887
by Charles E.. Clay, editor of Outing,
and author Of Bermuda Yachts and
Dinghies." These new chapters are il
Illustrated with portraits of all the best
known new yachts, including Mr.. Van
derbilt's Alva and Mr.. Munro's Now
Then.
The September Forum (which begins
the sixth volume) will contain a review
of the republican national platform
from a democratic point Of view by
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky. Plank
after plank is taken up and discussed
by the light of the republican party's
record. To this number the Marquis of
Lorne will contribute a study OF the
government of the United States, the
result of his observation while he was
governor general of Canada. He writes
with enthusiasm about many features of
our government, and points out several
reasons why he regards a republican
government as stable. The third of
the series of economic article which
convey the latest Investigations of Mr..
Edward Atkinson into the condition of
american CdplJdl anu ldDOF. Is bHc IlOSJ
instructive that he has yet written. He
shows by diagrams how the wage-worker
in the United States has steadily ad-
vanced and how capital continues to re-
ceive a diminishing return. Rev.
DR.. Munger, perhaps the leading Con-
gregational preacher in New England,
will point out the benefits that religion
has received from the death OF
many superstitions caused by the sclen-
tific spirit OF the time. There will be
seven other articles in the initial num-
Der in this new volume on such subjects
as "Social Discomfort" the effect of
High Explosives in Changing the Meth
DDS of War; the management of Rail-
ways" and the Increase of the AL
cohol Habit.
A non-partisan statement OF facts and
figures showing what the tariff is, what
its use, object and effect, it's origin and
history, with definitions of terms ex-
planning the operation OF specific and
ad va!Oren duties, and giving the differ
ence between a revenue tariff and a
protective tariff, together with facts
about wool sugar., lumber salt and coal,
and statistical matter convenient for
reference as to all matters usually con-
sidered in tariff discussions; also the
tariff planks of all the platforms of the
democratic, whig and republican
parties from 1910 to 1888. 1t is the
whole subject in one little volume of l44
pages, by Judge w. A. PETER, editor of
the Kansas Farmer. Prince 25 cents n
single copy, postage paid in all cases.
Address H. A. Heath, Kansas Farmer
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