The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-26
BOOK NOTICES.


& Co, New York. 81.
The author regards 1888 80 as a more
important period in the history Of the
United States than 1S61-'65. o. this point
he says: "Our civil war was indeed an event
of prodigious magnitude, as measured by
any standard that history affords, and
there can be little doubt of its decisiveness
+ & But it was the work done
in the years 17S3-'S9 that created a federal
nation capable of enduring tile storm and
stress of the years lS6l-'65. 1t was in the
earlier crisis that the plant twig was bent,
and as it was bent so it has grown" This
work bears the mark of careful research
and conscientious thought. 1t will Ger
tainly find favor with scholars.
OK HoRsEBAc K; Tour in Virginia, North Caro-
lima and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in
Mexico and California. By Charles Dudley
Warner Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York.
Cloth 81 -.
Mr.. Warmers writings are always inter
esting, and the present volume is no excep-
ton to the rule The sketches of tie scenes,
incidents and characters which come under
Mr.. Warmers notice are very interesting,
and often very amusing. His way of pre-
senting what be sees and hears is a very at
tractive one The present volumeis certain
TO be well received.
AMER1oAN LITERATURE, 16O7-1sSs. By Charles
F. Richardson. Vol. II. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
New York.
In tais second volume the works of Long
fellow, Poe, Hawthorne, Cooper, and Others
whose names are known in American litera-
ture, are reviewed at length. There are
some very able criticisms of phases of
American literature and valuable comments
on its papers. The volume is valuable as
well as an interesting one.
DIVIDED LIVES: Novel. By Edward Fawcett.
Beford Clarke & Co., New York, publishers
Paper so cents.
This is Mr.. Fawcett's latest and most
powerful work. 1t is the story Of beauti-
full young girl, who, through the interven-
ton of female friend, is made to believe
her lover unworthy of her, and marries an
elderly millionaire in fit of pique; and of
the divided lives" of the two lovers in con-
sequence
THREE GREEK CHILDREN; A Story of Home in
Old Time. BY Rev Alfred J. Church, NJ. A.
G. A Putnam & Sons, New York.
This is somewhat out of the usual run of
stories. tits the story of home in ancient
Greece, and there is an effort to give a cor
rect picture of such home. The style is
excellent, and the more one reads of it, the
more interested one becomes.
Seven Stages. By T. c. DeLeon. The Gossip
Printing Company. st. Michael street, Mobile
Ala. Paper, so cents.
This is very good story and is we'll told.
1t is particularly well adopted for holiday
reading. 1t is bright and extremely inter
esting.
BATTLES AND LEADERS OF THE CIVIL WAR, Nos.
81 and %. The Century Company, Union
square, New York, Price so cents.
These war papers are deservedly popular.
They are printed SO as to be bound into
volumes, and very handsome volumes they
make.
THE DARK House BY G.. Manville Fem. D.
Appleton & Co, New York, publishers.
This story will be found to be we'll worth
reading 1t begins well and ends well.
The interest which it excites in the opening
chapters does not flag.
ALDENs MANIFOLD CYCLoPEDIA-The
issue of the tenth volume calls attention to
the rapid progress which this excellent
popular cyclopedia is making. The pub
Usher promised the volumes at intervals of
about a month; he is recently more than
keeping his word. The volume extends
from Cosmography to DERRY. contains
about $40 pages and about 100 illustrations,
handsomely printed and neatly bound i /
cloth, all for 50 cents. j. B. Alden, pub
Usher, 393 Pearl street. New York.
MAGAZINES.
Scribner's Magazine completes its second
year and fourth volume with Christmas
number containing nineteen interesting
articles in prose and verse-twelve of them
fully illustrated by well-known artists and
engravers. Among the artists represented
are Elihu Vedder, J. Allen Weir,W. Hamil-
ton Gibson, John La Fargo, Robert Blum,
George Hitchcock, G. Jay Taylor, and NJ.
j. Burns. The number is rich in beautiful
decorations and pictures. The literature
deals with unusually attractive phases Of
life and art especially fitted for the Christ
mas season. The fiction includes stories of
adventure ard sentiment; the general
articles treat of stained glass windows,
the Adirondacks in winter, and Botticelli;
there are several deliberately illustrated
poems; and Lester Wallack's "reminiscences
are concluded. Robert Louis Stevenson, Il.
C. Bunner, VIII H. Low. Rebecca Harding
Davis aud Hamilton Wright Mabie are
among the contributors. The magazine
opens with picturesque description of
winter in the Adirondacks," by Mr..
Mabie, who appreciates ''the fawles' per-
fection of form, delicate precision of out
line, exquisite tracery of bough ard twig,"
which make up the complex impression of
the woods in winter. Mr.. Stevenson con-
cludes for this year his series of monthly
papers with "A Christmas Sermon"--a
familiar talk about happiness and duty. The
fiction of the number is abundant, and each
story is illustrated by an artist in sympathy
with the authors methods. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons, New York
The December number of Ha,per's is an
exceptionally good one. 1t is the Christmas
number, and no effort has been spared to
make it meet expectations. The originality
O! Its pages is, PERHAPS, most strik ing in tho
short stories 1.-THE serial stories all ended in
the November number)-as in 1.-The Christ
mas Story of Little Church. by Grace
King, "Sosrus Dismal" by w, w. Archer,
and 1.-THE Front Yard" by Miss Woolson-
this last being daring comparison of ltal-
ian and New England natures and ways. In
poetry, too, the number is exceptionally
good. Artistically, it has never been sur
passed. "The LAST Mass is story by
Walter Besant. The writer puts the mar
rative in the mouth of a sweet English
girl, who tells of her love and
her lover, of Queen Bess, the Spanish feet
and an old Roman Catholic abbess, a relic
of England under the papacy. Those &C
ouainted with Mr.. Besants style need no
assurance that he has written a delightful
sketch. Mr.. W. D. Howell's farce, entitled
"a Likely Story" is a rafting comedy OF
errors. with the scene laid around a charm
ing breakfast-table and the verandah Of a
country house. There is always a Christ
mas flavor about the departments of Hdr-
ner's Mdgazine for December, but it is
iupossible to avoid the suspicion this year