St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-08
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Every month shows a decided i'm
provement in the American Magazine.
The July issue is particularly interest
ing. While maintaining its high liter
airy standing, preference is given to the
class of matter which is appropriate for
summer reading. Wilfred Patterson
has wellwritten and finely illustrated
article OH the famous "Walters Art Col
lections;" DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton,
the eminent brain specialist, contributes
an entertaining paper on ''Spiritualism
and Like Decisions" in which are many
statements that spiritualists will not
like TO read, inasmuch as the doctor
mind. Among other things, this paper
shows how chemicals may be used in
producing spirit pictures.
Table Talk for this month contains
some delightful simmer reading. The
number opens with an illustrated poem.
The Editors Midsummer Days
Dream by Joseph Whitton; then fol-
lows pleasing page essay, Education
in Cookery" by Hannah Hawthorne;
''New Menus for july" by Mrs. Rorer:
story by Jonas Longbow, entitled
THE Facts About Cephas Johnson"
GA Sea 'Scape," by Melville Moran;
July poem, by William Struthers;
than Easy's Dif1iculty;" ''Dick's Hat
Band,' a story for the juveniles. by
Payne Teller: Questionable Luncheon
and Tea Toilets by Tillie May Forney;
1.-The Thoroughly Dinners;" 'sFemi-
nine CraZeS;" "Dining-ROOm Facts and
Fancies;" Home Decorations :" 'Our
Cooking Club" ''Mattie's Housekeep-
ing Experiments :" Kitchen Toilets:''
Mrs. Rorer'S answers to "HOuSekeep-
ers' Inquiries ;''s'New Things for Table
and Kitchen;" ''WOman's Exchange
Movement" ''After Dinner Talk" and
puzzling problem in verse. wherein
the curious reader may discover Gf he
is smart, and not inclined to wait till
next November) exactly who is to be
our next president. If he is successful,
conglomeratiOn of cash, red bandan-
mas, American flags, and Patent Office
Reports, awaits him, from which to
choose the reward of his labor and in
genuity. Table Talk is published at
402, 404 and 406 Race street, Phlladel-
phia, at 10 cents a copy.
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Dodd, Mead & Co. announce for an
early issue miss Lou" a story the
author of which is given as ''Mr.
Roe" Are we to infer that it is
our own Z. P. Roe, or his am
bilious rival, E. r. Roe, who strangely
enough is stealing e,reverend's thun-
der. ''Nliss Lou'' is to be Southern
story, Of which the author says: sit is
my rule never to permit an arbitrary
will to assert itself in the construction
of narrative, thus eliminating the
elements of spontaneiety and natural
missed summarily. Almost before |
was aware of it, she began to take
strong hold on my interest and sympa-
thy. and l saw in her and her expe-
riences larger possibilities than | had at
first suspected. To still further explain
himself. MIR. Roe (E. p. or E. R.?) says:
MY characters reveal themselves
mainly by what they do and say them
selves and not by what say about them.
Almost the entire story is woven about
a cavalry raid, with its rapid action, it's
strange blending of comedy and tragedy.
The chief motif of the story is to show
how an unconventional girl, ignorant of
life, met the vicissitudes and passed I'M
scathed through many ordeals, by sim
pie fidelity to her unperyerted woman
hood"
The Book News says: A representa-
tive of Sampson, Low & Col quoted as
saying to an English journalist that the
firm has been sadly disappointed at the
reception of the "Great Cryptogram:'
that they have not yet disposed of the
: first edition, and that.in the Technology
OF, ''the trade" the book is a '.frost.h
AT the great circulating libraries it is
but little in demand, and whilst few
ask for the first volume, very few in
deed ask for the second"
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Belford's Magazine, of which Dom
Piatt is the editor, starts out with fair
indications of taking front rank in the
army of monthly periodicals. Col.
be assisted by David A. Welles, frank
Hurd, Prof. Sumner, John &. Carlisle,
HelIy WattersQn, Henry George and
host of other good ones. Julian Haw-
thOrne to the current number contrib
uteS "a Dream and a Forgetting"
and Appleton Morgan has a paper on
1.-The People and the Railways" A
novel feature of BelfOrd's will be that
1t will give independent support to the
Democratic party and editOrially sup
port the doctrine of tariff for revenue
only.
Among the new books announced
Tariff History of the United States,
by Taussig, and In Castle and Cabin. by
Pellew. Putnam, publisher.
Complete works of Shelley. edited by
Richard Herne Shepherd. Lippincott
publisher.
Odes of Horace, edited by De We're.
Whitaker publisher.
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The ngersoll-Gladstone contro-
yersy is continued in the July North
American Review with additions from
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Proctor, Coll
yer, Rabbi Mendes and Coudert. Satan,
nevertheless, remains just as active
as he was previous to the time DR.. Field
called on Pope Bob. Congressman
Read writes of democracy at st.
Louis" and Congressman Rayner of
tissues of the Coming Campaign