The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-28
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Boston: D. Lothrop Co. Price S100.
Mr.. Alden is born story-teller, and the
multitude of boys who have hung delighted
over "The Moral Pirates" "The Cruise of
the Canoe Club" and "The New Robinson
Crusoe," will hail with expectations of new
enjoyment "The Loss of the Swansea"
Nor will they be disappointed 1t is story
of the adventures of two boys who fell into
the hands of pirates off the southern coast
$50 years ago. Some of them were content
with merely robbing the vessels they capt
ured, while others left no soul alive that fell
into their hands. 1t was from a crew of
the latter kind that the two boys escaped,
aud the narrative of their sufferings and
final escape is of interse interest.
FAIR MAID OF MARBLEHEAD. By Kate Lannot
Woods. John w. Lowell Company $50 Worth
street, corner Mission Place, New York.
Paper, 90 cents.
This is one of the best of this class of
stories, and is interesting reading.
The sixteenth volume of Alden's Mani
fold Cyclopedia is out, and a very good
volume it is. 1t runs from Galvanized
Iron to Cog and Magog" The cyclopedia
is very handy one, and at the same time
meets all the ordinary demand for such a
work. 1t is finely bound and well printed.
John B. Alden, publisher, New York.
The STRUGGLE FOR IMMORTALITY. By E.
Phelps. Houghton, Miffiin & Co., New York
Cloth, 81 25.
This is volume of seven essays, some of
which have already appeared in the North
american ReuietO and in the Forum.
They are all first-class and are well worth a
careful reading.
THAT OTHER WOMAN, by Anne Thomas. Frank
f. Lowell & Co., 142 and IA Worth street.
New York. Paper, 80 cents.
This is a charming little story, with a
good plot.
MAGAZINES
For the certain reading of its articles.
Hdrper's Magazine does not depend upon
the artificial interest which the mere fact of
their appearance within its pages is sure to
excite. 1t does not need to. Popular in
terest in the magazine exists before the
magazine appears; for every number takes
up subjects which are before the worlds
mind as important topics for the present
and for the future. For example, the
November number contains two articles of
pan-American value; one by Thomas A
Janvier. describing "The Mexican Army"
which Frederic Remington illustrates with
fifteen drawings from life, and pointing out
what the excellent organization of its mill
tary forces signifies for the future of Mex
leo; the other by the former envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary of the
republic of Colombia to the United States
Hon. Ricardo Becerra, on 1.-THE Republic of
Colombia" giving a trustworthy account
of the resources and the present social,
economic, and political state of Colombia.
The fiction and the miscellany of the num-
Der are excellent Harper & Brothers,
New York.
Scribner's Magazine for November con-
tains a third African article-a valuable
addition to the notable papers of Prof.
Henry Drummond and Joseph Thomson; a
discussion of some startling problems in
international law affecting the United
States in the event of another European
war; the description of an old Spanish
university by a well-known novelist an
explanation OF the relation of electricity to
health by a high medical authority; an
army surgeons account of the modern san
itary corps which relieves the sick and
wounded; and interesting essays, fiction,
and poems Most of the articles are riclly
illustrated. Dr. M. Allen Starr writes of
ELECTRICITY in Relation to the Human
Body" drawing the line very sharply be-
tween its legitimate use and quackery.
This article is a thoroughly wholesome and
acute presentation of a subject on which
the public is frequently misled. There is a
great deal of other interesting and valuable
matter in this number. Charles Scribner'S
Sons, New York.
The Atlantic Monthly for November
opens with very interesting article by
Mr.. Woodson Wilson,on the Character of
Democracy in the United States"
which is an excellent specimen Of
tho kind of consideration Of politics
which makes the Atlantic so particularly
va liable to thoughtful persons. Another
political paper called THE French-in-
Canada" is contributed by Mr.. Eben
Greenough Scott. Artists and amateurs
will be interested ia "Allston and His
Unfinished Picture Materials for Land
scape Art In America" by Charles X.
Moore OF Harvard university, will also
interest the same class q readers. M
James "Tragic Muse Mr. Bynners serial,
aud the short story called 1.-THE First
Mayor" by Octave Thsnet, form the fiction
Of the number. The magazine has that
scholarly and literary air which particu-
larry eBdeers itself 10 the man q letters.
Houghton, MIfiiin a. Co, Boston.
The Forum for November hasseyeral ar
ticies lhat wlli attract attention, Among
them arsi "ModerB Claims Upon the PUl
"a /" BY ths Very Rev y. w. FaFrlF, arch
dsaeon u Wsstuinsler. who declares ti.al