The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-08
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ford, Clarke & Co., New York. Paper 25 cents.
This is rather startling story. Its I'M
probability, however, does not detract
from its interest
The VESeENcE OF MAURICE. By Selma Dolaro.
Belford. Clarke & Co. New York. Paper so
cents.
The author in this book has succeeded in
producing a story that is highly dramatic
and sensational. For holiday reading it is
certain to be popular.
THE SEARCH FOR BASIL LYNpHURsr By Rosa
Nouchette Carey. Frank F. Lowell & Co. l42
and IA Worth street, New York. Paper, 80
cents.
This is one Of the best stories of Lovelps
national series. 1t is q story that will be
read with absorbing interest.
TIE MAN OF GALILEE. By -Atticus G. Hay
good. Hunt & Eaton, New York, pub
fishers. Cloth, so cents.
This is one of the best of Dr. Haygood's
series of books 1t is dedicated to the
Emory Boys" who were with the author
IN the old college in 1S76-'84. 1t is not only
very interesting, but is also full of thought
Oh the purest and most elevating kind.
MAGAZINES.
The PdnSy for July has some fine illus
trations and great deal of reading matter
that will please the little folks. D. Lothrop
q Co., Boston.
The Cosmopolitan for July is an excel
lent number. A number of changes will be
made by the new management The first
of these will appear in the October issue,
when there will be an increase of eight
pages of reading matter. This is done to
make room for an innovation in the shaps
of complete novel of thirty-two pages.
These stories will be prepared for the Co.'S
mOpotitdn by some of the most distin-
gulshed American and English writers of
fiction. The first will be from the pen of
the well-known novelist, Col. Charles H.
King, U. S. A. 1t will be an army story,
beginning with cadet life at West Point,
and will be Illustrated by some of the clev-
crest artists who deal with military sub
jects. The Cosmopolitan, 363 Fifth avenue,
New York
The Overland Monthly for July opens
with the second part of E. j. Trippel's
Yuma Indians" their customs and festi-
walls and the government school are described
and illustrated. Prof. Joseph LeConte, the
well-known geologist, gives his impressions
OF the present state of the south during a
recent visit. From a southerner's stand
point he discusses the negro question, the
solid south, and many similar problems.
The stories are of the OuerLdnd'S usual high
grade: Who Died at Weissthurm? a study
OF TRANSPORTATION, by Ninetta Eames :;
High Explosives, tale of labor troubles
and dynamite; The Old Master, a ghostly
wartime narrative. There are also pleas
ing sketches and stories from several hands,
poems, editorials, and a large number of
reviews OF books of biography, fiction,
pioneer narrative, etc. The Overland, APO
Montgomery street, San Francisco.
Readers of the North american Reuie,U
for July will, perhaps, turn with the most
eager interest to the pages which contain
tender and graceful tributes to its late editor
and proprietor, Allen Thorndike Rice. They
are from the pens of his intimate friends
and companions, the Hon. William Waldorf
Aston, the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, Cen
William L. Sherman and the Hon. Lloyd
Bryce. The number opens with a strong
and-in view of the college commencement
season-timely symposium on Discipline in
AmericanColleges." Justin Mccarthy writes
IN an entertaining and instructive way
about 1.-THE Throne in England" While
he does not think that the throne is in i'm
mediate danger, he furnishes reasons for be-
lieving that state of things might easily
be created that would result in its over
throw. Miss Kate Fields incisive pen por-
trays most wildly the prevailing ignorance
of Alaska, and contends that we have by no
means realized our possibilities in that
quarter of the United States. William
Mathews, LID. writes strongly of THE
Negro Intellect" which, in his opinion,
supported by a convincing array of facts, is
in no sense inferior to that of the Cauca-
sian race North American ReUielU, No. 8
East 14th Street, New York