The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-28
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ACROSS LOTS.-By Horace Lunt. Boston. d.
Lothrop Company. Price SIPS.
This is a delightful book. 1t is full of
the spirit of outdoors, and of tender SYM
pathy with nature. The papers of which it
is made up deal with the characteristics of
the various seasons, particularly with the
bird and insect life peculiar to each. Like
ThOreau and Burroughs, Mr.. Lunt is a per-
Sistent haunter of the woods and fields at
all times of the year. The chapter entitled
1.-THE Return of the Natives" in which is
described the spring arrival of the singing
bird, will be enjoyed by every bird lover.
FAvoRITE AUTHORS FOR CHILDREN By Mrs.
Frances A Humphrey. The Interstate Pub
fishing Company, Boston. 30 Franklin street.
This charming little volume can hardly
twelve portraits of leading American au-
thors, the chief of them being Longfellow.
The reading matter is we'll adapted to the
wants of the young folks.
THE SELF: WHAT Is IT? By J. s. Malone,
Waco, Texas. John p. Morton & Co., Louis
vile, KY, publishers
The author divides his subject into two
parts. Sensibility and Intelligence Each
part is dealt with in way to excite inter
est and to hold the attention. The entire
SUBJECT Is DTeS6uJeu u very
way, and besides, the views advanced are
such as command thoughtful consideration.
PROGRESSIVE HOUSEKEEPING By Catherine
Owen. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, pub
fishers. Wylly & Clarke, Savannah. Cloth ST.
This volume of $50 pages is full of practi-
cal suggestions. No housekeeper, however
well informed, ought to be without copy
of it. Every housekeeper can find some
Of INT aud ualuQ in ~ If Anale
with all the branches of house keeping, and
to the inexperienced housekeeper it is in
valuable.
Grassy. By Bret Harte. Houghton, Mif1in &
Co, Boston, publishers. WILLY & Clarke, Sa-
vannah. Cloth 81 Is
This story has just been published in the
MORNING NEWS, and a very interesting
story it is 1t is one Of Bret Harte's best
and those who did not read it in the MORN
ING NEWS should not fail to read it in its
present shape. 1t will well repay one for
the time spent upon it.
The sixth and concluding volume of ZAP
pletons' CycIop9edia of American Biogra-
phy' is rapidly approaching completion,
aud will appear in February. 1t contains
articles on Zachary Taylor" by his son-in-
law, jefferson Davis; on John Greenleaf
Whittier" by James Russell Lowell on
Henry Wilson. of Massachusetts,, by John
Greenleaf Whittier; and on Gov. John
Winthrop aud George w ashington,n by
Robert G. Winthrop. The editors, Prof.
Fiske and Gen. Wilson, contribute articles
on "John TYLER, Daniel Webster" and
Nathaniel p. Willis" The volume in
cludes an exhaustive index TO the entire
work, extending TO nearly 100 pages of
small type. The plan of the work renders
it, perhaps, tho most complete compendium
Of the history Of the American con-
tinent in existence, as it contains biographies
of the most important men and women Of
North and South America and the ad jacent
isles II also contains sixty-two steel en-
cravings, executed In r superior style, and
about 800 admirable vignette portraits, all
accompanied by fac-simile autographs, rem
dering it, beyond question, the most com
plete gallery Of American portrature which
has ever appeared. In addition TO this
wealth Of illustration, there are nearly 300
beautiful wood cuts Of birthplacos, resi-
dences, statues, monuments, tombs and
medals. Some idea Of the character of the
work may be formed from the statement
that il mas occupied the editors and large
staff OF writers for nearly three years, in
addition to special contributions from
almost all the most illustrious Of living
American authors, and has cost the publish
ers fully $3.50, 600. 1t will be sold only to
subscribers, through Mr.. T. X. Oglesby,
manager for D. Appleton & Co., Atlanta,
Ga.
The MORNING NEWS has received volume
XLVII. of the Commercial and Financial
Chronicle and Hunts Merchants Maya
zine. It contains the weekly numbers from
July TO December, 1883, inclusive, neatly
bound, and ready for the library OF the
merchant or business man. II contains al
the leading facts pertaining to tho industrial