The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
BOOK NOTICES.

ALDEN's MANIFOLD CYcLoPEDIA. Volume 10,
Homage-Infancy. John B. Alden Publisher,
New York.
1t was apparent from the first that this
was to be the cyclopedia for 1.-The people,"
and each succeeding volume empha-
sizes the great superiority of the
work for popular use. 1t is remark
ably comprehensive The fields Of litera-
ture, science, art, and of all knowledge are
thoroughly CLEANED. The topics are ably
treated, many illustrations are given, and
vast amount of information Is condensed
into small space. The articles are written
by experts in their various lines and are
carefully and skillfully edited. The results
of the latest discoveries and inventions ap-
pear, many of the subjects being brought
down to June, 1889, and some even later.
JOE BENTLY. NAVAL CADET. By II. H. Clark,
U. S. Navy. D. Lothrap company, Boston;
cloth.
This is lively drama of man-of-war in
which action, sentiment, pathos and humor
have each pleasing and proper place. Joe
Bently, having just been graduated from
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, was as
signed to the United States steamer Day
break. His adventures on this vessel dur
ing her stay in the North Atlantic waters
and her subsequent cruise in the Pacific,
where she finally foundered, with loss of
nearly all on board, make a tale of intense
but perfectly heathful interest. Some of
the Incidents are exceedingly dramatic,
most of all perhaps, the laying of the tor
pedo under the flag ship of the squadron
during the sham sea fight. The bravery
displayed by Joe on this and similar occa-
| sions, his generosity and conscientious at
tention to duty, made him in short time
the most popular young officer of the Day
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aptly blended with entertainment.
LETTERS FROM HE'LL. Translated by A. c.
Kallmyer, with preface by George Macdonald,
LII. D. Hunter, Robinson & Co, East 18th
street, New York. Paper, 80 cents
This is a rather startling book-at least
the title of it is. George Macdonald, in his
introduction, speaks highly of it, although
he points out many defects in it. 1t is a
| translation from the German, and is very
similar to a book which appeared in Den
mark eighteen years ago. One critic says
| that 1.-The chapters are a succession of weird,
| often thrilling recitals, which embody the
| confessions of an accomplished society man,
and the picture of harvest reaped in the
| hereafter as a result of these days of labor
| in the fields of pleasure and self-indugepce.
| Some of the paragraphs and letters are
word sketches of a completed and past life /;
1
degree which accords with all which is
mortal passing within the scope of an
everyday vision. They incorporate the
retrospections of the soul that has been
swept into eternity. Others-and they are
of a greater Misunderstanding prefgure
what may come when day is spent"
THE SECRET WAY. By Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Illustrated by Frank 0. Small. Boston: D.
Lathrop Co. Price SO.
The reading world will be glad to vel
come, in this new and very beautiful form,
one of the finer poems whose unworthy fate
it has been to be overlooked by the present
generation. Its story is not unlike
| that of Norris Glove is Enough" the
central motif of both being a hove born of
| the vision of dream, and followed through
wild chance and brave adventure to q
happy issue. Whether or no we agree with
the writer of the appendix that the Secret
| Way" is the best of the Lost Tales" and
with the grand tragedy in mind of the bar
barian who "slew temptation" in Staying
the woman he passionately loved, our agree
ment Is hesitant; there is no doubt this
fine, ringing and beautiful old story is
richly worth reproducing, and in its new
| form should be one of the most popular gift
books of the season. The illustrations by
Frank o. Small add greatly to the value of
the book. OF the full-page plates, the
prayer at the altar and the desolate mid
night plain where 'sole king reigned
DEATH" are finely imaginative The vol
| 11me aDDears in an edition de LUIe