Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-10
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Golden Days of 49.-Kirk Munroe has written another of his soul-stirring stories in "The Golden Days of '49." It tells of the adventure of Linn Halstead, who, driven from home, turned his eye toward the gold region. The plot is vivid and thrilling. It tells of a conspiracy and robbery of the young man, of his desperate escape, of the apprehension of the villains, and of his again meeting his partner. His motto of 'Do your level best in everything you undertake, and you'll come out all right" served him we'll. The last chapter finds him wealthy man and married to charming young lady that he had met in his adventurous days. The book is finely illustrated. It is for sale by Judd the bookseller. Publishers, Dodd, Mead & Co.,. New York.
 "Withln the Enemy's Lines'' ia the second of the Blue and Gray series by that we'll known and popular author, Oliver Optic. It is hardly necessary to commend anything that he is author of, his name is always . guarantee of most interesting story. The scenes of this book are connected with the war of the rebellion, although the work does not rise to the dignity of history. The author has endeavored to make as high-toned mer on one side in that war as on the other, with the same moral sentiment in the one party as the other, and to exhibit their only differ
 
 disunion. For sale by Judd the bookseller. Publishers, Lee & Shepard, Boston.
 Life of John Davis-The story of the Worlds exploration is always attractive, but especially as in the story of the life of John Davis, the navigator, who discovered the Davis' straits, as told by Clements B. Mark ham. keen interest js naturally taken in the personality of men who have dared to f0roa fhofr xuov into fha nnEnoyn and CD unveiled the face of mother earth. MT. Markham has brought ont Davis' personality; he tells the story of his life and in full de- tail what he did for the exploration of the world. This is one of book on discoveries, which, when completed, will form bioRra- phical history of geographical history. For sale by Judd the bookseller. Publishers, Dodd, Wood & Co.,, New York.
 With Guage and Swallow, Attorneys- This is by Albion w. Tourgee, and is the TO- nance of law office. It is the first book of the kind that has yet appeared, and it will undoubtedly take we'll. The danger attend ing any attempt to use the material the law yer has in hand regarding fiction is in the case of layman. lack of knowledge; on the part of the practitioner, too great technicality. The layman's ideas of @ la Hyer's life are un- usually absurdly incorrect, and his notions of legal procedure ludicrously inexact. On the other hand, the lawyer who enters the field of fiction is in constant danger of giving too much attention to the nioeties of practise or demonstration of theory, which, though they may be enjoyable to his brethren of the bar, are to degree incomprehensible and wearisome to the general reader. Mir. Tour gee has written romance which cannot fail to be fully as interesting to the general read CT as to the lawyers. For sale by Judd the bookseller. Publishers, The J. P, Lippincott Go, Philadelphia.
 Marie Bashkirtsetf, the Journal of a Young Artist, has been translated from the French by Mary J. Serran, with illustrations. In this journal science and literature, social questions, love are treated with all the cynie- ism of Machiavelli and the naivete of an ardent and enthusiastic girl. Pictures are traced that reflect the vivid hues, the lumin- ous atmosphere, the life, the movement, the variety of France, Spain and Italy. With a nature that was profoundly religious, and Q spirit that was essentially skepticsl, with ambition to conquer the universe and a heart that longed for affection, Marie Bash kirtseff has left her contribution to the liter- ature of humanity these confessions, which no one who has mind to think or heart to feel can read unmoved. The author says, "The record of woman's life, written down day by day without any attempt at concealment, | as if no one in the world were ever to read 1t, | yet for the purpose of being read, is alwaye 1 interesting, for am certain that I shall be l found sympathetic, and write down every. | thing, everything, everything. Otherwise why should I writea Besides, it will very l soon be seen that have concealed nothing For sale by Judd the bookseller. Publishers Cassell & Co.,, New York.