The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-11
BOOK NOTICES.

The OLD HOMESTEAD, by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
T. b. Peterson & Bros. Philadelphia. Paper
25 cents.
This is a superb story of quaint New Eng
land farm life in the vein now SO popular
both in fiction and on the stage. With an
absorbing plot, effective incid ents and Guar
acters entirely true to nature, it holds at
tention as very few stories do. 1t posse ses a ii
that powerful attraction which clingS 10 a
romance of home, the family fireside, and
Q people who gather about it. Simplicity
and strength are happily combined in $
pages, and no one can begin it without de-
string to read it through.
The MORNING NEWS has received the
Financial ReUiet0 for the past year. 1t is
published at the Office of the Commercial
and Financial Chronicle by Messrs. VIM
B. Dana & CO., 102 William street, New
York city. 1t is book of $50 pages, nicely
bound, and contains a retr spect of last
years business, giving statistics in each
department of finance and commerce. 1t
has also the investors supplement bound
up with it. 1t is a book that all business
men should posses for reference The
price of the ReUielO Isl 81, or to subscribers
of the Commercial and Financial ChrOn-
icIe, Sl.50.
phonse Daudet; Rand, McNany & 90 PUB
lishers 40 to l54 Monroe street, Chicago;
Paper, so cents.
This story is said to be one of the most
successful ever issued il Paris, 10000 cop
les of it having been sold within a month
after its appearance. Daudet draws COM
mon boaster, born liar-and the inimiUa-
Die character of "Tartarn" tickles the soul
with what Daudet would call an "indomita-
bic laughter; he draws the company of
august immortas, and one sees the humOr
beneath the quaint costumes designed by
David.
The DESMOND HUNDRED. By James g. Austin
Tichnor & Co., Boston. Paper, 81 cents.
This is a new volume Of the Tichnor
parer series. 1t possesses a peculiar interest
at this time as religious study, from the
fact that its chief characters are ritualist
priests, as clearly marked and carefully
drawn as Newcombe in Robert Elsmere.n
1t is story of marked individuality and
iuthralling interest, whose scenes are laid
in such interesting regions as New England
and the Bahamas.
THE CHINESE AND THE CHINESE QUESTION by
James A. Whitney, l. L. D., Tebbals Book
Company, New York.
Those who de ire to get an interesting
glimpse of the Chinese, their work, institu-
lions, and their character AZ a people, aud
their place and influence in former times
among the nat ons and races of the earth ,
and also what is known as the Chinese
question, will find this volume just what
they want.
The STORY OF MEXICO. BY Susan Hale. G. 2.
Putnams sons, New York, cloth.
This work possesses special interest at
this time in view OF the close relatio $
which are being established between this
country aud Mexico by means of railroads.
One who reads this book and makes him
self master OF ITS contents will have pretty
fair knowledge Of the chief events in tne
history Of Mexico The history Of Mexico
reads Ikea romance.
The MORNING NEWS acknowledges tho
receipt Of the second annual report Of the
interstate commerce commission through
Commissioner Walter S. Bragg Of Ala
bama
The HANDS OF A CLOCK; a Novel. BY William
NJ Runkel The American Publishing House,
New York. Paper, 25 conts
This is an interesting little story, well
suited for an Idle hour.