The National tribune., 1890-04-10

book is gracefully written, intensely interest
ing, and shows the writer to be keen observer
as well as courageous woman.
MIRIAM, THE AVENGER; OR, THE BRIDE
OF AN HOUR. BY Mrs. E. ID. t. N. Southworth.
Published by II. b. Peterson 81 Co., Philadep hia
Pa. Price IS cents.
OUR ASIATIC COUSINS. BY Mrs. A. II. Leon
owens. Published by d. Lothrop Co., Boston.
Price Sl50.
The author discourses Familiarity and enter
tainingly of the customs, traditions, religions,
characteristics, of the Eastern people of to-day
and Of by gone times, and the book will be read
by old as well as young with unhagging in
terest. 1t is history, travel biography anu
social criticism, and in tone apprecative. chart
table and sympathetic. In its perusal our
mental horizon is widened, and we come to lcok
upon the peoples across the sea in different
light, with better understanding of their
needs, their aims, the scope of their ideas, their
surroundings, and their influence, past and
present, upon civilization and the world at
large.
LAST LOVE. BY Georges Ohnet. Published
by j. H. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. Price 80
cents
"A Last Love" is quite as vigorous and alb
sorbing as CDR. Rameau," and deals with far
nobler characters. The translation is very we'll
done.
ERLACH COURT. Translated from the German
of ossip Schubn by Mrs. A. l.. Wister Pub
lished by J. b. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia
Price 81 .25.
Mrs. Wister's transations are well and favor
ably known. She is perhaps the most popular
and satisfactory translator of German fiction
whom we have, and her choice of stories is
always good. The present novel is well con-
structed in plot; rs for the personnel the youth
full and worldly wise old General; Stacy, the
arch one; the blue-stocking Baroness, and
her gentle. womanly daughter, in strong con-
trnst to herself must all appeal to the reader in
their distinctness and reality.
Magazines.
The April Magazine of american History Is
notable for the timeiness of its topics and the
clever style in which they are treated. Tho
opening paper by the editor conducts tho reader
into fresh and untrodden field, and no one
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to lay the periodical aside without making the
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