Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-13

| nately named, as only a small part, and that not
the best is devoted to this subject ESSAY
Writing Made Easy" is the first matter which
is dealt with; chapel talks on the Development
of Character follow; and we are told How
and What to Read" before we get to the "con-
versation" part Teachers will fnd help and
suggestion in this sensible little manual. A. 3.
Barnes & Co., the publishers, have colored the
edges with tlnge of very pronounced orange
red.
The moral of Osborne OF Arrochar Nee q
Shepard; ]. X Weldin 4 Coz is never talk
behind door, unless you know who is on the
other side. That is suggestion in the art
Of conversation which Mrs. Monroe omitted
mention of, but it is pretty good general rule.
When you talk about people always imagine
them Just behind the door. Osborne of AFRO
char failed to observe this rule, and made some
quite uncompnmentary remarks about Miss
Clyde's family which Miss Clyde, on the other
side of the door, heard with emphatic disap-
probation. And. by-and-by, when Mr.. Osborne
of Arrochar came to ask a very important ques-
ton of Miss Clyde, that young woman,
remembering that unlucky criticism, returned
such an answer as made the unfortunate young
gentleman wish for a moment that his tongue
could touch the fatal dish Of the supreme court
of the Incas, or that some other equally dread
full fate could befall it. However, after much
interesting trouble in the shape of separation.
",
everything comes out all right when Amanda
M. Douglas story arrives at its happy con-
clusion.
~
Joan of Arc, with an expanse Of very yellow
hair floating in the breeze, bestriding brown
horse with black tail ard brandishing dan
gerous looking sword, has halo formed about
her head by the big o of the title The Maid Of
Orleans q. B. Lippincott 4 Co.; J, R. Weldin
& 70 Tn add IN r1ia
the cover there are others inside-the house
at Domremy, the face Of Charles VII with
very demure expression upon it. several battle
scenes, and dramatic representation of the
heroine's death at the stake. W. A Davenport
Adams has written an interesting account of
the life, achievements and misfortunes of poor
Jeanne dare. The story Of that kfe will never
want for readers. The voices of the angels and
the voices of the war-trumpets, saints and
scoundrels soldiers. priests and politicians
mingle most curiouslv in it. It is history and
romance together. Mr.. Adams is an expert in
the art Of making small books out of large
ones, and he has brought together here from
many sources much that will instruct and at
tract the reader.
''Of all my books this is undoubtedly the one
which cost me the greatest trouble to put into
living form; the one that germinated longest
in me, nursed IN my BRAIN" That is what
Alphonse Daudet said Of this pathetic story,
Kings in EEile, which Rand, McNalIy q Co.
send us, in Virginia Champlin's translation
made ten years ago. Daudet has given us
description of the study in which he made this
touching romance, half fiction, half history,
part fact and all truth; it was 'In the depths Of
great courtyard where patches OF green
grass cut up into squares the unequal pave
ment. in a little pavilion invaded by the sheen
of Virginian creeper, forgotten bit Of the
Hotel Richelieu." 1t was melancholy sitting
for the story, as he confesses. but the study
and the story fitted perfectly. Poor royalty,
what an awkward, Out-of-place, undignifeu,
pathetic figure it is, without any throne to sit
on.