The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-12-18
RECENT LITERATURE.

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more than hundred new illustrations from
the skillful pen Of Thomas sMcIlvaine. repro
ducei in photO-engravure on fine calendered
paper, on which a large type stands out clearly.
The binding is in white and gold, with cycla-
men blossoms on a gold background IL is a
companion volume TO their edition Of Lucille"
Issued last year.
A HOMBURG BEAUTY. by Mrs. Edward Ken
9srd Published .e d by :. Z LippineOtt Co, PLila-
THE BURMAH TREASURE Novel. BY
Stephen Paul Sheffield. Published by Rand,
MeNaly q Co, Chicago. Price 80 cents.
HOW To BE A PASTOR BY Rev Theodore T..
Cuyler, ID; -. Published by the Baker & Taylor
Co, New York. Price % cents
Few pastors are more famous "a such than
DIR. Cuyler, who touches with a skilful hand i'm
his Characteristic pointed and entertaining
style the varied relations Of the Pastor to his
flock.
AUNT DOROTHY. AN OLD VIRGINIA PLAN
TATlON STORY. illustrated handsomely. BY
Margaret j. Preston, author Of For Loves
sake Colonial Ballads" etc. Published by
hnson ID. +. Randolph d Co, New York Price
60 cents.
LITTLE HE AND SHE Gtaee Denis Ii,chheId.
Published by ID. Loihrop' Co., Boston. Price
This is Miss LitchfeIds first attempt at q
child's story. But it is success in every way,
tale will thank Miss Litchfeld for introducing
them to such charmingly natural and uncon-
VcntiOnal creatures as the Little lie and She"
The illustrations by Meynclle are fully in keep
ing with the story.
OUR EARLY PRESIDENTS: THEIR WIVES
AND CHILDREN. by Mrs. Harriet TAYLOR
Upton. Published by ID. Lothrop Co Boston.
Price 50.
This is essentially Christmas book. and a
more 0lnhOrnfplv urpnnrpd hos of
reached our desk. Bound in old gold and
brown, the effect is rich and striking The
seven Presidents, from George Washington 10
Andrew Jackson, whose families the author
has admirably photographed, are known as the
" historic Presidents" thUse concerned in the
early making of the American Republic
Family letters of the various Presidential
households, their private records and diaries,
their personal TecollectiOns and researches
have furnished for the most part material for
the work. The portraits and illustrations
which show the most careful and highest class
OF work. and of which there are a great many,
arc directly from the original paintings and
family relics. The descendants and representa-
lyes OF the various families have most heartily
and ably co-oporated in tic preparation of this
very creditable work and 50 thorough has been
the personal revision and substanIiatiUn that
the entire statement may be relied on for ae-
curacy.
SUNDERLAND. BY Margaret Macdonald Pull
man. Published by Lee Shepard. Boston
beautiful book for the table, one of the
artistic pieces of work for which Lee * Shepard
is SO justly noted. The numerous illustrations
tell US Of hills in sunshine; meadows with per-
TUNED air. brooks fringed with Towering
grasses; the music Of quiet waters, and the
breath Of tho pine woods-nature in its hap
piest aspects. The book Is picture gallery in
itself the work OF the engraveT being specially
delicate and finished. For lovers Of mapniG-
cent books no better holiday present could be
selected.
TIsAYAC OF THE YOSEMITE By NJ. b. NJ
Toland Published by J. b. Lippincou Co, Phil
Edelphia. Price $3.50.
An Indian legend retold Ia rhythmic meas.
ure. The Observation-Disclosures from
drawings in black aud Nhite-are many and
choice, appropriate to the text and the work
OF Hermann Simon, Henry Sandman, II. Boil
ton Jones and Frederick Dielman. A superb
illuminated half-title is the work of viii r.
Low, and the title-paga il reproduced from
modelling in clay by John J. Boyle The bind
ing Of cloth is in white aud gold, aud tho
whole effect Of the book is decidedly elegant.
THE GLADIATORs. A Novel. By G. J. WHITE
Melville. Published by Rand, McNaIly & Co,
Chicago. Price 20 cents.
THE ROMANCE OF A sPAuI. By Pierre Lott
Published by Rand, Mentally & Co.. Chicago.
Magazines and Notes.
Rights aud Duties of Married Women in
the Use Of Money" by Charlotte Emerson
Brown, President OF the Federation Of Clubs.
IN the business HOHdIis Journal is full OF ex.
ceilent suggestions in regard 20 the systematic
management Of household affairs.
Volume 40 Of the CettlHg Mdg1zine has been
sent out IN book form, and will DO welcomed
HaHH-H h. L
magazine IN permanent shape. Ii contains the
last half Of Amelia Barrs Friend Olivia
aud also OF the " Autobiography Of Joseph
Jefferson, The Women OF the French Salons -
The Anglomaniacs," and other serials Also
complete stories by John Elliott Curran. Vir-
einia Frazer Boyle, Sarah Orne Jewett. Grace
DEMO Litchield, Anne Page, ATIo Bates, Viola
hosebor0, Elizabeth w. Champney, Richard
Malcolm Johnston, Octave Thauct aud 6 l..
Blackwell; practical papers on a host Of inter.
estlng topics; biographical papers by distin-
quished authors; articles by war prisoners:
poems by Richard Henry StoddaTd Helen
Thayer Hutchinson, John Vance Cheney.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Hay, Charles
Henry Webb Frank Dempster Sherman. Louise
Chandler Moulton, Edith NJ. Thomas, Walt
Whitman and many others; Opcn Letters.
Topics Of the Time Bric-a-brac. etc. Price 81
Frederick A. Stokes & Co., New York, pub
fishers OF fine books and dainty pamphlets.
have gotten out beautiful little chrome by
Edmund NJ. Ashe, entitled Match Of the
hOkeville Tennis Club The drawing il
spirited and the cOlOTing fine
The American Academy Of Political and
Social Science at Philadelphia Is doing UNIQUE
and valuable work in Publishing material of
great value 10 students Of economies aud poll.
tics. IL Is making specially just now of the
Railroad Problem in all It's ramfcations. The
July number OF its proceedings contained q
full account OF the reform in railway passen-
ger tariffs recently introduced into Hungary,
The January number viii contain full ac- ]
count OF the system Just introduced into
Austria. The work Of the Academy is all the
more valuable on account OF its strictly scion
tiGc character.
S. Nicholas for 1890 has appeared in two
handsomely-bound volumes, profusely Illus
tratcd. Price 81. IL contains: Serial stories
by Wan. o. Stoddard, Mrs. @. V. Jamson, Lieut..
Robert ii. Fletcher, John III. Jewett and Nora
Perry; short stories by II. H. Boyesen, Mark
Twain, Mary T. wilkins, Sophie SWEET, Julian
Hawthorne, Tudor jerks, Alice Maud Ewell,
Margaret w. Bsland. Mary Hall0ck Foote, l..
Clarke Davis, w. J. Henderson, Richard Hard
ing Davis, Frederick YillieTs, and others.
There are articles Of instruction: and enter
tainment articles on outdoor sports biogra-
phical papers, poems and verses by Mary +.
wilkins, Helen Thayer Hutchinson, Laura L.
Richards, Harriet Prescott Spoford, Eva Og-
den, John Vance Cheney, Samuel Minturn
Peck Mrs. $. NJ. b. Piatt, Edith NJ. Thomas
Sydney Dayre, Malcom Douglas, Tudor jerks,
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