The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-24
BOOK NOTICES.

A LITTLE RADICAL By Jeanette II. Wal
worth. Bedford Company, publishers, 1872
East Eighteenth street, New York. Paper, 80
cents.
This is one of Belford's American Novel
Series.
| ROANOKE OF ROANOKE HALL. BY Malcolm Bell.
Bedford, Clarke & Company, publishers, 1922
East Eighteenth street, New York.
This is very entertaining story, and is
certain to win fair share of popular favor.
RoTHERMAL; Story of Lost Identity. By Louis
Reves Harrison. The American News Com
pany publishers agents Paper, so cents.
This is gather interesting sorry.
AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS. William Cullen
Bryant. By John Bigelow; Houghton, Milf
lin & Co, Boston. Cloth, S12j.
This is charmingly written biograph-
ical sketch of the life of William Cullen
Bryant. The writer was intimately asso-
| ciated with Mr.. Bryant on the New Yuri
| Erening Pot, and was, therefore, well
qualified to give true portraiture of Mr..
Bryant'S character.
MAGAZINES
Belfords Magazine for March contains
great variety of interesting and valuable
matter. The novel, "The Snake and the
Dove,n is well worth reading. The editorials
| are strong and the miscellany excellent.
Belford Company, New York
The March Vide At0aks opens with a
C armlng biography in miniature by Mrs
Frances A. Humphrey, of "The Beautiful
Emily Marshall" famous young belle of
Old Boston. Among the illustrated arti les
are animals at School, " by Eleanor Lewis,
and Among the Date Palms" by Frances
h. Throop, VITA her own drawings, made
in Africa recently. Poor Lady Ursula"
by Lucia Beverley, is a true story Of the
fate of young Englishwoman who came
to Maine in the early says. ''The Collie
that Kicked Up will delight little people,
and young and old will read with interest
Miss Poulsson's early America in Clay"
which shows how successful and really
necessary kindergarten work is in all
schools for the blind. d. Lothrop Company,
Boston.
The March number of Scribnel's contains
a great deal of unusually interesting mat
ter. The first of Benjamin Ellis Martins
papers, entitled "In the Footprints of
Charles Lamb" appear in this number.
Kirk Munro" who has spent many win
tiers among the Florida Seninoles, in an
article, describes the immense turban
which is the universal masculine head-dress
and Distinguishing badge of that tribe
Harold Frederic's serial, "ln the Valley"
contains vivid account Of Gen. Montgom-
ery's night attack on Quebec in IT'S Octave
Thanet's four-part story, "Expiation,"
gives picture of life on an isolated Arkan-
sas plantation, during the months immedia-
tely after the close of the war, when the
region was terrorizsd by guerillas
Prof. William James, Of Harvard, has an
article on hypnotism, entitled 'The Hidden
Self" Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
Prof. Boyesen's novelle5te in the March
Cosmopolitan, "a Candidate for Divorce
has many realistic scenes from young
ladies' boarding school, and aims to show
the calamitOus results from much of the
prevailing feminine education. 1t is strongly
illustrated by six drawings from G.. ID. Glib
son and by j. Wells Champney's painting,
''In the Green Room of Boarding School,"
Two timely articles are Easter in Jerusa-
lem,n by Frank G.. Carpenter, with a pro-
fusion of illustrations. and "Browuings
Place in Literature" by the well-known
Browning lecturer, Emily Shaw Forman.
Capt. Daniel Morgan Taylor furnishes an
interesting article on 1.-THE Militia" illus
trated by Harry Ogden, und Col. Charles
Chaille-Long gives a remarkable deScrip-
tion of THE Desert" with several striking
engravings. Another traveller, VIM. H.
Glider, collects his observations of "SIgnal
Codes, Savage and Scientific comparing
the methods OF signal telegrapny among the
Esquimaux, the indians, the Siamese and
the Army. Berlin, the City of the Kai-
SER" by Mary Stuart Smith, is the leading
paper, and 'The Evolution of the Gondola,"
by Herbert Person, illustrated by the au-
thor, shows the transformations III that pic
turesque Venetian craft. Fifth avenue.
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