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/ s6,sfory Of New Orleans. By W.
NV n. HoucoMBH, NJ. d. Publish
e1 bv !. b. LPPrEcoTT & Co., Phila.
delphia. For sale by WEsr, JoHv-
gTos & Co. Price 81.
DR. HoLcoMBs has wearied tompora-
rily Of writing metaphysical and theolo-
eical works and produced n romance.
The moGf is the elucidation OF murder
mystery by the aid Of clairyoyants in
stead of detectives. The feat Is Success
fully accomplished. OF course, though
many oi the mediumistic performances
will tax the credulity of the reader no
little. The story is fairly interesting,
but would be more so il the author had
not exposed his plot premsturely. There
is a love affair with It's usual gradations
of misery and happy deeoucmen'. The
race question is also treated, though not
in O way to be of much assistance to-
wards its solution. The northern mar
ket is catered to chiefly, although the au-
thor is a citizen of New Orleans. The
hero. a northern man, is a paragon Of
perfection and pushes his chiyairy 20 far
rs to fight a duel and even 10 propose to
marry tho heroine when she is supposed
to have negro blood in her veins.
Aamt Dorofiv. An Old Virginia Plan
tation Story. BY MARGARET >. PREs-
roy. Published by A. ID. +. RAN
poLpH e. Co., New York. For sale by
WEST, JOHNSTON x Co. Price 60cents,
illustrated.
Mrs Preston needs no introduction
10 Yirginian readers. Her poems have
delighted and consoled thousands. This
prose brochure IS a charming picture OF
life in the Old Dominion in the bad old
times "befo' do wah." Aunt Do
rothy is a typical Yirginian matron, OF
the energetic managing sort, who even
on her supposed death-bed exhibits her
"ruling passion" in giving minute di-
rections for her funeral service. She
doesn't die, however, for, as Uncle Reu-
ben, the self-ordained plantation preach
or. said. "sLe nebber could be happy
less she be mansgin', an dar'd be no
managin' foh her in hebben, 'kase so
many dar hab 'sperience," On her re-
covery the proposed funeral service was
turned into a thanksgiving one, which
was so successful that little Chinquapiu
Joe, bursting with good things.
wished that the "good Lord would
glib old Mis- jest sech grand fun'ral
ebbery yeah !" There Is a charm
ing love affair, in which the ques-
ton is successfully popped " through
Greek metaphor. The negro characters
are excellent and there is just enough Of
the negro dialect to season the dish
without repelling-an example which
some other writers would do we'll to fol-
low. Many more pretentious volumes of
the same character do not contain nearly
as much to delight the intelligent reader
as this little one does.
Bite Harmony: A Study of tho Bible
as a Whole. BY A. p. ADAMS, NJ. A.
Published by the Droweht Publishing
Company, Beverly, Mass. For sale by
J. W. RAKDoLPH & ENGLISH, Cloth,
81 paper 50c.
This, as its title purports, is n work
apparently contradictory ut
terances Of the Scriptures. The author
claims that the Bible is a harmonious
whole, and suggests a course of study to
sustain that view. He recklessly alleges
that as the result Of inconsistent interpre-
tation and insufficient research the Chris |
tian Church is to-day a spectacle of dis
cord, inconsistency, and failure" and |
that infdelity or Ingersollism, from the |
same cause, receives no adequate an
swer-" adequate, that is, for the |
We notice that the writer be-
longs to the number Of those who have |
the doctrine Of eternal pun
ishment, which he denounces as "a
SANDER upon God and most awful mis- |
OF His character" A
chapter is devoted to this subject.
Hon. 10 BE a Pastor. This little |
book by the Rev. THEODORE L. CUYLER,
ID. D., has much of interest TO the clergy |
and laity alike. Published by the Baker |
& Taylor Company, New York, and
for sale by the Presbyterian Committee /
Of Publication.
The Rich Mans Fool, a novel by /
ROBERT Q. GTvEs, author OF the
d" Millionaire Tramp" etc. LAIRD &
LEE, publishers, Chicago.
Last FoHies. A drama in five acts. BY
GEORGE MAsKoFP. Paper; price 20
cents. Kansas City, Mo. Hudson
Kimberly Publishing Company.
A publication intended to show that
prohibition does not prohibit"
IAy Name Is Woman. From the
French OF DUBEr DE LAToRFsr. BY
FRANK HOWARD HOWE, author OF "a
College Widow" &c. Paper, 75c.
Cloth, Sl.25. The Belford Company,
New York, publishers.
4 Homburg Beauty. A Novel BY
Mrs. EDWARD KENYARD. author Of "a
Crack County, lathe Girlin the Brown
Habit, etc. Philadelphia: j. b. Lip
pincott Company. Paper; price 30
cents.
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