The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06
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Belford Company, 1922 East Eighteenth
street, New York, publishers. Paper, 50
cents. This is very readable volume and
one that, to most readers, will be found
very attractive The thought is fresh aud
vigorous, aud the presentation of the ideas
bright and breezy.
The New SOUTH. By NJ. B. Hillyard.
The Manufacturers Record Company, Bal
timore, Nd, publisher. This is an ele-
gantly bound volume, and the typographical
work is superb. 1t is description of the
southern states, each state being noted
separately, its distinctive features and most
salient characteristics being given. The in
formation which the volume contains has
been gathered from authoritative sources,
and is very valuable.
MAGAZINES.
The contributors to the October Maya
zine Of american History present a rare
combination of eminence in the scholarly
world. The number opens with a paper on
the Sources and Guarantees Of National
Progress" by Rev. DR.. r. S. Storrs of
Brooklyn. The second valuable paper, en-
titled THE American Flag and John Paul
Jones'" is from the pen or Prof. Theodore
W. Dwight of the Columbia law school,
New York. ''Southold and Her Homes
and Memories" one of Mrs. Lambs bright
entertaining articles, is illustrated with
antique dwellings of one of the oldest towns
on tue continent. Magazine of American
History, 743 Broadway, New York
Noticeable in the October st. Nicholas
is tine article Through a Detective Camera,
written by Mr.. Black, the weil-known anna
teur, and illustrated with characteristic bits
of child life. Frederic Villiers, the famous
English war correspondent, tells of his mar
row escape from asphyxia, because of a
copper brazier" containing crude charcoal
used in warming an inn room at a Servian
hotel. Mr.. Villiers' forcible and peculiar
drawings fully illustrate his text. A real
juvenile story is "Betty's By and By" in
which Julie Lppmann tells a needless
heroine's experiences i'll that great rendez-
vous of procrastination. Mr.. Bensells
quietly humorous drawing shows the youth
full postponers engaged in squaring their ac-
counts. Another story, with sly moral
administered in well-favored medium, is
THE Gwynnes' Little Donkey" by Kate
Woodbridge Michaelis. The Century Com
pany, Union Square, New York.
With its October number the Century
completes its twentieth year; with this
number also Mr.. jefferson completes hi
autobiography. The final chapter is per-
haps the most valuable OF all; especially is
this true of the observations which the
writer makes on his art, its study and prac-
tice. For the opening paper the number
has Prof Darwin's essay on meteorites and
stellar systems which possesses value as an
outcome of original study. DIR. Edward
Eggleston's paper on out-of-the.way place
in Savoy has charms of its own and is en-
bellished by the pencil of Joseph Pencil
Mrs. Mason has another of her attractive
papers on French salon women, aud she
will write by request supplementary one
and perhaps two on Mines. Recamier, De
Stael and Roland. American women who
have done something in literature afford a
theme for Helen Gray Cone, who writes Of
the whole American period, early as well a
late The Century Company, Union
Square, New York.
The October number of the North Amer
tcon Reoie,U contains an article by
George D. Eldridge, secretary of the Ma
tional Life and Maturity Association. on
Assessment Life Insurance" Mr.. Eldridge
explains the principle on which life insur-
ance is effected through such organizations
as the Royal Arcanum, the Legion of Honor
and other organizations of a like character.
1.-THE Peculiarities of the South" are set forth
in an interesting and instructive name err
by Prof n. S. Shaler of Harvard. The
Hon. Andrew d. White has an article on
1.-THE Future of American Universities. :"
The Rt. Hon. John Morley replies to Mr..
Balfour's late Reuie,O article on the Irish
land bill This article, representing the
opinion of the bill held by English liberals,
completes discussion of this important sub
ject such as has taken place in no other
periodical in the world, the Irish view hav-
ing been expounded by G. S. Parnell in
the June number and the conservative view
by Mr.. Balfour in the July number. North
American Review, No. 3 East Fourteenth
street, New York