The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


| Scrfbner's Etagazine for August.
Seff6aer's Magazine for August is q
fiction number containing six Short
stories, five of them illustrated. as
| is usual in this magazine, number OF
entirely new writer's are brought for.
ward with stories OF striking origin
ality. They show great variety oil
| scene and subject, and include a news
paper story, tale of army life, a Cali
| fornia story, Maine woods story, and
| New York city story, besides MIR.
Burners capital burlesque moderni-
cation of Sterne's Sentimental
Journey. There is also the Begin
ming of part second of the remarkable
anonymous serial, Jerry which
brings the hero to manhood and opens
his adventurous career. In this new
phase of the novel the writer exhibits
virile characteristics which were not
demanded in the pathetic descriptions
OF Jerry's youth. The fiction idea of
the number is further carried out in
the very richly Illustrated article by
the Blashfields on 1.-THE Paris OF the
Three Musketeers. y The veteran
London publisher and close friend of
Stanley, AIr. Edward Marston, tells,
with striking illustrations made at
Cairo, How Stanley Wrote his
Book" There are also poems by
Thomas Bailey Aldrieh and Andrew
Lang.
Among the notable artists repre-
scented in the illustrations are j. III.
TwachtInan, G. d. Gibson, e. H..
Blashfield, Kenyon Cox, Joseph Bell
and Frank Fowler.
The pictures in the leading article
are among the best that Mr. Blash-
field has made, reproducing the cos
tunes, architecture, furniture, etc., of
the Paris of Louis Kills time {1027-
1860. The text is spirited and
picturesque description of the life of
that epoch. The whole article recon
structs the background of Dumas
great romance with pen and pencil,
and makes very real O distant period
and people.
Mr. Marston's How Stanley Wrote
His Book, is near view OF the great
explorer at work at Cairo, giving an
intimate idea of his personality as it
appears to one of his Oldest friends.
Joseph Bell, the English artist, who
prepared many of the sketches for
Stanley's book at Cairo under his per-
sonal direction, illustrates the article
WAt44 Il ltolltbcA Vi pictures VI t0btli1iS}
at work. Several pages of the ex-
plorer's note books are reproduced in
fac-simile.
II. G. Bunner contributes a continu-
alton of Sterne's Sentimental
Journey. writing in the quaint man
ner of that author "a Sentimental
Annex describing visit to modern
New York.
Richard Harding Davis, son of
Rebecca Harding Davis, has written
newspaper story, entitled Gal
legher, in which, for the first time,
the much-abused office boyn gets his
dues, and turns out q hero. G. ID.
Gibson illustrates this story, as we'll
as the tale of a New York city house
in midsummer which, by curious
misunderstanding, becomes the board
ing place of "A New England
Ingenue.n This is the beginning of a
very pretty comedy of errors, which
| develops into love story. The author
is John Seymour Weed, New York
lawyer.
The enlisted man. has not often
| appeared as the hero of American
army stories, though Rudyard Kip
ling has recently made him famous in
his sketches of Anglo-Indian life.
Sergeant Core by Leroy Armstrong
| is, however, a very truthful sketch of
| life at Western army post as it turns
around the love affair of an enlisted
man and the Colonelis Spanish Ameri-
can nurse girl. 1t is illustrated by
w. L. Metealf